Showing papers in "Journal of Business Venturing in 2009"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define social entrepreneurship and discuss its contributions to creating social wealth; offer a typology of entrepreneurs' search processes that lead to the discovery of opportunities for creating social ventures; and articulate the major ethical concerns social entrepreneurs might encounter.

TL;DR: The authors examines in microcosm such institutional voids and illustrates the activities of an entrepreneurial actor in rural Bangladesh aimed at addressing them, and depicts the crafting of new institutional arrangements as an ongoing process of bricolage and unveil its political nature as well as its potentially negative consequences.

TL;DR: This article found that expert entrepreneurs framed problems in a dramatically different way than novices, focusing more on building the venture as a whole, paying less attention to predictive information, and worrying more about making do with resources on hand to invest only what they could afford to lose.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the links between entrepreneurs' prior business ownership experience and their opportunity identification behavior and found that experienced entrepreneurs identified more opportunities and exploited more innovative opportunities with greater wealth creation potential.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors posit that better control of corruption will also be associated with rising levels of innovation and entrepreneurship, and that monitoring and other transactions cost should restrict the scale and scope of trade and thus, hamper productivity and investment in innovation.

TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of the articles published in the Journal of Business Venturing, summarizing data on 9897 new ventures to connect three of the principles of effectuation positively with new venture performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors acknowledge that delaying business failure can be financially costly to the owner-manager and that delaying failure can also result in job losses for both the owner and the manager.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically investigate angel investors' differential use of predictive versus non-predictive control strategies and show how the use of these strategies affects the outcomes of angel investors.

TL;DR: This article found that the relationship between managers' perceptions of the organizational environment and the number of entrepreneurial ideas implemented varied across managers of different structural levels, and that the positive relationship between managerial support and entrepreneurial action is more positive for senior and middle level managers than it is for lower-level managers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the key contributions of the papers in this special issue, with a particular focus on how they provide insights into structural and process contingencies, the role of management at multiple levels, and organizational and managerial capabilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the importance of boards of directors and absorptive capacity for gaining access to varied and current knowledge that enriches CE activities and suggest that boards and absorbptive capacity complement each other in fueling CE activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that growth is often not a sign of sound development and hypothesize that firms which grow without first securing high levels of profitability tend to be less successful in subsequent periods compared to firms that first secure high profitability at low growth.

TL;DR: The business plans are widely spread among new businesses, and they are supported by various universities, governmental assistance agencies, management consultants and a wide array of literature as mentioned in this paper, and they can be found in many publications.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors complement social cognitive theory with psychological theories on grief in their discussion of two approaches to grief management, grief regulation and grief normalization, that hold promise for enabling corporate entrepreneurs to cope with negative emotions induced by project failure.

TL;DR: The intersection of entrepreneurship and business ethics is receiving increasing scholarly attention as mentioned in this paper, and a review of the research connecting ethics and entrepreneurship, classifying the literature into three broad themes is presented in this special issue.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the trade-off between distinctiveness and belonging in entrepreneurship and develop and model strategies appropriate for managing multiple identities, offering an explanation for why some entrepreneurs are able to balance distinctiveness with belonging, fostering psychological well-being, while others are unable to do so and experience entrepreneurship's dark side.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a multi-and meso-level theory of grief recovery time from the loss of a family business, by supplementing micro theories of grief with those of sense-making.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of external and relational uncertainty on the governance choice for inter-organizational technology sourcing and found that the ranking depends on the type of uncertainty, indicating that firms tackle different types of uncertainty with different governance modes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the lockup period of a sample of 640 ventures going through the IPO and found that a longer lock-up period acts as a substitute signal to venture capital and prestigious underwriter backing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors offer an argument for how genetic factors may influence the tendency of people to engage in entrepreneurial activity, and describe four mechanisms through which genetic factors could operate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the network size and centrality of a new venture's initial alliance partner influence the subsequent size of the new venture network and propose that one has to look beyond the first partner per se, and instead focus on the extant relationships the initial partner has with other firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend a virtue-based account of entrepreneurship in which certain instances of rule breaking, even if morally wrong, are nevertheless ethically acceptable and part of the creative destruction that entrepreneurs bring not only to the economy but also to morality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the longitudinal relationship between negative forms of rule breaking in adolescence and entrepreneurial status in adulthood and found that modest rule-breaking serves as a mediator in the relationship between risk propensity and entrepreneurship status.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effectiveness of combining structural differentiation with formal and informal organizational as well as top management team integration mechanisms in establishing an appropriate context for venturing activities.

TL;DR: This article observed that those who fail to develop their startup activity into an operating business demonstrate substantial hindsight bias concerning the probability of venture formation, and that these individuals are at risk of overestimating their chances of success when starting future nascent activity if they do not correct for their optimistic tendencies.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of social cognitive self-regulation on moral awareness among entrepreneurs and found that those with stronger self-regulatory characteristics are more morally aware and relate such awareness to maintaining personal integrity and building inter-personal trust.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative case analysis of 246 interviews in twelve industry-leading global corporations identifies constructs associated with individual network capacity at individual level, organizational capacity at the organization level, and program network capacity in innovation-based corporate entrepreneurship (ICE), focusing on how project specific ties can form for non-routine phenomena.

TL;DR: Wiltbank et al. as mentioned in this paper reported that highly successful and experienced entrepreneurs rely to a greater degree than novices (MBA students), on effectual logic, which raises a key question: Why do these two groups differ?

TL;DR: In the context of underdeveloped market institutions, entrepreneurs in a transition economy are forced to rely on trust-based partnerships as mentioned in this paper, and they find a great need to actively and intentionally develop trust with their partners.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field study of twenty one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in two large cities in Western China examines the changes in SME behaviors since the beginning of economic reforms in 1979.