Pub Date : 2020-09-02DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2019.1664069
C. A. Gorman
Virginia McGowan’s timely publication of Harness the Power of Mentoring presents a necessary and novel resource for solopreneurs. Organized in ten chapters embedded with chapter summaries of key in...
{"title":"Harness the power of mentoring","authors":"C. A. Gorman","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2019.1664069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2019.1664069","url":null,"abstract":"Virginia McGowan’s timely publication of Harness the Power of Mentoring presents a necessary and novel resource for solopreneurs. Organized in ten chapters embedded with chapter summaries of key in...","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"7 1","pages":"501 - 502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78341993","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 : 2020-09-02DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2019.1646532
G. Wilson, J. Perepelkin, D. Zhang
Abstract This study explored the mediating roles of specialization and diversification strategies in the entrepreneurial orientation and performance relationship. The retail pharmacy industry was strategically investigated, as pharmacies can offer storefront products that are not health-related (diversification) and recent regulatory changes have permitted the expansion of professional services (specialization). Using data from 259 retail pharmacies, the results of the structural equation model showed that an entrepreneurial-oriented strategy was an antecedent to the implementation of diversification and specialization strategies, but only specialization was correlated with performance. Specifically, specialization was found to directly impact professional performance and indirectly influence financial performance. This study adds to the understanding of mediating variables in the entrepreneurial orientation and performance relationship. It underscores the importance of implementing a core-competency-driven specialization versus a diversification strategy in retail pharmacy. The article offers strategic directives for practitioners seeking to maximize the dual performance objectives of retail pharmacies.
{"title":"The roles of diversification and specialization strategies in the entrepreneurial orientation and performance relationship","authors":"G. Wilson, J. Perepelkin, D. Zhang","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2019.1646532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2019.1646532","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explored the mediating roles of specialization and diversification strategies in the entrepreneurial orientation and performance relationship. The retail pharmacy industry was strategically investigated, as pharmacies can offer storefront products that are not health-related (diversification) and recent regulatory changes have permitted the expansion of professional services (specialization). Using data from 259 retail pharmacies, the results of the structural equation model showed that an entrepreneurial-oriented strategy was an antecedent to the implementation of diversification and specialization strategies, but only specialization was correlated with performance. Specifically, specialization was found to directly impact professional performance and indirectly influence financial performance. This study adds to the understanding of mediating variables in the entrepreneurial orientation and performance relationship. It underscores the importance of implementing a core-competency-driven specialization versus a diversification strategy in retail pharmacy. The article offers strategic directives for practitioners seeking to maximize the dual performance objectives of retail pharmacies.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"19 1","pages":"457 - 476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82684194","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 : 2020-08-21DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1799294
I. Akpan, Didier Soopramanien, Dong-Heon Kwak
Abstract The adoption of cutting-edge technologies to steer business activities during community lockdown to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, even if involuntarily, provides evidence that technologies not only offer competitive advantages but also provides a means for survival, by improvising existing business models. In June 2019, we issued a call for papers to address the awareness, adoption, and implementation challenges of technologies that can drive businesses of all sizes in the fourth industrial revolution. We intended to identify as critical elements the “must-have” and a “nice to have” technologies for small businesses and innovation. Then the ongoing COVID-19 global health pandemic struck in December 2019, forcing the need for digitization of business activities and remote operations, which was considered a “nice to have” to immediately become a “critical to have” to survive in the ever increasingly uncertain business environment. This paper identifies the technologies, evaluates disruptive software platforms, and strategies needed for creating and managing small business innovation and highlighting the complexity of that process and the context within which this process takes place. We integrate this discussion alongside a summary of the articles included in the Special Issue. The current realities show that technologies that enable social business creation, customer relationship management systems, new communications channels, virtual reality technologies for remote operations, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are crucial to lowering the costs of doing business. Big data and predictive and visual analytics are critical enablers to aiding complex business decisions in the current challenging business climate.
