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We examine how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) industry-specific experience influences firm performance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. Drawing on the upper echelons perspective and learning theory, we propose an inverted U-shaped relationship between an SME CEO's industry-specific experience and firm performance. We also argue that country corruption and political instability moderate this relationship, resulting in lower performance for SME CEOs with little industry experience or many years of industry experience in countries with high corruption or political instability. We test our hypotheses using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey of firms in emerging economies from 2006 to 2019. The results support our hypotheses that corruption and political instability primarily hurt the performance of SMEs with CEOs having very long industry experience. We discuss implications of this research for scholars studying SMEs in lesser-developed institutional environments and how leaders may influence SME performance.

This study contributes to new debates about how hybrid entrepreneurship is related to specific psychological well-being dimensions (job, life, and leisure time satisfaction). To address this issue, Ardianti, Obschonka, and Davidsson (2022; AOD) published first empirical results in JBVInsights. They provide evidence for different effects on well-being, depending on how individuals have switched from or into hybrid entrepreneurship. By drawing on panel data from Germany, two studies are conducted. While study 1 replicates the original methodological approach, study 2 provides an extension by applying cross-model coefficient comparison tests. In study 1 we were able to replicate some of the original results presented by AOD. In contrast to the original study, we find that the switch from wage employment to hybrid entrepreneurship is negatively related to job and life satisfaction. Also, while AOD show that a switch from hybrid entrepreneurship to full-time entrepreneurship relates significantly to job and life satisfaction, we find no such effects. Finally, in study 2, we provide novel evidence that the effects induced by a job switch to hybrid and full-time entrepreneurship are significantly stronger for job satisfaction when compared to life and leisure time satisfaction.

Entrepreneurial persistence is crucial for venture success and entrepreneurs’ personal growth. Yet, the extant research on entrepreneurial persistence has largely remained disconnected. The current disjointed profusion of constructs and theories which we believe has made progress on understanding this important construct slower than is ideal. To address those issues, we conducted a systematic review and made explicit the nomological network of antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurial persistence and the related constructs of perseverance and tenacity. Our review identified potential theoretical and empirical issues of the current entrepreneurial persistence research and outlined areas and opportunities for future research.

Previous research has predominantly focused on cognitive antecedents related to the quality of new venture ideas (NVIs), resulting in a notable gap in understanding the influence of structural elements on NVIs. Drawing upon activation theory, we examine how the structure of the idea-generation framework, a dimension of routinization, influences NVI outcomes. To investigate this relationship, we conduct two separate studies: the first involving a student sample and the second involving practicing entrepreneurs. Our findings demonstrate an inverse U-shaped relationship between the structure in the idea-generation framework and the quality/quantity of NVIs. These findings contribute to the understanding of the antecedents that shape NVIs.

Entrepreneurial identity plays a crucial role in the entrepreneurial process. Although cross-cultural experience likely shapes entrepreneurial identity in enduring ways, we are not clear on how and why. Returnee entrepreneurs, who move between distinct sociocultural contexts, offer a valuable lens to explore how aspects of cross-cultural experience interact with entrepreneurial identity. Incorporating the concept identity play, we aim to explore how returnees process their cross-cultural experience in ways that shape their entrepreneurial identity when venturing back home. Adopting a qualitative design with 12 cases of returnee entrepreneurs, we develop a three-stage process model of identity play through which returnees navigate the differences between the host and home country to construct their entrepreneurial identity: envisioning, enacting, and refining. We suggest that it is the nexus of cross-cultural experience and entrepreneurial activities that this identity play manifests. We make contributions to the literatures on entrepreneurial identity and cross-cultural experience in entrepreneurship. In addition, we contribute to the meaningful heterodoxies section's call for a better understanding of how entrepreneurs moving between distinct cultures select cultural elements to generate valuable heterodoxies.

While users may be an important source of innovation, and even of entrepreneurship, we know little about the exact psychological mechanism that underpins user innovators' transition to user entrepreneurship (UE). In this study, we focus on user innovators' communitarian identity, which is a stable mindset that values the personalized bonds with a user community. Based on the theory of planned behavior, we hypothesize how this identity affects user innovators' intention regarding UE. We use survey data from 139 user innovators to show that user innovators' communitarian identity strengthens their subsequent attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavior control (PBC) regarding UE, and that the attitudes and PBC in turn strengthen their intentions to pursue UE. The findings highlight the direct effect of the communitarian identity on user innovators’ evaluation of UE and its indirect effect on their intention. They also provide insights into the individual factor that alleviates the lack of commercialization of user innovation.

This study explores the complexities of causes of success mentioned in entrepreneurs' narratives in a broadcasted context. Building on strategic self-presentation and attribution theories, we employed inductive methods to map the configurations of public narratives explaining entrepreneurial success. The data analyzed were gathered from 173 reflective interviews featuring entrepreneurs on the United States' National Public Radio, using machine learning techniques for semantic content analysis. The results show that entrepreneurs can adopt three strategic presentation narratives to explain success in entrepreneurship. Significantly different patterns emerge in the three strategic narrative configurations. First, “lucky charming” narratives reflect an ingratiation strategy, mentioning external and uncontrollable causes of success to increase the entrepreneurs’ likability for the audience. Second, “work striving” narratives use self-promotion strategies to push for recognition of accomplishments, efforts, and intellectual abilities. Third, “social connecting” narratives simultaneously make use of ingratiation and exemplification strategies, including capitalizing on the positive signals given by the social support attracted during their entrepreneurial journey. These three discourse patterns have implications for influencing reputation and driving business- and personal-related outcomes. The findings provide a better understanding of deliberate appearances by entrepreneurs in broadcast contexts and tools for nascent entrepreneurs to leverage their role models among those with acclaimed entrepreneurial success.

Problem-oriented research enables scholars to directly explore increasingly complex societal challenges, yet we still lack in-depth insight into the process of problem formulation. In this paper, we offer insight into this process by examining our 10-year engaged research study of Shorefast, a social enterprise based on Fogo Island, Canada, whose mission was to revitalize the community. We show how our research-practice collaboration evolved as a recursive process which we label as rapid problem formulation - a quickly shifting recursive process between problem definition and problem solution. By iterating quickly between problem and solution, researchers and practitioners can create greater impact as their understanding of the problem, and their search for solutions, deepens.

Within the entrepreneurship literature, there is a growing interest in understanding collective entrepreneurial approaches to tackling societal challenges. In this study, we examine the orchestration of collective action in an open social innovation project bringing together public administrations, citizens and organized civil society to collaboratively address several societal challenges. Analyzing data generated in-situ and in real-time over the entire duration of the project we show how social impact orchestration can generate impact through four pathways: lead user focus, solution focus, problem focus, and ecosystem focus. For each pathway, we show how orchestration enhanced the impact potential of stakeholders involved by enabling learning and scaling. Our study contributes to the literature on impact entrepreneurship and advances knowledge on orchestrating innovation for social impact.