Pub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1177/02662426241269774
Richa Chugh, Audra I. Mockaitis, Stephen E. Lanivich, Javad E. Nooshabadi
Research regarding the influence of personality traits, such as narcissism, on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is burgeoning, yet the role of affective and cognitive mechanisms is under-examined. Drawing from research on conservation of resources (COR) theory, entrepreneurial cognition and emotion, we examine the narcissism-EO relationship nexus. Specifically, we analyse the mediating role of the resource-induced coping heuristic (RICH) and the moderating influence of fear on the relationship between narcissism and EO. Longitudinal data from CEO-entrepreneurs of SMEs in six countries were collected during the COVID-19 disruptions. Results suggest that the RICH fully mediates the relationship between narcissism and EO. Fear of COVID-19 (FC-19) positively influenced EO and strengthened the narcissism-RICH relationship. Further, pandemic-related disruptions negatively influenced EO and attenuated the positive influence of FC-19 on EO. These findings offer insight into the drivers of entrepreneurial behaviour during times of disruption.
有关自恋等人格特质对创业取向（EO）影响的研究正在蓬勃发展，但对情感和认知机制的作用却研究不足。我们借鉴资源保护（COR）理论、创业认知和情感方面的研究，探讨了自恋与创业取向之间的关系。具体而言，我们分析了资源诱导型应对启发式（RICH）的中介作用以及恐惧对自恋与 EO 关系的调节作用。在 COVID-19 干扰期间收集了六个国家中小企业首席执行官-企业家的纵向数据。结果表明，RICH 完全调节了自恋与 EO 之间的关系。对 COVID-19 的恐惧（FC-19）对 EO 有积极影响，并加强了自恋与 RICH 的关系。此外，与大流行病相关的干扰会对 EO 产生负面影响，并削弱 FC-19 对 EO 的积极影响。这些发现有助于深入了解混乱时期创业行为的驱动因素。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02662426241268328
Sanjay Chaudhary, Vishal K Gupta, Chitra Singla
Although entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is widely believed to benefit firms, it is increasingly considered necessary but insufficient for achieving superior firm performance. To better understand the circumstances under which EO is beneficial for firms, we adopt a resource-based perspective to introduce chief executive officer (CEO) servant leadership as a critical moderator of the EO–performance relationship. We validate our predictions using multi-point data from 170 small firms in India. The results reveal that three servant leadership behaviours – altruistic calling, wisdom and emotional healing – strengthen the EO–performance relationship. Furthermore, consistent with systems logic, the performance benefits of EO are found to be greater when the CEO servant leadership is closer to an ‘ideal’ configuration of behaviours. Overall, our findings contribute to a better understanding of the role of CEO leadership behaviours in fully actualising EO’s performance potential, thus illuminating the importance of aligning a firm’s strategic posture with other constructs of interest.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1177/02662426241269772
Mark D Packard, Per L Bylund
We advance the judgement-based approach at the foundational level to establish cognitive microfoundations and boundary conditions as a formal theory of entrepreneurship – entrepreneurial judgement theory (EJT). We build upon philosophy’s concept of intentionality to define and conceptualise judgement as the determination and instigation of intentions. Entrepreneurship begins when, through entrepreneurial judgement, intentions are turned entrepreneurial, that is, towards the pursuit of new economic value, and ends when those intentions are turned away again. We elaborate the dynamics of this process, which includes cascading judgements across nested intentions. We conclude by distinguishing EJT from its close relative, entrepreneurial action theory, and by connecting entrepreneurial judgement more explicitly to contemporary psychology research.
{"title":"Towards an entrepreneurial judgement theory: Building the cognitive microfoundations of entrepreneurial judgement","authors":"Mark D Packard, Per L Bylund","doi":"10.1177/02662426241269772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426241269772","url":null,"abstract":"We advance the judgement-based approach at the foundational level to establish cognitive microfoundations and boundary conditions as a formal theory of entrepreneurship – entrepreneurial judgement theory (EJT). We build upon philosophy’s concept of intentionality to define and conceptualise judgement as the determination and instigation of intentions. Entrepreneurship begins when, through entrepreneurial judgement, intentions are turned entrepreneurial, that is, towards the pursuit of new economic value, and ends when those intentions are turned away again. We elaborate the dynamics of this process, which includes cascading judgements across nested intentions. We conclude by distinguishing EJT from its close relative, entrepreneurial action theory, and by connecting entrepreneurial judgement more explicitly to contemporary psychology research.","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"153 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1177/02662426241267813
Seán O’Reilly, Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Francis J Greene
This study advances the understanding of cleantech commercialisation by adopting a market validation approach to analyse equity capital’s role in navigating the ‘Valley of Death’. Focusing on the three core financial milestones – revenue generation, profitability and retained earnings – we investigate 354 UK cleantech firms over 10 years and employ Cox proportional hazard models to explore whether equity capital speeds or slows the achievement of these three financial milestones. We conclude that equity capital-backed firms are slower across the Valley of Death. We discuss the implications of our findings for cleantech firms and those seeking to support the financing of cleantechs.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1177/02662426241263319
Johanna Gast, Frank Lasch, Frédéric Le Roy, Chloé Zanardi
A growing literature explores the phenomenon of simultaneous cooperating and competing firms. Mostly in strategic management, this literature primarily focused upon large firms. The dynamics of coopetition in small firms, including new and micro-firms, however, remains under-explored raising questions about how they both engage with and manage this complex paradoxical relationship. Shifting the focus in coopetition research to small firms is vital as despite many noted benefits, evidence suggests that liabilities of newness and smallness affect engagement in cooperative relationships. Due to the specificities of small firms, it remains unlikely that the knowledge derived from their larger counterparts will adequately reflect the drivers and mechanisms of small firm coopetition. How does coopetition unfold in the small firm sector? How do challenges and specificities of small firms influence principles and mechanisms identified by the literature on large firm coopetition? To analyse such issues, in this annual review article, we evaluate the emerging body of research on small firm coopetition. Connecting coopetition strategy with small firms and entrepreneurship, we provide a comprehensive review of this emerging literature drawing from which, we then formulate future research needs and directions.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1177/02662426241263322
