Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 

About: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Entrepreneurship & Small business. It has an ISSN identifier of 0898-5626. Over the lifetime, 1024 publications have been published receiving 71011 citations. The journal is also known as: Entrepreneurship & regional development.

Entrepreneurial intentions: Applying the theory of planned behaviour

Abstract: Understanding and predicting new venture initiation requires research using theory-driven models that adequately reflect the complex perception-based processes underlying intentional, planned behaviours such as new venture initiation. We discuss exactly such a model, widely used in social psychology, and demonstrate its applicability to the entrepreneurship domain. Ajzen's intentions-centred ‘theory of planned behaviour’ is parsimonious, well grounded in theory, and robustly predicts a wide variety of planned behaviours. Intentions are the single best predictor of such behaviour, both conceptually and empirically. Intentions formation depends; on attitudes toward the target behaviour which, in turn, reflect beliefs and perceptions. Intentions-based models of entrepreneurial activity are compatible with existing research results and open new approaches to studying venture initiation. Intentions models allow us to better understand the impact of various antecedents of organizational emergence; identifying n...

Firm networks: external relationships as sources for the growth and competitiveness of entrepreneurial firms

Abstract: Inter-firm networks, as an inter-organizational form, are increasingly perceived as a model for entrepreneurial firm growth. We study egocentric networks of high-growth entrepreneurial firms in the IT industry and explore how these firms grow through the use of external relations and become competitive. Based on case study research, we identify that firms are using relations for a variety of purposes and that every firm has an individual relational mix. This relational mix changes with the development of the firms. While the relative importance of social and reputational networks decrease with the firms' development, co-opetition networks increase over time. Knowledge and innovation networks are a function of reputation and management capacity while the development of marketing networks depends on the firm's culture and management style. Both weak ties and strong ties are important for the growth of the firm since they fulfil different functions. Firm growth is determined by path-dependent relational capa...

Human capital, social capital, and innovation: a multi-country study

Abstract: The authors examine the effects of two forms of capital, i.e. human capital and social capital, on innovation at the country level. We use secondary data from the World Development Report on a country's overall human development to test for a relationship between human capital and innovation. We also use previous conceptualizations of social capital as comprising trust, associational activity, and norms of civic behaviour to test for relationships between these indicators of social capital and innovation using data from the World Values Survey. Unlike most previous studies that examined human and social capital within a given country, we develop and empirically test a theoretically grounded model that relates human and social capital to innovation at the societal level across 59 different countries, thus providing a more global view of the role of these two forms of capital in generating value. We find strong support for the positive relationship between human capital and innovation and partial support fo...

The multiple faces of social entrepreneurship: A review of definitional issues based on geographical and thematic criteria

Abstract: Social entrepreneurship has recently received greater recognition from the public sector, as well as from scholars. However, the lack of a unifying paradigm in the field has lead to a proliferation of definitions. Moreover, several approaches of the phenomenon, as well as different schools of thought, have emerged in different regions of the world. At first glance, because of different conceptions of capitalism and of the government's role, there seems to be a difference between the American and the European conceptions of social entrepreneurship. The objective of this paper is to clarify the concepts of ‘social entrepreneurship’, ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘social entrepreneurship organization’ and to examine whether there is a transatlantic divide in the way these are conceived and defined. After having justified the need for a definition, we present the different geographical perspectives. North American and European literatures on social entrepreneurship are critically analysed by means of Gartner's fo...

Reclaiming the space of entrepreneurship in society: geographical, discursive and social dimensions

Abstract: This paper seeks to explore and to reflect upon the implications of how to conceive entrepreneurship when considered as a societal rather than an economic phenomenon. To conceive and reclaim the space in which entrepreneurship is seen at work in society, we point at the geographical, discursive and social dimensions from where we develop three crucial and connected questions that can reconstruct the future research agendas of entrepreneurship studies and that can guide us towards a geopolitics of everyday entrepreneurship: what spaces/discourses/stakeholders have we privileged in the study of entrepreneurship and what other spaces/discourses/stakeholders could we consider?