Pub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.1177/14657503231221691
Noor Muhammad, Farid Ullah, Robert Smith
This article explores the influence of cultural constraints on entrepreneurial motivations for women entrepreneurs of the Muslim faith. A qualitative approach is taken by drawing from extraordinarily rare interviews with 17 women entrepreneurs who run businesses in the open market in the Northwest region of Pakistan. Push and pull factors were examined in the context of cultural constraints using the lens of post-materialism and dissatisfaction theories. The findings reveal that some entrepreneurs are pulled into entrepreneurship to give something back to local youths and to improve their life chances and/or reduce hardship. In relation to the push factors, some entrepreneurs decided to do something about the harsh circumstances they found themselves in to demonstrate their agency. All were aware of the cultural constraints around them and are highly motivated to overcome these as role models for future generations and to hopefully achieve parity with male peers. This research contributes to the existing literature by providing new insights to the reader in extending the post-materialism and dissatisfaction theories for women Muslim entrepreneurs in Pakistan. Furthermore, it also demonstrates how cultural constraints related to family issues motivate women in a male-dominated society to become entrepreneurs.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/14657503231213304
Birgit Leick, A. Duc
Sustainability entrepreneurs are driven by their personal missions about the sustainability-based values that they wish to tap when building a business model. This teaching-case study presents insights into how the personal sustainability missions and goals of entrepreneurs, such as combating climate change in terms of CO2 emission reductions, can be realised, measured and aligned with concrete customer value in order to build a business model. Here, the case of the company Ducky AS is presented, a Norwegian start-up business that has been working for years to transform the specific sustainability missions of its entrepreneurs into concrete social and business values. The case is analysed through the lens of complexity with regards to sustainability management and entrepreneurship. A qualitative research approach with material stemming from a guest lecture and a subsequent interview is used to study the case.
{"title":"Translating mission-driven sustainability values into a value-creating business model: The Norwegian start-up Ducky AS","authors":"Birgit Leick, A. Duc","doi":"10.1177/14657503231213304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503231213304","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainability entrepreneurs are driven by their personal missions about the sustainability-based values that they wish to tap when building a business model. This teaching-case study presents insights into how the personal sustainability missions and goals of entrepreneurs, such as combating climate change in terms of CO2 emission reductions, can be realised, measured and aligned with concrete customer value in order to build a business model. Here, the case of the company Ducky AS is presented, a Norwegian start-up business that has been working for years to transform the specific sustainability missions of its entrepreneurs into concrete social and business values. The case is analysed through the lens of complexity with regards to sustainability management and entrepreneurship. A qualitative research approach with material stemming from a guest lecture and a subsequent interview is used to study the case.","PeriodicalId":126058,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation","volume":"50 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139250039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1177/14657503231213310
Rui Falcão, A. C. Moreira, Maria João Carneiro
Besides the extraordinary impact of Business Angels (BAs) as the leading contributors to fund entrepreneurship at the early stage, the value BAs perceive from their investment activity has not yet been fully explored. Based on a new holistic perspective resulting from marketing and consumer behaviour, this article builds on the concept of perceived investment value to create a new instrument that measures the overall value perceived by BAs in their investing activity. Data were collected through a survey questionnaire with 849 BAs from 79 countries. The instrument created was tested through Structural Equation Modelling. The results reveal that: (i) BAs are not purely financial investors and expect more than just money from their activity, as self-esteem, entrepreneurship, emotion and altruism are the main dimensions that explain angel perceived investment value (APIV), with economic and functional dimensions being the least influential; (ii) APIV positively influences their job satisfaction; and (iii) angels satisfied with their jobs are more likely to reinvest their money and engage in positive word-of-mouth. A multigroup comparison was implemented, validating the results for males and females, novices and veterans and light and heavy investors.