Florian Koehne, Sarah Birrell Ivory
Due to urgent societal challenges, organisations increasingly prioritise principles of hybrid value creation over capitalist efficiency rationales. Bureaucratic governance arrangements are widely regarded as detrimental to these organisations and their capacity to drive social change and innovation. Yet, bureaucratic governance continues to dominate the organisational landscape, while alternative approaches remain largely absent or underdeveloped. In this article, we address this puzzle and explore the re-enchantment of collegiality as a polycratic intra-organisational governance concept. Our research is based on empirical evidence from two social enterprises, of which one failed and one succeeded, with a collegiality governance approach. We find that certain elements of traditional collegiality can be particularly problematic in practice and propose a neo-collegial framework that we regard as particularly suitable for the governance of hybrid organisations.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1177/02662426231217954
Fernando C Lit, Josephina CCM Huijben, Myriam MAH Cloodt, Erik Paredis
Circular start-ups (CSUs) are crucial for implementing a circular economy; yet, little research has been undertaken on the specific barriers they face. Through a case study of CSUs in the Dutch plastics industry, we identify several key barriers encompassing technology dependence, poor credibility, constrained resources, collaboration challenges, lack of knowledge and inadequate institutional support. Additionally, we highlight four success factors (SFs) that enable CSUs to compete in circular plastics: circular value proposition design, market sensitivity, networking prowess and circular ambidexterity. Our study shows that CSUs can enact these SFs as strategies-in-use to overcome barriers. Yet still, CSUs in plastics continue focusing on recycling-centric business models, limiting their potential to drive the transition more radically along the waste hierarchy. This calls for support from various entities such as entrepreneurial ecosystems as well as a multi-stakeholder perspective that considers their business models as interdependent with other actors in the plastics value chain.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1177/02662426231206818
Jeanette Engzell, Marianna Lena Kambanou
This article analyses the organisational and individual drivers and barriers to the implementation of circular business models (CBM) by incumbents and start-ups in the workwear industry. It is based on a qualitative study of 15 organisations in the Swedish workwear industry. Most incumbents are found to have either long-life models with hybrid elements, such as repair, or access models, while circular start-ups have a larger variety of CBMs, although the most common is gap exploiter. Internal organisational barriers mostly differ between the two groups; however, external organisational barriers are more significant and common, such as the low price of new workwear, a lack of demand and a lack of supporting policies, for example, public procurement. Several organisational drivers are identified, such as opportunities to deliver customer value, textile and digital innovations and environmental concerns. Drivers and barriers are influenced by both type of CBM and type of company. Individual drivers and barriers, which are often overlooked in literature, are found to be important to CBM implementation.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1177/02662426231210765
João J Ferreira, Ana Joana C Fernandes, Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas
A circular economy (CE) addresses the shift in economic systems from an unsustainable linear approach to a sustainable circular approach through start-ups and entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE). A single level of focus on CE research limits an understanding of the mechanisms fostering a transition towards CE. We conduct a systematic review of the macro–meso–micro interconnections between start-ups and EE in CE using bibliometric and content analyses to scope the literature without time boundaries. This exercise led to 90 articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. We contribute to literature on entrepreneurship and CE by building an integrative multi-level framework linked to the just and safe planetary boundaries by bridging macro-level explanations (public policies, regulations and infrastructure) and the meso-level (circular supply chains and circular ecosystems) and micro-level (circular start-ups and circular business models). The framework highlights social and environmental sustainability challenges, and just and safe close-loop production patterns.
循环经济（CE）是指通过初创企业和创业生态系统（EE），将经济系统从不可持续的线性方式转变为可持续的循环方式。对循环经济研究的单一关注限制了对促进向循环经济过渡的机制的理解。我们采用文献计量学和内容分析法，对创业企业与创业生态系统之间的宏观-中观-微观相互联系进行了系统性回顾，以确定文献的范围，不受时间限制。通过这项工作，我们从 Web of Science 和 Scopus 数据库中找到了 90 篇文章。我们通过将宏观层面的解释（公共政策、法规和基础设施）与中观层面（循环型供应链和循环型生态系统）和微观层面（循环型初创企业和循环型商业模式）连接起来，建立了一个与公正和安全的地球边界相关联的多层次综合框架，从而为有关创业和循环经济的文献做出了贡献。该框架强调了社会和环境可持续性挑战，以及公正和安全的闭环生产模式。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1177/02662426231222562
Carolin Maaßen, David Urbano
Circular start-ups (CSUs) are gaining popularity to radically rethink the linear resource flows of global production systems and adopt ambitious approaches towards a circular economy from inception. For CSUs, the institutional environment is particularly relevant; this is because the complex nature of sustainability challenges requires a deep engagement with institutions to drive transitions from linear to circular practices. This article analyses how and why institutional factors influence CSUs in the highly entrepreneurial region of Catalonia in Spain. Based on a multiple case study, our findings demonstrate that CSUs are affected by informal institutions through founder motivations, their ability to create opportunities and social values. Formal institutions influence CSUs regarding the previous experience of founders, accessible ecosystem actors and supportive laws and regulations. These findings are important for effective policymaking to develop adequate support mechanisms and understand the particular challenges and opportunities CSUs face compared to traditional start-ups.
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