{"title":"Cutting-edge technologies for small business and innovation in the era of COVID-19 global health pandemic","authors":"I. Akpan, Didier Soopramanien, Dong-Heon Kwak","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1799294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1799294","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The adoption of cutting-edge technologies to steer business activities during community lockdown to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, even if involuntarily, provides evidence that technologies not only offer competitive advantages but also provides a means for survival, by improvising existing business models. In June 2019, we issued a call for papers to address the awareness, adoption, and implementation challenges of technologies that can drive businesses of all sizes in the fourth industrial revolution. We intended to identify as critical elements the “must-have” and a “nice to have” technologies for small businesses and innovation. Then the ongoing COVID-19 global health pandemic struck in December 2019, forcing the need for digitization of business activities and remote operations, which was considered a “nice to have” to immediately become a “critical to have” to survive in the ever increasingly uncertain business environment. This paper identifies the technologies, evaluates disruptive software platforms, and strategies needed for creating and managing small business innovation and highlighting the complexity of that process and the context within which this process takes place. We integrate this discussion alongside a summary of the articles included in the Special Issue. The current realities show that technologies that enable social business creation, customer relationship management systems, new communications channels, virtual reality technologies for remote operations, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are crucial to lowering the costs of doing business. Big data and predictive and visual analytics are critical enablers to aiding complex business decisions in the current challenging business climate.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"144 1","pages":"607 - 617"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76807834","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 : 2020-08-21DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1804714
R. Malerba, J. Ferreira
Abstract This paper examines developments in the research on immigrant entrepreneurship and strategy based on a systematic literature review of the Web of Science and Scopus databases. This aims to recognise the issues around strategy approached by academic research on immigrant entrepreneurship and furthermore identify the strategies applied by immigrant entrepreneurs in the creation, survival, and growth of their businesses. The results demonstrate how seven themes span the core of the 67 selected studies: i) Opportunity recognition and business creation processes, ii) Adaptation and survival strategies, iii) Ethnicity influences on immigrant entrepreneur strategies, iv) Multicultural and breaking-out strategies, v) Internationalisation strategies and transnational business, vi) Differences between immigrants and non-immigrants as entrepreneurs, and vii) Governmental and support organisation policies. Our key findings reveal that the competitive advantage of immigrant entrepreneurs derives from their ability, firstly, to gain benefits from their communities (the ethnic enclave strategy), before then integrating with the mainstream market in their host country (break-out strategy) and, finally, expanding to other countries, mainly through transnational business dealings (internationalisation strategies).
本文通过对Web of Science和Scopus数据库的系统文献综述，考察了移民创业和战略研究的进展。本文旨在认识到移民创业学术研究所涉及的战略问题，并进一步确定移民企业家在其企业的创建、生存和发展中所应用的战略。结果显示了七个主题如何跨越67项选定研究的核心:i)机会识别和商业创造过程，ii)适应和生存战略，iii)种族对移民企业家战略的影响，iv)多元文化和突破战略，v)国际化战略和跨国业务，vi)移民和非移民企业家之间的差异，以及vii)政府和支持组织政策。我们的主要发现表明，移民企业家的竞争优势源于他们的能力，首先，从他们的社区获得利益(民族飞地战略)，然后融入东道国的主流市场(突破战略)，最后，扩展到其他国家，主要是通过跨国商业交易(国际化战略)。
{"title":"Immigrant entrepreneurship and strategy: a systematic literature review","authors":"R. Malerba, J. Ferreira","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1804714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1804714","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines developments in the research on immigrant entrepreneurship and strategy based on a systematic literature review of the Web of Science and Scopus databases. This aims to recognise the issues around strategy approached by academic research on immigrant entrepreneurship and furthermore identify the strategies applied by immigrant entrepreneurs in the creation, survival, and growth of their businesses. The results demonstrate how seven themes span the core of the 67 selected studies: i) Opportunity recognition and business creation processes, ii) Adaptation and survival strategies, iii) Ethnicity influences on immigrant entrepreneur strategies, iv) Multicultural and breaking-out strategies, v) Internationalisation strategies and transnational business, vi) Differences between immigrants and non-immigrants as entrepreneurs, and vii) Governmental and support organisation policies. Our key findings reveal that the competitive advantage of immigrant entrepreneurs derives from their ability, firstly, to gain benefits from their communities (the ethnic enclave strategy), before then integrating with the mainstream market in their host country (break-out strategy) and, finally, expanding to other countries, mainly through transnational business dealings (internationalisation strategies).","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"34 1","pages":"183 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80647672","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 : 2020-08-13DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1801295
Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Caroline Kretschmer, D. Marconatto
Abstract Evidence about the influence of different business models (BMs) on the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is scarce and contradictory. In this paper, a meta-analytical study of the quantitative literature regarding BMs and SMEs is developed which overcomes biases commonly found in other, more limited works. We found that both innovation-based BMs (I-BMs) and efficiency-based BMs (E-BMs) positively affect the performance of SMEs, but also that, in countries with higher levels of entrepreneurial capabilities, the positive impact of I-BMs increases. We also identified that, while the existence of stronger capabilities in firms affects I-BMs positively, the size of SMEs impacts E-BMs favorably. Finally, key contributions of these findings for practitioners and scholars interested in the usefulness of BMs and their impact on SMEs are discussed.
