Showing papers in "International Small Business Journal in 2021"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the entrepreneurial persistence of opportunity-motivated entrepreneurs in Ghana and develop a theoretical model focusing on the relationships among perceived in Ghanaians, focusing on relationships between perceived in...
Abstract: This article examines the entrepreneurial persistence of opportunity-motivated entrepreneurs in Ghana. Specifically, it develops a theoretical model focusing on the relationships among perceived in...
44 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate macro-societal state fragility and stability in the context of conflict, poverty and weak institutions, and show that conflicts, poverty, weak institutions create hardships for people, societies and economies on a global basis.
Abstract: Conflict, poverty and weak institutions create hardships for people, societies and economies on a global basis. We investigate macro-societal state fragility and stability. Within this context, and...
39 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualize that strategic entrepreneurship, as a synthesis of young technology-based firms' opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviours, can affect both explorative and exploitative innovation activities in these firms, and expect that subsequent innovation ambidexterity affects profitability.
Abstract: Innovation ambidexterity is especially complex for young technology-based firms because they are resource-challenged and knowledge-deficient in strategic terms; but they possess considerable scope for entrepreneurship. Strategic entrepreneurship may provide a solution. Incubators emerged as a policy solution precisely due to this dilemma. We conceptualise that strategic entrepreneurship, as a synthesis of young technology-based firms’ opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviours, can affect both explorative and exploitative innovation activities in these firms, and expect that subsequent innovation ambidexterity affects profitability. Our empirical analyses reveal complex and competing interrelationships that both ease and exacerbate the tensions associated with innovation ambidexterity. We contribute to theory by testing strategic entrepreneurship as it applies to innovation ambidexterity and evidence behaviours that contribute to its foundations. To entrepreneurs and managers, we offer a set of prescriptions for innovation ambidexterity in young firms that accounts for the complementarities between complex and theoretically opposing constructs.
39 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of strategic orientations on the use of digital marketing tactics and subsequently on the international business performance of small electronic retailers in cross-border electronic commerce (e-commerce) is analyzed.
Abstract: In this article, the impact of strategic orientations on the use of digital marketing tactics and, subsequently, on the international business performance of small electronic retailers (e-retailers) in cross-border electronic commerce (e-commerce) is analysed. Furthermore, these relationships are compared between e-retailers originating in both developed and emerging e-commerce markets. Using a sample of 446 small business-to-consumer e-retailers from 20 European countries, we find that the deployment of digital marketing tactics has a positive effect on international business performance. Of the strategic orientations examined, foreign market orientation is most associated with the use of digital marketing tactics. Remarkably, growth orientation only has a positive effect on e-retailers from developed e-commerce markets, while customer orientation negatively affects e-retailers from emerging e-commerce markets. The differences between e-retailers from developed and emerging e-commerce markets are prominent and show that markets should not be considered as either uniform or generalisable.
35 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, it is well documented that the self-employed experience higher levels of happiness than waged employees even when their incomes are lower, given the UK government's asymmetric treatment of waged workers.
Abstract: It is well documented that the self-employed experience higher levels of happiness than waged employees even when their incomes are lower. Given the UK government’s asymmetric treatment of waged wo...
35 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the economic and spatial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of potential business failure and the associated job losses across the 100 largest cities and to...
Abstract: In this commentary, we trace the economic and spatial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of potential business failure and the associated job losses across the 100 largest cities and to...
34 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the phenomenon of dynamic capabilities in international new ventures (INVs) from emerging markets and examine the literature literature on this research stream, which is fragmented.
Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of dynamic capabilities in international new ventures (INVs) from emerging markets. While this research stream is gaining traction, the literature is fragmented...
31 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the ability of dynamic capabilitie for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to cope with COVID-19 disasters.
Abstract: COVID-19 wreaked havoc on public health and the global economy. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were hit especially hard. In this research note, we test the ability of dynamic capabilitie...
25 citations
TL;DR: The individual ambidexterity concept, its association with multitasking behaviours and paradoxical leadership, has been studied extensively in the literature as discussed by the authors, with a focus on exploration and exploitation.
Abstract: Ambidexterity requires both exploration and exploitation. However, our understanding of the individual ambidexterity concept, its association with multitasking behaviours and paradoxical leadership...
24 citations
TL;DR: This commentary suggests that startups founded in the crisis are characterised less by entrepreneurial teams and more by habitual entrepreneurs, and female entrepreneurial activity seems not to have been affected by the crisis when measured as the proportion of women founders involved in innovative startups pre-crisis and during crisis.
Abstract: The global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus–2) has led to drastic infection control measures t...
21 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of an entrepreneur's financial literacy upon innovation within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was analyzed. And the authors extended human capital theory to consider innovation in SMEs.
Abstract: This article analyses the impact of an entrepreneur’s financial literacy upon innovation within small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and, in so doing, extends human capital theory to consider...
TL;DR: This paper explored the approaches of identity construction used by Chinese daughters while negotiating the successor-leader role within family businesses, and used a qualitative interpretivist approach to evaluate the effectiveness of these approaches.
Abstract: This article explores the approaches of identity construction used by Chinese daughters while negotiating the successor–leader role within family businesses. A qualitative interpretivist approach w...
TL;DR: The authors re-examine how women business owners discursively engage with the identity of the mumpreneur, and draw on interviews with women busines to understand how women busineers view postfeminism as an analytical device.
Abstract: Mobilising postfeminism as an analytical device, this article re-examines how women business owners discursively engage with the identity of the mumpreneur. Drawing on interviews with women busines...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors find support for the notion that fear of failure prompts the adoption of entrepreneurial strategies, provided the entrepreneur believes they have the ability to act entrepreneurially, and that by so doing, their financial situation will improve.
