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Utilizing autoethnography in entrepreneurship research 自我民族志在创业研究中的应用

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00587

Shawn Bucher , David Gras

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Cascading failure: How legitimacy unravels in nascent industries 级联失败：新兴行业的合法性如何瓦解

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00582

David L. Deeds , Yasuhiro Yamakawa , Shinwon Noh

Emerging industries depend on legitimacy, the collective perception that a new sector is appropriate, credible, and desirable enough to attract resources and grow. While prior research emphasizes legitimacy building, far less is known about how legitimacy collapses in nascent sectors. Studies that do examine legitimacy collapse have largely focused on established industries, leaving its dynamics in emerging fields underexplored. Drawing on a cognitive and institutional entrepreneurship perspective, this article theorizes the process of legitimacy collapse, identifying five triggers of collapse: hype and unmet expectations, technological failures, ethical controversies, regulatory crackdowns, and economic downturn. Using illustrative cases, we show how these triggers reshape media narratives and cognitive frames, producing negative spillovers across ventures. Legitimacy loss can stall or dissolve entire industries, though in some cases it prompts institutional strengthening. We propose a multi-dimensional view of legitimacy collapse (cognitive, pragmatic, moral, and socio-political) that highlights cross-dimensional cascades and the role of entrepreneurial agency in mitigating the collapse. The key insight of our study is that legitimacy in emerging industries can rapidly collapse not only because of obvious failures, but also because the very forces that once built legitimacy can unravel it.

新兴产业依赖于合法性，也就是人们普遍认为，一个新的行业是合适的、可信的，并且足以吸引资源并实现增长。虽然先前的研究强调合法性的建立，但对新兴行业的合法性如何崩溃知之甚少。研究合法性崩溃的研究主要集中在成熟的行业，而对新兴领域的动态研究不足。本文从认知和制度创业的角度出发，对合法性崩溃的过程进行了理论化，确定了五个引发合法性崩溃的因素：炒作和未实现的期望、技术失败、伦理争议、监管打击和经济低迷。通过举例说明，我们展示了这些触发因素如何重塑媒体叙事和认知框架，从而在企业之间产生负面溢出效应。合法性的丧失可能会使整个行业停滞或解散，尽管在某些情况下，它会促使制度得到加强。我们提出了合法性崩溃的多维视角（认知、实用、道德和社会政治），强调了跨维度的级联和企业代理在缓解崩溃中的作用。我们研究的关键见解是，新兴行业的合法性可能迅速崩溃，不仅是因为明显的失败，还因为曾经建立合法性的力量可能会破坏它。

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From heterodoxy to debate: Advancing contentious issues in entrepreneurship 从异端到辩论：推动创业中有争议的问题

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00544

Robert J. Pidduck , Daniel R. Clark , Reginald Tucker

Over the past few years an ongoing section of the journal sought to engage scholarly conversation surrounding the unorthodox or unconventional ideas, cultures, contexts, and approaches typically overlooked yet insightful for mainstream entrepreneurship, termed “meaningful heterodoxies”. To grow beyond that initial mission, we herein launch the only dedicated forum for debating entrepreneurship's most thought-provoking or controversial ideas. In celebration of the journal's tenth year, we revisit the successes and challenges of “meaningful heterodoxies” but also set in motion what we hope is a simple yet impactful successor. A call-to-arms to stimulate valuable insights, for theory and practice, through a unique format of “for” and “against” debate submissions. We briefly unpack what makes for a good (bad) debate, its hallmark features and ethos, end with an explanation of the renewed section's format and the revised, ongoing submission process.

在过去的几年里，该杂志的一个持续的部分试图围绕非正统或非传统的思想、文化、背景和方法进行学术对话，这些思想、文化、背景和方法通常被主流企业家忽视，但却很有见地，被称为“有意义的异端”。为了超越这一最初的使命，我们在此推出唯一一个专门的论坛，讨论创业界最发人深省或最具争议的想法。在庆祝该杂志创刊十周年之际，我们回顾了“有意义的异端”的成功和挑战，同时也启动了一个我们希望简单但有影响力的继承者。通过一种独特的“赞成”和“反对”辩论提交形式，号召人们为理论和实践激发有价值的见解。我们简要地分析了什么是好的（坏的）辩论，它的标志特征和精神，最后解释了更新的部分的格式和修改后的，正在进行的提交过程。

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Is the best defense a good offense? Family firms, SEW resources, and strategic alliances 进攻是最好的防守吗？家族企业、SEW资源和战略联盟