{"title":"Antecedents, consequents and moderators of business models in SMEs: a meta-analytical research study","authors":"Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Caroline Kretschmer, D. Marconatto","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1801295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1801295","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Evidence about the influence of different business models (BMs) on the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is scarce and contradictory. In this paper, a meta-analytical study of the quantitative literature regarding BMs and SMEs is developed which overcomes biases commonly found in other, more limited works. We found that both innovation-based BMs (I-BMs) and efficiency-based BMs (E-BMs) positively affect the performance of SMEs, but also that, in countries with higher levels of entrepreneurial capabilities, the positive impact of I-BMs increases. We also identified that, while the existence of stronger capabilities in firms affects I-BMs positively, the size of SMEs impacts E-BMs favorably. Finally, key contributions of these findings for practitioners and scholars interested in the usefulness of BMs and their impact on SMEs are discussed.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"18 1","pages":"483 - 514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81703639","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 : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1786646
A. Kehbila
Abstract It is well known that 90 percent of all new ventures fail partly because they often lack vital resources, must compete against established companies but have little or no business acumen with which to compete and drive spectacular growth and profitability. Thus, just one-out-of-ten start-ups grow into successful, sustained enterprises. Although the academic literature attributes such sustained growth to innovative approaches for inducing transformative change, very few studies have attempted to address the five main components of strategic innovation management (strategic planning, business model innovation, marketing management, product innovation, and financial planning) within a single research framework. Building on insights from a systematic review of strategy and innovation management literature, this paper seeks to fill this important gap in the literature by introducing a decision-analytic framework for road mapping a go-to-market innovation strategy, comprising of well tightly integrated elements of strategy, business model innovation, marketing management, product innovation, and financial planning that mutually support each other as a system. The framework and its corresponding road mapping process create powerful alignment mechanisms to systematically map and analyse the underlying processes driving business performance and develop game-changing business plans to reshape industries, transform value chains, and drive spectacular growth and profitability.
{"title":"The entrepreneur’s go-to-market innovation strategy: towards a decision-analytic framework and a road mapping process to create radically successful businesses driving spectacular growth and profitability","authors":"A. Kehbila","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1786646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1786646","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is well known that 90 percent of all new ventures fail partly because they often lack vital resources, must compete against established companies but have little or no business acumen with which to compete and drive spectacular growth and profitability. Thus, just one-out-of-ten start-ups grow into successful, sustained enterprises. Although the academic literature attributes such sustained growth to innovative approaches for inducing transformative change, very few studies have attempted to address the five main components of strategic innovation management (strategic planning, business model innovation, marketing management, product innovation, and financial planning) within a single research framework. Building on insights from a systematic review of strategy and innovation management literature, this paper seeks to fill this important gap in the literature by introducing a decision-analytic framework for road mapping a go-to-market innovation strategy, comprising of well tightly integrated elements of strategy, business model innovation, marketing management, product innovation, and financial planning that mutually support each other as a system. The framework and its corresponding road mapping process create powerful alignment mechanisms to systematically map and analyse the underlying processes driving business performance and develop game-changing business plans to reshape industries, transform value chains, and drive spectacular growth and profitability.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"133 2 1","pages":"689 - 716"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91084157","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 : 2020-08-10DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1802095
François L'Écuyer, L. Raymond
Abstract There remains a knowledge gap and a theory-practice gap with regards to our understanding of the assimilation of e-HRM by SMEs. To fill these gaps, and from a capability-based view and a configurational perspective, we demonstrate that the firm’s e-HRM capabilities and high-performance work system (HPWS) capabilities enable its human resource (HR) function to the extent that these capabilities constitute strategically coherent configurations. Survey data obtained from 206 industrial SMEs were analysed with the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to answer the research question, that is, to identify the specific combinations of HPWS and e-HRM capabilities that are associated to high levels of performance of the HR function. Five configurations were thus identified, i.e. five different combinations of HPWS and e-HRM capabilities that equally lead to effective HRM in SMEs, labelled as HR-IT Analyzers, HR-IT Non-Prospectors1 and 2, and HR-IT Non-Defenders1 and 2. We found that a configurational approach is theoretically well-suited to apprehend the complex interplay of HR and IT resources that underlies the strategic HR-IT alignment process, and to better understand industrial SMEs’ strategic choices in this regard. Our findings also provide further comprehension of the strategic capabilities required by SMEs to enable their digital transformation.