Abstract: Calls in the entrepreneurship literature have advocated theory development and empirical studies exploring fear of failure. Often viewed as an inhibitory factor towards entrepreneurial activity, contemporary research has suggested that fear of failure can also motivate entrepreneurial activity. To explore this issue, we draw on Protection Motivation Theory to conceptualise and operationalise fear of failure. We find support for the notion that fear of failure prompts the adoption of entrepreneurial strategies, provided the entrepreneur believes they have the ability to act entrepreneurially, and that by so doing, their financial situation will improve. Our approach extends the literature on fear of failure in an entrepreneurship context by disentangling cognitive and behavioural aspects focusing not only on threat appraisals, but also on how entrepreneurs cope with them.
TL;DR: The belief that more general capital constraints are exacerbated and magnified in innovative and technology-based firms has provided justification for policy intervention, across the range of equit... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The belief that more general capital constraints are exacerbated and magnified in innovative and technology-based firms has provided justification for policy intervention, across the range of equit...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how dynamic capabilities are enacted in micro-enterprises and what role different parties and managerial time allocation play in this enactment, drawing upon three in-depth ca...
Abstract: This article analyses how dynamic capabilities are enacted in micro-enterprises and what role different parties and managerial time allocation play in this enactment. Drawing upon three in-depth ca...
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of local financial development on cash holdings of Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is investigated, consistent with the hypothesis that local financial...
Abstract: In this article, we investigate the effect of local financial development on cash holdings of Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Consistent with the hypothesis that local financial ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the complexities of identity work among refugee women entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom are analyzed, showing that once labelled as refugees, individuals are homogenised and disadvantaged, and that they are vulnerable to discrimination.
Abstract: This article critically analyses the complexities of identity work among refugee women entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom. Once labelled as refugees, individuals are homogenised and disadvantaged ...
TL;DR: In this article, Hart, Neha Prashar and Anastasia Ri have compiled the annual review article of 2020 dedicated to the memory of Michael Anyadike-Danes.
Abstract: We would like to thank Professor Mark Hart, Dr Neha Prashar and Dr Anastasia Ri for compiling our Annual Review Article of 2020 which is dedicated to the memory of Michael Anyadike-Danes. Analyses ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on events and outcomes shaping most of the existing family business research on intra-family succession, the subtleties of the incumbent-successor relationship and the dynamic nature of the dynamic relationship.
Abstract: With the focus on events and outcomes shaping most of the existing family business research on intra-family succession, the subtleties of the incumbent–successor relationship and the dynamic nature...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how family and non-family small-and medium-size enterprises differ in their preference for patenting over secrecy as a means to protect value of intellectual property.
Abstract: We investigate how family and non-family small-and-medium size enterprises (SMEs) differ in their preference for patenting over secrecy as a means to protect value of intellectual property, and how...
TL;DR: In this paper, women entrepreneurs still experience more obstacles than men depending on cultural beliefs and cultural norms, and women-owned businesses represent a significant segment of the contemporary economy upon a global basis.
Abstract: Women-owned businesses represent a significant segment of the contemporary economy upon a global basis. However, women entrepreneurs still experience more obstacles than men depending on cultural c...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the important question of why those in paid employment might be hesitant to start their own businesses and predict how diminished work-related creativity of employees might explain their reluctance.
Abstract: This article addresses the important question of why those in paid employment might be hesitant to start their own businesses. In particular, we predict how diminished work-related creativity of em...
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between financial distress, well-being and employment status was investigated, using several indicators of financial distress and of wellbeing, and their econometric analysis showed that financial distress is correlated with well-health.
Abstract: This article investigate the relationship between financial distress, well-being and employment status. Using several indicators of financial distress and of well-being, our econometric analysis sh...
TL;DR: Analyses of the diversity of women entrepreneurs and their enterprises, using novel approaches and theoretical viewpoints, is lacking in contemporary scholarship as discussed by the authors, and therefore, a review of the literature is needed.
Abstract: Analyses of the diversity of women entrepreneurs and their enterprises, using novel approaches and theoretical viewpoints, is lacking in contemporary scholarship. Accordingly, this article reviews ...
TL;DR: In this article, a network signalling theory approach is proposed to analyse small firm internationalisation in the digital economy, using a data set of 4446 small- and medium-sized firms extracted from the SME platform.
Abstract: This article proposes a network signalling theory approach to analyse small firm internationalisation in the digital economy. We use a data set of 4446 small- and medium-sized firms extracted from ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors critically analyse the sources and the role of knowledge diversity in informing causation logics in family firms, and show that family firms rely on knowledge resources from both intra-family and inter-family sources.
Abstract: This article will critically analyse the sources and the role of knowledge diversity in informing causation logics in family firms. Family firms rely on knowledge resources from both intra-family a...
TL;DR: Using a large, longitudinal panel of US start-ups collected between 2004 and 2011, the authors showed the extent to which Intellectual Property (IP) types, for example trademarks, patents, copyrigh...
Abstract: Using a large, longitudinal panel of US start-ups collected between 2004 and 2011, this article shows the extent to which intellectual property (IP) types, for example trademarks, patents, copyrigh...
TL;DR: While entrepreneurial behaviour is generally seen to arise from a reasoned, judgement-then-action pathway, evidence of an alternative is emerging as mentioned in this paper, which is an unreasoned, impulse-drivable pathway.
Abstract: While entrepreneurial behaviour is generally seen to arise from a reasoned, judgement-then-action pathway, evidence of an alternative is emerging. Yet, this alternative – an unreasoned, impulse-dri...
TL;DR: In this article, the diversity and heterogeneity of women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom by analysing how gender intersects with ethnicity and...
Abstract: This article advances knowledge on the diversity and heterogeneity of women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom by analysing how gender intersects with ethnicity and...