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00579

Christopher R. Penney , Marcus T. Wolfe , Stephen E. Lanivich , Kyle Stockdall

It is well established that family firms are motivated and committed to preserving socioemotional wealth. Accordingly, theory generally employs a defensive approach concentrated on risky strategies that family firms should avoid. We seek to develop a complementary view that considers risky strategies family firms should embrace. We draw from the emerging SEW resource perspective to advance an offensive approach to corporate strategy using alliances. Using a 20-year sample of S&P 500 firms from 1996 to 2015, we find support for our theory. Family firms form more alliances than non-family firms. Moreover, family firm alliances are more likely to outperform. Family firms appear to be selective when choosing partners, managing risk, and achieving ambidexterity across the alliance portfolio.

众所周知，家族企业有动力并致力于保护社会情感财富。因此，理论通常采用一种防御方法，集中于家族企业应该避免的风险策略。我们试图形成一种互补的观点，认为家族企业应该采取风险战略。我们从新兴的SEW资源角度出发，利用联盟推进企业战略的进攻性方法。使用1996年至2015年20年标准普尔500指数公司的样本，我们发现我们的理论得到了支持。家族企业比非家族企业形成更多的联盟。此外，家族企业联盟更有可能表现出色。家族企业在选择合作伙伴、管理风险和实现联盟投资组合的双重性方面似乎是有选择性的。

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Opening the black box: Exploring innovation pathways from entrepreneurial ecosystems to financial performance in healthcare organisations 打开黑箱：探索从创业生态系统到医疗保健组织财务绩效的创新途径

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00586

Marika Intenza , Nunzia Capobianco , Fabrizia Sarto , Sara Saggese

By adopting a sequential mixed-method research design, this study investigates the dynamics of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) and their influence on the financial performance of hospital facilities, as well as the mediating role of innovation. The analysis is focused on the Italian context and is structured around three interrelated research phases that integrate qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Main findings suggest that stronger EEs enhance the financial performance of Italian private healthcare organisations by fostering access to resources and collaboration. Besides, innovation has a nuanced mediating effect: while R&D investments support long-term innovation, tangible outputs such as patents are crucial for generating positive financial returns. As one of the first studies linking EEs to financial outcomes in healthcare, the paper highlights the distinct roles of innovation inputs and outputs. These findings offer insights into the complex mechanisms through which EEs influence financial performance, supporting strategic policy and management decisions.

本研究采用序贯混合方法研究设计，探讨创业生态系统的动态及其对医院设施财务绩效的影响，以及创新的中介作用。分析的重点是意大利的背景，并围绕三个相互关联的研究阶段，整合定性和定量方法。主要研究结果表明，更强的EEs通过促进获得资源和合作来提高意大利私人医疗保健组织的财务绩效。此外，创新具有微妙的中介效应：研发投资支持长期创新，而专利等有形产出对于产生积极的财务回报至关重要。作为第一批将电子产品与医疗保健财务结果联系起来的研究之一，本文强调了创新投入和产出的独特作用。这些发现为企业环境评估影响财务绩效、支持战略政策和管理决策的复杂机制提供了见解。

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Aesthetic appeal: How images inform emerging entrepreneurial themes 审美诉求：图像如何传达新兴的创业主题

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00552

Yanto Chandra , Jean Clarke , Robin Holt , Paula A. Kincaid , Jeremy C. Short , Marcus T. Wolfe

Entrepreneurship research has long privileged textual and linguistic approaches while overlooking the embodied, sensory, and symbolic aspects of entrepreneurial activity. Yet, entrepreneurs operate through aesthetic acts: they shape new organizational forms, influence new styles and tastes, and embody and extend novel techniques, and do so by holding onto ‘the image’ of an organization. In this editorial, we aim to curate articles published in JBVI to illustrate how aesthetics influences meaning-making, uncertainty navigation, and innovation in entrepreneurial practice and how, then, such an understanding of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship might also spur more aesthetically-charged forms of study. This editorial repositions aesthetics as central to entrepreneurship, highlighting its role in shaping the field's dynamic, multifaceted nature rather than treating it as a peripheral concern.