{"title":"Enabling the HR function of industrial SMEs through the strategic alignment of e-HRM: a configurational analysis","authors":"François L'Écuyer, L. Raymond","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1802095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1802095","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There remains a knowledge gap and a theory-practice gap with regards to our understanding of the assimilation of e-HRM by SMEs. To fill these gaps, and from a capability-based view and a configurational perspective, we demonstrate that the firm’s e-HRM capabilities and high-performance work system (HPWS) capabilities enable its human resource (HR) function to the extent that these capabilities constitute strategically coherent configurations. Survey data obtained from 206 industrial SMEs were analysed with the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to answer the research question, that is, to identify the specific combinations of HPWS and e-HRM capabilities that are associated to high levels of performance of the HR function. Five configurations were thus identified, i.e. five different combinations of HPWS and e-HRM capabilities that equally lead to effective HRM in SMEs, labelled as HR-IT Analyzers, HR-IT Non-Prospectors1 and 2, and HR-IT Non-Defenders1 and 2. We found that a configurational approach is theoretically well-suited to apprehend the complex interplay of HR and IT resources that underlies the strategic HR-IT alignment process, and to better understand industrial SMEs’ strategic choices in this regard. Our findings also provide further comprehension of the strategic capabilities required by SMEs to enable their digital transformation.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"71 1","pages":"450 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74175353","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 : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1794666
S. Mago
Abstract Waves of migration have resulted in ‘migrant entrepreneurs’ who are often hailed for contributing to economic development, employment creation and poverty reduction in regions of their domicile. The link or nexus between migration and entrepreneurship is important today. While many studies have explained the link between migration and entrepreneurship, more needs to be known about how the link can function to integrate locals and migrants socially. Understanding the link is a crucial tool for locals-migrants social integration in Africa. This article identifies peer-reviewed journal articles, written in English, on migrant entrepreneurship, social integration and development in Africa, following a systematic literature review protocol. A systematic search of scholarly databases was performed using predetermined criteria. The paper seeks to contribute to closing the knowledge gap in the South African context. The results indicate a strong link between migration and entrepreneurship. They further show that migrant entrepreneurship is an important tool for economic development. Primary studies reviewed did not confirm that migrant entrepreneurship promotes social integration between locals and migrants. Conversely, social integration promotes migrant entrepreneurship. This was not consistent with literature sources on other contexts outside Africa.
