Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1177/14657503221094445
Haijing De Haan-Cao
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are suffering heavily from the Covid-19 pandemic. Pincode Telenet International (PTI) is a small company providing software solutions to the utility sector in the Netherlands. Its revenue depends entirely on outsourcing contracts given by utility providers. When the market environment is disrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak and its lasting impact, PTI is confronted with a 35% drop in revenue and many uncertainties. This case illustrates how PTI copes with uncertainties by focusing on one certainty: the available resources. The resource-based coping strategy presented in this case engages students to reflect on how different resources can be used to strengthen collaborations and expand a customer base. It thus advances our understanding of opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial behaviour in times of crisis.
中小企业受到新冠肺炎疫情的严重影响。Pincode Telenet International (PTI)是一家为荷兰公用事业部门提供软件解决方案的小公司。它的收入完全依赖于公用事业供应商提供的外包合同。当新冠肺炎疫情及其持续影响扰乱市场环境时，PTI面临着收入下降35%和许多不确定因素。这个案例说明了PTI如何通过关注一个确定性来应对不确定性:可用资源。本案例中提出的以资源为基础的应对策略促使学生思考如何利用不同的资源来加强合作和扩大客户群。因此，它促进了我们对危机时期的机会识别和企业家行为的理解。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1177/14657503221093007
Sumita Sarma, Sharmin Attaran, M. Attaran
Sustainable entrepreneurship integrates economic, environmental, and social into a firm's goals, activities, and planning to create a long-term value for the firm, its stakeholders, and broader society. The firm's strategies are formulated and executed to meet the firm's needs and its stakeholders while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing the natural resources that will be needed in the future. The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call regarding external uncertainty that impacted all small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Leveraging this context, this study aims to assess the external and internal factors that influence sustainable opportunity recognition through interviews with twelve sustainable entrepreneurs in the USA and Canada. Based on the results, future research directions and recommendations have been made.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-07DOI: 10.1177/14657503221089802
Annie Roos, Johan Gaddefors
In this article, we explore connections between entrepreneurship, gender, empowerment and emancipation. Through the lens of entrepreneurship, we investigate the spatial aspects of these interlinked processes and illustrate emancipation through oppressive gender structures. This spatial lens allows us to see how emancipation changes in practice over time, with empowerment being one of these practices. Through ethnographic longitudinal fieldwork that studies an ironworks turned into a tourist garden, we highlight the collective reproduction of established oppressive structures. Our findings prioritise a spatial understanding of how entrepreneurship connects to empowerment and emancipation.
{"title":"In the wake of the ironworks - entrepreneurship and the spatial connections to empowerment and emancipation","authors":"Annie Roos, Johan Gaddefors","doi":"10.1177/14657503221089802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503221089802","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we explore connections between entrepreneurship, gender, empowerment and emancipation. Through the lens of entrepreneurship, we investigate the spatial aspects of these interlinked processes and illustrate emancipation through oppressive gender structures. This spatial lens allows us to see how emancipation changes in practice over time, with empowerment being one of these practices. Through ethnographic longitudinal fieldwork that studies an ironworks turned into a tourist garden, we highlight the collective reproduction of established oppressive structures. Our findings prioritise a spatial understanding of how entrepreneurship connects to empowerment and emancipation.","PeriodicalId":126058,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126904972","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 : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1177/14657503221086101
L. Sabia, R. Bell, D. Bozward
This case study provides a critical understanding of the connection between start-up investment and the development of a loyal brand community. Learners develop an appreciation of how engagement in crowdfunding campaigns can lead to the creation of engaged partners. This is explored through applying the Business Model Canvas to the case of BrewDog, a company that has expanded beyond the niche market of craft brewing to become an international brand. The use of crowdfunding has not only enabled Brewdog to raise the capital to finance expansion but also to develop a special relationship with some of their customers, who through investment and engagement can become partners in the product development process.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1177/14657503221086099
Stine Alm Hersleth, E. Kubberød, A. Gonera
This paper expands and contextualises social perspectives on entrepreneurial learning by considering the informal learning dynamics and outcomes in a facilitated learning network (FLN) targeting micro-entrepreneurs within the local food sector. This research builds new theoretical and empirical knowledge on the contributions of FLN as a community of inquiry (CoI) to support entrepreneurial knowledge acquisition. Our research strategy was a single embedded case study with the units of analysis consisting of 12 micro-firms within the local meat industry in Norway. In retrospective in-depth interviews, founder-managers reflected on their learning from others from participation in a local-food learning network. Three main themes emerged from our analysis, reflecting the informal regulating mechanisms for knowledge sharing and how entrepreneurs acquired new entrepreneurial knowledge: (1) cultural norms stabilising the community of inquiry, (2) engagement in the practices of others regulates access to community knowledge and (3) from community inquiry to individual entrepreneurial knowledge. Based on these themes, we built a conceptual framework showing informal knowledge-sharing mechanisms and the individual micro-entrepreneurs’ entrepreneurial knowledge acquisition in a CoI. Our study contributes to the research stream on social entrepreneurial learning and how learning from others in a CoI enhances entrepreneurial learning.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1177/14657503221086098
Nermin Elkafrawi, D. Refai