长期以来，创业研究一直重视文本和语言方法，而忽视了创业活动的具体、感官和象征方面。然而，企业家通过审美行为来运作：他们塑造新的组织形式，影响新的风格和品味，体现和扩展新的技术，并通过保持组织的“形象”来做到这一点。在这篇社论中，我们的目标是整理发表在JBVI上的文章，以说明美学如何影响创业实践中的意义创造、不确定性导航和创新，以及对创业现象的这种理解如何也可能刺激更多充满美学色彩的研究形式。这篇社论将美学重新定位为企业家精神的核心，强调其在塑造该领域动态、多面性方面的作用，而不是将其视为外围问题。

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Warnings warranted? Psychometric evaluation of a self-classification measure of social entrepreneurship 必要的警告?社会企业家精神自分类测量的心理测量学评价

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00583

Henrik Heinemann , Gavin Williamson , David Gras , Maximilian Weldert , Franz W. Mönke , Philipp Schäpers

Although empirical research on social entrepreneurs has blossomed recently, many studies have relied on a single-item self-classification measure to identify social entrepreneurs in their samples. Many researchers have warned that this measure may have conceptual, and thus psychometric, weaknesses. Responding to these warnings, we test psychometric properties (i.e., reliability, validity, and objectivity) of this measure using a sample of start-up founders (N = 186). We found neither strong reliability (with retests or peer-ratings) nor validity (convergent or nomological), whereas self-classification was substantially influenced by biases and socially desirable responding above and beyond theoretically relevant antecedents. We discuss how psychometric shortcomings of this frequently used measure might affect what we know about social entrepreneurs and call for the development of more suitable measures.

尽管最近对社会企业家的实证研究蓬勃发展，但许多研究都依赖于单项自我分类措施来识别样本中的社会企业家。许多研究人员警告说，这种测量方法可能存在概念上的缺陷，因而也存在心理测量上的缺陷。针对这些警告，我们使用创业公司创始人样本（N = 186）测试了该测量的心理测量特性（即可靠性、有效性和客观性）。我们既没有发现很强的信度（通过重新测试或同行评分），也没有发现有效度（趋同或符号学），而自我分类在很大程度上受到偏见和超出理论相关前因的社会期望反应的影响。我们讨论了这种经常使用的测量方法的心理测量缺陷如何影响我们对社会企业家的了解，并呼吁开发更合适的测量方法。

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The paradox of entrepreneurial cities: How business venturing inflates housing prices in China’s Silicon Valley 创业城市的悖论：商业风险如何推高中国硅谷的房价

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00585

Shuai Shi , Ruiyang Wang , Zhaoyingzi Dong

Promoting entrepreneurship has become a quintessential objective for cities aiming to achieve sustainable economic growth. However, a critical question remains unexamined: What extra costs do residents have to pay for living in an entrepreneurial city? We address this question by examining the impact of venture capital (VC)-backed entrepreneurship on housing prices in Hangzhou. VC investments not only offer financial support for high-growth startups but also boost market confidence for the locations where VC-backed startups are concentrated. From 2013 to 2019, a total of 3,101 Hangzhou-based startups secured VC investments, positioning the city as one of China's most entrepreneurial hubs. To address the endogeneity issue, we construct an instrument variable (IV) grounded in startups' alignment with government-prioritized strategic sectors and find that 1 % increase in the scale of startup clusters can inflate the price of proximate housing properties by 0.0434 %. Further, three mechanisms are identified behind this phenomenon, including increased housing demand, innovation-induced land premiums, and capital agglomeration effects. The key insight of our study is that, beyond creating economic gains, the clustering of VC-backed startups paradoxically inflates nearby housing prices, ringing an alarm for tech-led gentrification. This calls for policy interventions to balance innovation growth with housing affordability in entrepreneurial cities.

促进创业已成为城市实现可持续经济增长的重要目标。然而，一个关键的问题仍未得到研究：在一个创业型城市生活，居民需要支付哪些额外成本？我们通过考察风险投资（VC）支持的创业对杭州房价的影响来解决这个问题。风险投资不仅为高增长的初创企业提供资金支持，而且还增强了风险投资支持的初创企业集中的地区的市场信心。从2013年到2019年，共有3101家杭州创业公司获得了风险投资，使杭州成为中国最具创业精神的城市之一。为了解决内生性问题，我们构建了一个基于创业公司与政府优先战略部门的一致性的工具变量（IV），并发现创业集群规模增加1%可以使附近住房价格上涨0.0434%。此外，在这一现象背后还发现了三种机制，包括住房需求增加、创新引发的土地溢价和资本集聚效应。我们研究的关键观点是，除了创造经济收益之外，风投支持的初创企业的聚集反而推高了附近的房价，为科技主导的中产阶级化敲响了警钟。这就需要政策干预来平衡创新增长和创业城市的住房负担能力。