除了商业天使（BA）作为早期创业资金的主要贡献者所产生的非凡影响外，商业天使从其投资活动中感知到的价值尚未得到充分探讨。本文基于市场营销和消费者行为学的全新整体视角，以感知投资价值的概念为基础，创建了一种新的工具，用于衡量天使投资人在投资活动中感知到的整体价值。数据是通过对来自 79 个国家的 849 名 BA 进行问卷调查收集的。通过结构方程模型对所创建的工具进行了测试。结果显示(自尊、创业精神、情感和利他主义是解释天使感知投资价值（APIV）的主要维度，而经济和功能维度的影响最小；(ii) APIV 对天使的工作满意度有积极影响；(iii) 对工作满意的天使更有可能将资金再投资，并进行积极的口碑传播。通过多组比较，验证了男性和女性、新手和老手以及轻度和重度投资者的结果。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1177/14657503231214389
Ean Tsou, Piers Steel, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy
A vibrant literature studying antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions is largely motivated by an often implicit assumption that they will be followed by subsequent entrepreneurial behaviors or actions. A much smaller number of studies actually test this assumption. Their results suggest that while the entrepreneurial intention–behavior relationship is usually present, its strength turns out highly contextual. This meta-analysis intends to integrate and summarize the available research base on the entrepreneurial intention–behavior relationship, assessing the moderating impacts of environmental, demographic and methodological factors. Data from 75 studies (150,703 individuals) were included in the analysis. Our results indicate that the focal relationship is robust across environmental contexts, populations, and methodologies except for the measures used for entrepreneurial behavior, the use of a database compared to collecting new data, and the duration of time between intention and behavior. Additionally, entrepreneurial intentions were found to account for only 17% of the variance in entrepreneurial behaviors as opposed to the commonly expected and cited 37%. Our findings suggest theoretical and methodological considerations for future work aimed at exploring and overcoming the non-trivial intention–behavior gap and we encourage the discovery of cognitive and behavioral factors reinforcing the intention–action translation at different levels of analysis and over time.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1177/14657503231213308
Boris Urban, Derek Seely
Despite that the commercialization of academic research at universities in the form of spin-offs is increasingly acknowledged as a source of innovation across the globe, few universities in Africa have created spin-offs. Consequently, we examine the extent to which different organizational factors impact the development of academic spin-offs in the South African context. Primary data is collected from public universities via a structured questionnaire and hypotheses are evaluated using structural equation modelling. The findings reveal that organizational factors in terms of research mobilisation, external collaboration, unconventionality, and the perception of bureaucratic university policies all positively and significantly influence academic spin-offs. A complex picture of predictors influencing academic spin-offs emerges in terms of the different model pathways. Conducting research and empirically evaluating a model in an African emerging market context, offers new and valuable insights, which can enlarge theory and enhance understanding of academic entrepreneurship in general.
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Although entrepreneurial marketing (EM) and its dimensions are not an unknown concept, there is a lack of definite consensus among researchers, especially on the utility of social media platforms. The widespread use of social media platforms such as Instagram has led companies to take advantage of them in their brand management with an entrepreneurial approach; therefore, social media is considered a necessary factor in modern entrepreneurship. In this study, we identified the EM dimensions of the Instagram platform and examined their effect on brand image (BI) enhancement. To do so, a qualitative content analysis was performed using Instagram posts related to new products of dairy companies, and seven dimensions were obtained, which are proactiveness, innovativeness, opportunity focus, resource leveraging, customer intensity, emotional connections, and entrepreneurial promotion on social media. The results of sentiment analysis of comments indicate that among the mentioned dimensions, “emotional connections” have the most effect and “opportunity focus” has the least effect on BI enhancement.