The aim of this study is to examine the main challenges and opportunities facing Egyptian rural women entrepreneurs (RWEs) in starting and growing their enterprises. The study narrates the story of one woman in rural Egypt and the challenges she has encountered in becoming an entrepreneur. A qualitative approach is applied to explore various social and economic aspects in Egyptian RWEs’ life. The results suggest four main interrelated challenges and two main opportunities facing RWEs in rural Egypt. This is one of few studies responding to calls for more research addressing RWEs, particularly in developing countries, and for showing the role of context in shaping their entrepreneurial decisions. The case offers better understanding of RWEs, and sets the foundation for more research in areas of rural women empowerment, rural development and contextualisation of entrepreneurship.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1177/14657503221081352
A. Pearce, Rose Quan, K. Dziewanowska
Lundgren Tours (LT) is an awarding-winning regional tour company founded by a student entrepreneur in 2016. In 2020, the UK left the EU and the country's first Covid-19 patients were identified, leading to international anti-coronavirus restrictions and the cancellation of tours for 12 months. The case considers several aspects (explained in ‘Themes’) of the catastrophe through the founder's eyes, revealing the influence of entrepreneurial psychological capital and how striving to survive disaster can lead to new strengths and opportunities.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1177/14657503221081355
Chiara Nespoli, A. Kozan, V. Scuotto, M. Giudice
The increasing amount of investment through crowdfunding platforms despite the recent global economic downturn brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has nurtured the interest in how this form of investment can generate non-monetary value for a company. Through the lens of the entrepreneurial value creation (EVC) theory, the present case study demonstrates the development of two key stages of a new venture: (1) formulation and (2) monetization. The study employs a case study approach based on a high-tech company in Italy, namely Aimage. The case demonstrates how Aimage improves entrepreneurial competences by the acquisition of dynamic capabilities through means of a crowdfunding campaign. It shows how to gain not just monetary but also non-monetary benefits, mainly in the form of entrepreneurial knowledge. Moreover, the case of Aimage confirms that crowdfunding brings added value to an entrepreneurial venture in its monetization stage—even when capital is not needed for survival but for overcoming time of crisis—by enhancing its dynamic capabilities and helping to transform entrepreneurial competence into entrepreneurial reward.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1177/14657503221077939
Erik Hunter, J. Nybom, E. Micheels, Kim Klyver
In the agricultural sector, the Law of Jante—a Scandinavian form of cultural intolerance towards standing out, being different and overachieving (akin to the Tall Poppy Syndrome and The nail that sticks out gets hammered down culture found in other countries)—may play an important role by influencing when entrepreneurship is an acceptable strategic choice to adversity. Based on a three group, between-subjects experiment of 122 Swedish university students studying agricultural and rural management, we tested whether the advice our participants gave to a fictitious farmer to pursue entrepreneurial activity depended on information regarding the farmer's motivation to pursue entrepreneurship (experimental treatments included motivation scenarios based on necessity vs. opportunity driven vs. control). Moreover, we test whether entrepreneurial advice is moderated by the participants own “Jante-ness”. Unexpectedly, we found that our participants did not adapt the entrepreneurship advice they give to the situational context, nor does Jante play a moderating role; instead we found that Jante had a significant and negative main effect on the entrepreneurial advice given. This finding suggests that Jante is still very much alive and may play an important role in explaining relatively low rates of innovation and entrepreneurship in (Swedish) agriculture.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/14657503221077753
Endrit Kromidha, D. Refai, Steven Pattinson, L. Galloway, Alex Kevill
We are delighted to present the latest issue of International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation. As always, the papers represent a range of topics, and include work on innovation. We take the opportunity here to present a short editorial on the importance of the links between innovation and entrepreneurship and the rich opportunities for value-adding research on innovation in the entrepreneurship field. Innovation and entrepreneurship meet in a space of curiosity, characterised by proactiveness and risk-taking towards opportunities. Changes in the current business climate have created many such opportunities. As innovation and entrepreneurship researchers, we sit at the crossroad of contextualising what we know from the past to make sense of what is happening now, and gain an insight into the future. However, it is impossible to cover the vast array of innovation pathways and trends without realising that they may soon become obsolete before seeing the light of publication. This, however, does not (and should not) discourage us as entrepreneurship scholars from exploring promising innovation trends that demand attention, particularly in light of today’s global business context. Creativity and creation processes – An entrepreneur is habitually seen as the creator of innovations that can be radical or incremental. The field has advanced from the confined positioning of innovations as physical products or services, to encompass innovative concepts, such as crowdfunding whereby potential customers are simultaneously the funders and investors in a business. As innovation research on crowdfunding matures in the entrepreneurship domain, we continue to seek new knowledge in terms of the what, why, how, when and where of crowdfunding. This growing interest also applies to other innovation domains including, for example, different forms of automation such as artificial intelligence and machine learning powered by big data, and innovative ways of producing 3D printing. Our interest goes beyond the mechanical, operative and engineering aspects of those innovations, to consider their relevance to entrepreneurship research and how they can drive the field forward. Hypes and trends Hypes and trends continue to feed an attention-hungry market with innovations and novel communication approaches. Whilst hypes are short-lived, both hypes and trends offer plentiful room for emerging opportunities, alongside ideas for marketing and entrepreneurship to converge. We often tend to theorise what can be generalised and prevail over time, however, hypes and trends can offer a foundation for other innovations to emerge, rendering them important to explore in more depth. A better understanding of this symbiotic relationship between innovations, hypes and trends can offer multiple pathways for future research in entrepreneurship. The innovation space All innovations are placed or perceived within a spatial dimension, which can be as big as a space for populating Mars o
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