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From humans to machines: Researching entrepreneurial AI agents built on large language models 从人类到机器：研究基于大型语言模型的创业型人工智能代理

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00581

Martin Obschonka , Christian Fisch

Entrepreneurial AI agents (e.g., Large Language Models (LLMs) prompted to assume an entrepreneurial persona) represent a new research frontier in entrepreneurship. We explore whether such agents exhibit the structured profile of the human entrepreneurial mindset, a construct long established as a driver of entrepreneurial activity in humans. Drawing on the biological concept of host-shift evolution, we investigate whether the characteristic components of this mindset (i.e., basic personality traits, characteristic adaptations, and self-concept) emerge in a coherent constellation within AI agents. Using established psychological instruments, we examine whether entrepreneurial AI agents display systematic patterns that mirror the internal structure of the entrepreneurial mindset. Our findings indicate that such coherent profiles do emerge, consistent with a human-like entrepreneurial mindset structure. At the same time, our results highlight important limitations, including stereotype amplification and the likelihood that responses reflect statistical simulation or mimicry rather than genuine cognition. We argue that these findings signal a potential shift in entrepreneurship research: from focusing solely on the psychology of human entrepreneurs to also examining the simulated mindset structures of artificial entrepreneurial agents. This opens new research agendas on mindset–behavior consistency, human–AI collaboration, and the frameworks needed to study the emerging psychology of entrepreneurial AI.

创业型人工智能代理（例如，大型语言模型（llm））代表了创业领域的一个新的研究前沿。我们探索这些代理人是否表现出人类创业思维的结构化特征，这是一种长期以来被认为是人类创业活动驱动因素的结构。利用宿主转移进化的生物学概念，我们研究了这种心态的特征组成部分（即基本人格特征、特征适应和自我概念）是否在人工智能代理中出现在一个连贯的星座中。利用现有的心理学工具，我们研究了创业型人工智能代理是否表现出反映创业心态内部结构的系统模式。我们的研究结果表明，这种连贯的概况确实出现了，与类似人类的创业心态结构一致。同时，我们的结果强调了重要的局限性，包括刻板印象放大和反应反映统计模拟或模仿而不是真实认知的可能性。我们认为，这些发现标志着创业研究的一个潜在转变：从仅仅关注人类企业家的心理，到同时研究人工创业代理人的模拟心态结构。这为心态-行为一致性、人类-人工智能协作以及研究创业人工智能新兴心理学所需的框架开辟了新的研究议程。

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Power plays: Surfacing the hidden currents in entrepreneurial ecosystems 权力游戏：揭露创业生态系统中隐藏的潮流

Q1 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00584

Judith Terstriep , Alexandra David , Lukas Zaghow , Natalia Vershinina , Jörg Freiling

Entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) research has flourished, yet it continues to overlook how power shapes who can mobilize resources, legitimacy, and opportunity within these systems. This paper reframes power as a constitutive, and not incidental, dimension of ecosystem functioning. Integrating insights from Pfeffer's resource-dependence theory with Foucault's and Bourdieu's social perspectives, we develop a Power-Sensitive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Framework (PSEEF) that conceptualises power across micro (entrepreneurial identity), meso (network structures), and macro (institutional governance) levels. Our key insight is that power dynamics are the hidden mechanisms through which EEs determine who gains visibility and support, and whose ventures remain peripheral. Recognising these mechanisms enables scholars and practitioners to understand ecosystems not merely as collections of resources but as evolving arenas of legitimacy and control. The framework provides actionable tools for ecosystem leaders to diagnose and rebalance inequalities, advancing both the analytical and practical agenda for inclusive and high-performing EEs.

创业生态系统（EE）研究蓬勃发展，但它仍然忽视了权力如何塑造谁可以在这些系统中调动资源、合法性和机会。本文将权力重新定义为生态系统功能的构成维度，而不是偶然维度。将菲弗的资源依赖理论与福柯和布迪厄的社会观点相结合，我们开发了一个权力敏感型创业生态系统框架（PSEEF），将微观（企业家身份）、中观（网络结构）和宏观（制度治理）层面的权力概念化。我们的关键观点是，权力动力学是一种隐藏的机制，通过这种机制，企业高管决定谁获得知名度和支持，而谁的企业仍然处于次要地位。认识到这些机制使学者和实践者能够理解生态系统不仅是资源的集合，而且是合法性和控制的不断发展的舞台。该框架为生态系统领导者提供了可操作的工具，以诊断和重新平衡不平等，推进包容性和高绩效环境企业的分析和实践议程。

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