{"title":"A qualitative investigation of entrepreneurial marketing dimensions and their effect on brand image on the Instagram platform","authors":"Elaheh Ghobadi Saki, Seyed Hamid Khodadad Hosseini, Fereshteh Mansourimoayyed, Ali Rajabzadeh Ghatari","doi":"10.1177/14657503231202664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503231202664","url":null,"abstract":"Although entrepreneurial marketing (EM) and its dimensions are not an unknown concept, there is a lack of definite consensus among researchers, especially on the utility of social media platforms. The widespread use of social media platforms such as Instagram has led companies to take advantage of them in their brand management with an entrepreneurial approach; therefore, social media is considered a necessary factor in modern entrepreneurship. In this study, we identified the EM dimensions of the Instagram platform and examined their effect on brand image (BI) enhancement. To do so, a qualitative content analysis was performed using Instagram posts related to new products of dairy companies, and seven dimensions were obtained, which are proactiveness, innovativeness, opportunity focus, resource leveraging, customer intensity, emotional connections, and entrepreneurial promotion on social media. The results of sentiment analysis of comments indicate that among the mentioned dimensions, “emotional connections” have the most effect and “opportunity focus” has the least effect on BI enhancement.","PeriodicalId":126058,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135537311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1177/14657503231203486
Kanhaiya K Sinha, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy
Existing studies of new venture founders’ human capital (e.g. industry work experience, past venture experience, and education) reveal its impact on the expected mean of firm performance, largely neglecting its possible nontrivial effect on performance variability. This study is an attempt to fill this gap. By drawing on the insights of the behavioral theory of the firm, we argue that the aspirations bred by the founders’ human capital are associated with new venture performance variability. Using a multiplicative heteroscedasticity regression model, we find that work experience increases performance variability without increasing the performance mean. In contrast, past venture experience positively affects the firm's mean performance without affecting variability. Education increases performance variability while decreasing the performance mean. We also find that having patents and venture capital funding affects both the mean and the performance variability, albeit in opposite directions.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1177/14657503231201104
Gary Bosworth
Samespace is a new coworking venue created in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Located in a small town in North-East England, it was founded by an entrepreneur who wanted a better working environment to run his own business. The case focuses on sources of self-identified opportunity recognition and the transferability of entrepreneurial skills to address personal needs. As the business has become established, opportunities for the next phase of growth are explored in relation to the need for collaboration with different actors, including some whose business model may be quite far removed from one's own. The teaching note relates to the nature of opportunity and new venture creation as well as aspects of entrepreneurial growth. Drawing on coworking as a contemporary growth sector in the rural economy, it is suited to final-year undergraduate and masters’ level courses in entrepreneurship. The case study also provides a valuable example of entrepreneurship for students of rural development and rural economies in other disciplines such as geography, social and political sciences or economics.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1177/14657503231199346
Billion Julien, Doussard Claire, Labbé Jonathan
This article examines homeless youth as a specific category of disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the Châtelet-les-Halles district in central Paris. It proceeds by showing how the investigation into the informal economic activities of homeless youth, examined through the lens of disadvantaged entrepreneurship and geography, represents a novel research area, particularly within the Parisian context. It is distinguished by its original four-year ethnographic and geographic methodology, encompassing street observations, recorded and unrecorded interviews, and the use of Facebook and geographic information systems to observe and understand 10 homeless youths and their environment. After presenting and exploring the sociological, economic, and geographic context of Châtelet-les-Halles, specifically focusing on the activities of homeless youth, the article provides an analysis of the informal entrepreneurial endeavors pursued by these individuals. Finally, the discussion articulates the notion of geographical context with entrepreneurial creativity and resilience, to better understand how informal entrepreneurial activities are developed in urban environments.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1177/14657503231194263
C. Fernandes, João J. M. Ferreira, P. Veiga, S. Kraus, Paul Jones
There is an ongoing scholarly debate regarding the compatibility of sustained high levels of firm-level growth with today's environmental sustainability goals, which include targets for limiting carbon emissions and avoiding further biodiversity loss. In this study, we aim to explore this issue through a quantitative analysis of the relationship between firm-level growth and sustainable innovation (i.e., all innovations with benefits for the environment) within an international sample of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To accomplish this, we utilise micro-data from the Community Innovation Survey, based on the conceptual framework provided by the Oslo Manual. By employing econometric models, we demonstrate that sustainable innovations promote SME growth. Specifically, we find that SMEs implementing sustainable innovations experience higher growth compared to those that do not practice them. Our research not only contributes to the existing literature in economics and management by providing more extensive knowledge but it also identifies several policy and management implications. Furthermore, we seek to offer novel insights into the importance of sustainable innovations adopted by growth-oriented SMEs.
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