{"title":"Migrant entrepreneurship, social integration and development in Africa","authors":"S. Mago","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1794666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1794666","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Waves of migration have resulted in ‘migrant entrepreneurs’ who are often hailed for contributing to economic development, employment creation and poverty reduction in regions of their domicile. The link or nexus between migration and entrepreneurship is important today. While many studies have explained the link between migration and entrepreneurship, more needs to be known about how the link can function to integrate locals and migrants socially. Understanding the link is a crucial tool for locals-migrants social integration in Africa. This article identifies peer-reviewed journal articles, written in English, on migrant entrepreneurship, social integration and development in Africa, following a systematic literature review protocol. A systematic search of scholarly databases was performed using predetermined criteria. The paper seeks to contribute to closing the knowledge gap in the South African context. The results indicate a strong link between migration and entrepreneurship. They further show that migrant entrepreneurship is an important tool for economic development. Primary studies reviewed did not confirm that migrant entrepreneurship promotes social integration between locals and migrants. Conversely, social integration promotes migrant entrepreneurship. This was not consistent with literature sources on other contexts outside Africa.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"413 - 449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90329664","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 : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1789827
Bill Williams, Luísa Carvalho
Abstract As family business research has expanded and evolved there has been a growing need to incorporate new methodological approaches in the field. This article introduces the use of Campbell’s monomyth as a technique for narrative smoothing when structuring interview data, particularly that relating to entrepreneurial trajectories. The authors exemplify its use by applying it as a lens to characterize the trajectory of a fourth-generation woman entrepreneur, a wine producer in rural Portugal, and they discuss insights provided by this approach. The case analyzed is also presented as an exemplar of a narrative featuring a successful lifestyle entrepreneur as hero, one that demonstrates an alternative model to the common image of entrepreneur as a tech-savvy male would-be millionaire.
{"title":"Trajectory of a fourth-generation female entrepreneur as seen through a monomyth lens – Casa Ermelinda Freitas","authors":"Bill Williams, Luísa Carvalho","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1789827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1789827","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As family business research has expanded and evolved there has been a growing need to incorporate new methodological approaches in the field. This article introduces the use of Campbell’s monomyth as a technique for narrative smoothing when structuring interview data, particularly that relating to entrepreneurial trajectories. The authors exemplify its use by applying it as a lens to characterize the trajectory of a fourth-generation woman entrepreneur, a wine producer in rural Portugal, and they discuss insights provided by this approach. The case analyzed is also presented as an exemplar of a narrative featuring a successful lifestyle entrepreneur as hero, one that demonstrates an alternative model to the common image of entrepreneur as a tech-savvy male would-be millionaire.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"12 1","pages":"53 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87362949","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 : 2020-07-25DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2020.1764732
B. Omotosho
Abstract The influence of social media cuts across human endeavors; notwithstanding, little is known regarding the experiences of entrepreneurs with social media and the dimensions of its influence on small scale business deeds. This study investigated the use of social media for business activity among craft entrepreneurs in southwest Nigeria. The study adopted quantitative and qualitative methods to elicit information from the respondents. Findings revealed that the respondents (74.0%) were familiar with major social media platforms and its relevance for business endeavors. However, lack of continuity with the platforms for business purposes was observed among the respondents as many of them have converted the platforms to personal use. Respondents attributed the loss of interest in the platforms to include; cost of maintaining the platforms; failure of the platforms to meet their professional demands; the prevalence of online fraudsters and network issues. Respondents may still need to be encouraged to appreciate the benefits of social media use for business as the usage has not translated to the expected business promotion. Policy makers and other stakeholders may also need to create a conducive atmosphere for the use of social media for business activities among entrepreneurs.
{"title":"Small scale craft workers and the use of social media platforms for business performance in southwest Nigeria","authors":"B. Omotosho","doi":"10.1080/08276331.2020.1764732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1764732","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The influence of social media cuts across human endeavors; notwithstanding, little is known regarding the experiences of entrepreneurs with social media and the dimensions of its influence on small scale business deeds. This study investigated the use of social media for business activity among craft entrepreneurs in southwest Nigeria. The study adopted quantitative and qualitative methods to elicit information from the respondents. Findings revealed that the respondents (74.0%) were familiar with major social media platforms and its relevance for business endeavors. However, lack of continuity with the platforms for business purposes was observed among the respondents as many of them have converted the platforms to personal use. Respondents attributed the loss of interest in the platforms to include; cost of maintaining the platforms; failure of the platforms to meet their professional demands; the prevalence of online fraudsters and network issues. Respondents may still need to be encouraged to appreciate the benefits of social media use for business as the usage has not translated to the expected business promotion. Policy makers and other stakeholders may also need to create a conducive atmosphere for the use of social media for business activities among entrepreneurs.","PeriodicalId":37293,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship","volume":"49 1","pages":"181 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74727577","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}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：