Podcast: Authors

Episode 153 – Veronica Scuotto & Theofilos Tzanidis – Navigating international entrepreneurship while impacting regional development in the digital age

Episode 153
 00:17:12

The study explores how international enterprises navigate expansion in other markets simultaneously contributing to the regional development. Such international enterprises use digital platforms and disruptive technologies to transform their business models. Digital platform adoption and technological integration accelerate internationalization efforts and facilitate regional economic growth. A new theoretical framework is built upon international entrepreneurship orientation…

Read More

Episode 152 – Richael Connolly – Crafting resilience: reframing firm growth for artisan food entrepreneurs at farmers’ markets

Episode 152
 00:16:58

The everyday turn in entrepreneurship scholarship positions entrepreneurship as a social technology capable of driving regional change in turbulent times. We argue that the resilience of everyday entrepreneurs requires a reframing of firm growth. We explore this from the perspective of everyday artisan food entrepreneurs at farmers’ markets. Farmers’ markets as sites of grassroots resistance…

Read More

Episode 151 – Ana Cristina Dahik Loor – From faith to fortune? Religious entrepreneurs’ responses to institutional voids

Episode 151
 00:14:34

While religion is important to billions of people worldwide, research at its intersection with entrepreneurship is in its infancy. We add to this nascent stream through an abductive, qualitative study exploring how religious entrepreneurs address institutional voids to produce positive and/or negative outcomes through their ventures. Merging insights from structuration theory and religious agency from…

Read More

Episode 150 – Rafaela Gjergji – Transgenerational entrepreneurship in Italian family firms: a taxonomy of family successor profiles

Episode 150
 00:12:38

This study investigates how successors, by acting entrepreneurially, contribute to family firm transgenerational value creation. By focusing on the transgenerational value creation process, we investigate transgenerational entrepreneurship in family businesses under successor leadership. Employing a multiple case study approach, we analyse 15 Italian family firms, based on direct interviews, follow-ups, field observations, and approximately 300 historical…

Read More

Episode 149 – Anna-Katharina Schaper – Holding up the sky together? Family support dynamics and gender in entrepreneurship in China

Episode 149
 00:19:13

Previous efforts to integrate culture and gender into a comprehensive theoretical framework for family support in entrepreneurship have fallen short. This study aims to clarify the influence of gender and culture on family support for women entrepreneurs in a patriarchal society. We use a qualitative approach, conducting 25 semi-structured interviews with Chinese women entrepreneurs who…

Read More

Episode 148 – Michael Conger – Planting churches, growing identities: how religious entrepreneurship changes those who are called to it

Episode 148
 00:09:44

The growing subfield of religious entrepreneurship typically examines how faith impacts entrepreneurial outcomes, but much less work has examined the reverse. In this inductive study, we interview church planters, individuals engaged in forming a new religious organization that may or may not be connected to a broader Christian denomination, to understand how entrepreneurial action impacts…

Read More

Episode 146 – Ling Li – Worldview matters: exploring the interplay between Indigenous worldviews and entrepreneurial journeys – storytelling from Chile’s Mapuche

Episode 146
 00:13:00

While the research on Indigenous entrepreneurship (IE) has gained momentum, Indigenous worldviews, a key construct in understanding the distinctiveness of Indigenous people and their communities, remain underexplored. Drawing on narrative inquiry and graphic elicitation technique, this article examines how Indigenous worldviews shape and are shaped by the entrepreneurial journeys among urban Mapuche entrepreneurs from Chile….

Read More

Episode 145 – Clara Douaihy – Structure and dynamics of a precarious entrepreneurial sub-ecosystem in a developed country

Episode 145
 00:13:26

Entrepreneurial ecosystem research increasingly recognizes the importance of sub-ecosystems, yet their dynamics in contexts of precarity remain underexplored. This article introduces the concept of precarious entrepreneurial sub-ecosystems and examines how entrepreneurship unfolds under conditions of resource scarcity and social vulnerability in Montpellier, France. By mobilizing a complex adaptive systems perspective, we develop a multilevel model…

Read More

Episode 144 – Daniel Hjorth – Crafting social entrepreneuring: intra-sectional possibilities in responding to GBV

Episode 144
 00:24:31

The intersectional nature of gender-based violence (GBV) makes it unlikely that survivors can escape the socio-economic precarity that perpetuates this social ill. Current conceptualizations of the entrepreneurial process do not sufficiently account for the material constraints GBV survivors face in developing countries and/or in contexts of poverty, and as such, may not fully grasp their…

Read More

Episode 143 – Mary Joy Baloyo – ‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour

Episode 143

This article examines gendered household dynamics and the organization of labour in Entrepreneurial Households (EHs), using Glucksumann’s Total Social Organization of Labour theory (TSOL). It challenges the perception of EHs as neutral spaces and argues that analysing households provides a more nuanced understanding of the gendered dynamics in households where a member is formally self-employed…

Read More