Showing papers in "Journal of Business Venturing Insights in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize three perspectives (social enterprises, funding crowd, and crowdfunding platforms) to illuminate key strategies that crowdfunding platforms, like UpEffect, can employ to support social enterprises in enacting solutions for COVID-19 affected people and communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive review of the evolution of the initial coin offerings (ICO) and show that despite its short history, there have been dramatic changes and shifts in the number of ICOs, the amount of money raised, the geographic distribution of ICO, and their regulation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the mediating roles of attitudes and creative process engagement in the creative self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions relationship and support the role of creativity as an antecedent to entrepreneurship, but also hint towards limitations on attitudes as the primary focus of entrepreneurship education programs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that negative societal consequences of COVID-19 can be buffered by shifts in entrepreneurs' strategic orientation through improvised venturing, rapid pivoting and pro-social product extension.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an abductive approach to examine the relationship between financial worries and well-being among the self-employed during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate COVID-19 as a disabling and an enabling mechanism for small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs), particularly how SMEs’ crisis strategies might help them through the crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer research-based insights focused on the three stages in a post-crisis recovery (i.e., business resumption, crisis impact analysis, and future evaluation and modification) to shed light on new trends in crowdfunding context.

TL;DR: This article found that on average, government support goes to better-managed firms and to those with low turnover expectations and high turnover uncertainty, which suggests that COVID-19 state aid tends to go to firms that are most in need of it now and are more likely to be viable in the long term.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors studied the role of small businesses' cognitive characteristic in determining the reopening of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that entrepreneurs with higher level of alertness were less likely to reopen their businesses after the lockdowns were lifted.

TL;DR: In this paper, a weekly diary study following a group of entrepreneurs in London over the first couple months of the COVID-19 inspired lockdown across the UK beginning March 23, 2020, found that small businesses were knocked down but not out by events.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use signaling theory to develop and test a series of counterintuitive conjectures for female crowdfunding success and highlight new theoretical mechanisms in crowdfunding and develop recommendations for female entrepreneurs who want to raise funds.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that bringing time perspective into entrepreneurship is important because of its impact on the search, connection, and evaluation of information surrounding potential opportunities (i.e., entrepreneurial alertness).

TL;DR: The authors explored the associations between trait narcissism and six different entrepreneurial aspects that represent the entire entrepreneurial process and found that a positive link exists between self-reported data from 4798 respondents from three countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how low-code tools affect growth trajectory and entrepreneurial success in the context of e-commerce and show that despite the leaner beginning, they achieve a similar level of successful exits.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel perspective on why some social entrepreneurs venture for foreigners is presented, which employs xenophilia, a love of foreigners, to explain why some people care for foreigners by venturing for them.

TL;DR: This paper examined the mental health and entrepreneurship relationship from a sociocognitive perspective and found that people with ADHD may not be efficacious in the entrepreneurial context, and specifically in recognizing opportunities.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of entrepreneurial passion and paradoxical entrepreneurial interests in predicting social entrepreneurial intention has been explored in a survey of young people who were at the career choice contemplation stage.

TL;DR: This article found that women entrepreneurs use language similar to their male counterparts when pitching to investors, consistent with gender role congruity theory, and found that a masculine linguistic style is generally more effective in pitching situations, with limitations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a case for incorporating psychological capital into entrepreneurship research broadly and then specifically describe how psychological capital could impact opportunity evaluation research, and highlight how entrepreneurship research can provide new insights into psychological capital.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship of owner characteristics to self-employment duration during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with data from 19,174 respondents to the Current Population Survey.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the relative effectiveness of conservative and aggressive strategies for technological leadership in affecting firm performance during the Russian economic crisis of 2013-2017, and propose a novel way of assessing a firm's strategy based on the secondary data utilized in this manuscript.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of gender in prosocial crowdfunding and found that distinctiveness in men's campaigns is associated with faster funding and when women's campaigns are distinctive from other women, funding times vary depending on their sector.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a meta-analysis of 70 papers to better understand the relationship between organizational culture and entrepreneurial orientation, finding that there is not only one particular organizational culture that impacts positively EO, but several organizational cultures that have a positive impact on EO.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors modeled a crowdfunding situation using a modified dictator game in the laboratory and found that the higher the founders' cost of signaling, the more the funders contribute, though not without restrictions.

TL;DR: In the context of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, which has experienced a significant rise in violent crime in recent years, as well as the efforts of Innovation Works, an incubator that is attempting to educate, mentor, and fund entrepreneurs within this challenging context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the various sources of VC value public start-up subsidies differently and differentiate between distinct types of investors who pursue different investment strategies, and they discuss possible explanations for this finding and implications for entrepreneurial finance.

TL;DR: The authors explored beliefs and expectations of how a typical entrepreneurial leader behaves and looks like, i.e. the "entrepreneurial leader stereotype" from the perspective of potential employees.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the effect of effectuation on the biases of overconfidence and illusion of control in entrepreneurship and test the effect in both a field survey with entrepreneurs and an experiment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on two factors that affect the subjective funding behaviors of investors: emotional language in the project description and risky funding choices of prior investors, and identify a positive association between the risk-seeking investor ratio and project success for hedonic projects.