entrepreneurship & regional development

Episode 136 – Mary Kathleen Burke – City of ‘social saints’: the role of place in driving impact entrepreneurship in Turin, Italy

Episode 136

This paper theorizes impact entrepreneurship (IE) in relation to place by examining dynamics at the individual, community, and organizational levels. While existing IE literature emphasizes entrepreneurship aimed at addressing grand challenges, it often adopts an aggregate view that overlooks how locally embedded entrepreneurs access and mobilize social and economic resources. We introduce a novel, multidimensional…

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Episode 135 – Diego Matricano – Innovative start-ups and local development: an investigation of the relevance of entrepreneurs’ age in rural vs. urban areas

Episode 135

Multi-faceted approaches are mandatory to advance entrepreneurship research. This is especially true when scholars investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on local development. In this case, scholars usually rely on the nexus ‘entrepreneurial profile/context’. In line with the above and the principles of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), a European policy aiming to…

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Episode 134 – Charbel Salloum – Global perspective on networking dynamics of entrepreneurs across migrant statuses: unravelling the role of the public vs. private spheres

Episode 134

This study investigates differences in entrepreneurial networking between entrepreneurs across migrant statuses (native-born, first-generation, and second-generation), focusing on how societal modes of incorporation – the policies and cultural attitudes that shape how newcomers integrate into a host country – influence these networks. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey of 15,123 entrepreneurs across…

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Episode 133 – Sebastian Barros – Summons from the past: spiritual calling in Indigenous entrepreneurship

Episode 133

In this article, we study 25 Mapuche entrepreneurs from Chile, exploring how their deep spiritual beliefs and values influence their entrepreneurial orientation, decision-making processes, and business results. Using qualitative methods, we found an ancestral calling that summoned Indigenous individuals to revitalize a distant past rather than pursue opportunities in the proximal future, thus distinguishing their…

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Episode 132 – Mark Loon – Standards for re-innovation in innovation-enabling business models of high-tech SMEs: a conceptual model of a capability-based view

Episode 132

This conceptual paper offers a research agenda in examining the role of standards for innovation in high-tech SMEs’ business models from a capability perspective. This paper aims to address the research question, how are SMEs using standards in a new environment of rapidly emerging technologies to produce innovations and what are the new directions for…

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Episode 131 – Ting Zhang – Empowering entrepreneurs: age, telework, and geographic context in transitioning to knowledge-based self-employment

Episode 131

This study investigates three pivotal factors influencing workers’ shift towards knowledge-based self-employment: the facilitation effect of telework, age-related modifications to this effect, and geographic influences, drawing from Self-Determination Theory, Procedural Utility, and the Job Demands-Resources Model. Pre- and post-pandemic teleworkers are categorized into four groups based on telework history: Never Teleworked, Newly Teleworked, Used to…

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Episode 130 – Constance Banc – The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs

Episode 130

Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) are changing as funding for traditional support structures is reduced and large corporations are running corporate accelerators (CAs). These new support organizations are struggling to survive and address challenges of legitimacy. However, research on EEs has not yet investigated the conditions of their existence from an ecosystemic perspective. Drawing on neoinstitutional theory…

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Episode 129 – Pauline Brunner – Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem

Episode 129

The aim of this article is to show how student entrepreneurs construct their social capital within the sub-ecosystem of student entrepreneurship. We conducted a single case study on the professional network of a cohort of students participating in an entrepreneurship programme in the city of Strasbourg in France. Analysis of their professional networks for their…

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Episode 128 – Thomas Cyron – Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn

Episode 128

Entrepreneurship can be a pathway to emancipation from social constraints and economic oppression. However, the stories of emancipatory entrepreneurship reveal that these pathways are as diverse and unique as entrepreneurs themselves. Inspired by Hermann Hesse, we explore this variation by conceptualizing emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn, a self-creating process of development that…

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Episode 127 – Juliana Chitac – Bricolentrepreneuring: A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania

Episode 127

Uncertainty, discrimination, and socioeconomic marginalization in host countries lead many refugees to entrepreneurial bricolage. Understanding their bricolage practices is crucial to designing policies and programmes to support refugee entrepreneurship, yet little is known about how refugees enact bricolage practices where institutional support is lacking, resources are constrained and where they contend with war trauma due to displacement….

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