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Entrepreneurship has emerged as a vibrant and dynamic field of academic inquiry, capturing the attention of scholars in management and other social science and engineering disciplines. Its significance extends beyond academia to policymakers and practitioners, who recognize entrepreneurship's crucial role in economic development, innovation and societal progress. This introductory study to the special issue summarizes the four papers in the special issue, takes stock of entrepreneurship as a maturing academic field and charts new directions for future research. We also demonstrate how each of the papers is located at the crossroads or intersection of multiple logics and/or disciplines and/or contexts (e.g., geography) and the interaction of these dimensions. Finally, we highlight the dynamic nature of entrepreneurship as an academic field.

In the past 30 years, the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship (KSTE) has emerged as a prominent explanation of how knowledge created by incumbent firms leads to knowledge commercialization and new firm formation. This study systematically reviews 130 key contributions and offers an understanding of the KSTE's role in shaping other fields of science. Our analysis identifies five distinct research themes influenced by KSTE, namely, open innovation, economic geography, knowledge transfer, academia, and international business. Moreover, these themes are interrelated and feature a range of prominent research fields, such as family business, knowledge transfer, innovation, knowledge management, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Based on these literature themes, we develop a multi-level approach for a more nuanced understanding of the KSTE. We then explain the interrelated nature of these themes and discuss future research directions.

Safety voice – the cornerstone of safe workplaces – is a form of safety communication in which an employee speaks up about workplace safety-related issues with constructive intentions to help prevent incidents, reduce hazards and improve overall safety of the work environment. When workers feel comfortable speaking up about safety concerns, organizations are gifted with opportunities to take proactive measures to protect their workforce. Through the lens of social exchange theory, this review presents the results of a meta-analytic compilation of 49 independent studies with a total of 50856 participants. Utilizing meta-analyses, meta-regressions and meta-analytic path analyses, we explore a series of research questions investigating safety-related and general work-related factors associated with safety voice, and examine how safety voice relates to workplace safety behaviours and outcomes. Findings suggest that safety voice (1) is significantly more prevalent when work environments, organizational leaders and workers at all levels are safety-supportive, (2) is positively associated with safety compliance behaviour and (3) can help to explain employees’ safety compliance behaviour, beyond safety knowledge and safety motivation alone. We discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice.

Ever since the rise of the Internet, digitalization has been increasingly shaping firms’ business processes and models. The rapid rise of digital technologies has perhaps even changed some of the fundamentals of strategy, including strategic decision-making, cognition, discourse and practices. However, limited effort has been made to structure the strategy-oriented academic discourse in the digitalization era. This essay begins by defining and positioning the digital transformation from a strategic perspective. We provide grounds for this essay based on the existing research on a literature search and review to add theoretical structure to the field through the bibliometric mapping of 626 digital transformation studies from high-quality academic journals (AJG3 and AJG4 journal quality levels). Based on the analysis, we identify four clusters of research perspectives: (1) digital transformation, (2) digital strategy, (3) digital business model innovation and (4) digital marketing. Our essay contributes to the emerging digital transformation literature by positioning these different perspectives in digital phenomena that are relevant and adjacent to strategy and strategizing. Finally, we position the special issue papers in the research perspectives identified, and we suggest potential avenues for future research.

Although the literature on corruption is extensive, it is also fragmented, with inconsistencies and inconclusive findings that limit theoretical and practical advancements. Scholars have called for multi-factor, multi-level frameworks that integrate macro, micro and longitudinal aspects to provide a more cohesive understanding of corruption's persistence and mitigation. This study addresses these calls through a systematic literature review, offering a critical synthesis of structural and agential perspectives on corruption. Thereby it identifies gaps in existing scholarship and proposes an integrated framework that situates corruption within the interaction of two key dimensions: institutional resource allocation and institutional maturity. By drawing on institutional logics, it positions corruption and anti-corruption as outcomes of competing institutional logics, shaped by the resources committed to their embedding. This perspective enables a dynamic examination of how structure and agency interact to sustain or challenge corruption. Specifically, it accounts for how institutional resources either reinforce dominant logics or enable shifts towards alternative, reformist logics. It allows for the study of dynamic feedback loops and pathways that influence corruption's evolution. Resource allocation and institutional maturity interact recursively, shaping institutional logics over time. These dynamics highlight the role of feedback loops in driving corruption escalation, stabilization or reform. By synthesizing insights from the literature, the study highlights pathways for future research, including investigating the role of institutional resource allocation, temporal dynamics and the mechanisms underlying transitions between stages of corruption. It reconciles theoretical tensions between structural and agential accounts, offering actionable insights for scholars and policymakers.

In an era of increasing digitalization, automation and fast production, craft has experienced a significant revival. Producers and consumers, by interacting at individual, dyadic and group levels, influence the craft market with positive and negative connotations. This generates a complex and dynamic environment, where multiple meanings and values intersect. To fully understand this environment, it is essential to integrate the perspectives of both producers and consumers, considering their diverse viewpoints and levels of engagement. Using Service-Dominant Logic (S-D Logic) as a theoretical framework, this paper reviews studies on craft through a multi-level lens, identifying resources applied by producers and consumers at individual and community levels. These resources interact with institutions generating a complex set of meanings and values across micro, meso and macro levels. Key contrasts arise from these interactions, suggesting areas for future research. These include (a) producers’ affective commitment and personal well-being versus contemporary market dynamics and economic rewards; (b) authenticity, care and custodianship, opposition to the mass market versus innovation and creativity; (c) collaborative market value, care and custodianship versus creativity and innovation of community members; (d) opposition to mass market, care and custodianship and the risk of craft-washing. These findings provide a new conceptualization of the craft market by holistically and dynamically integrating producers' and consumers' literature. Furthermore, they offer valuable insights for producers, policymakers and institutions on the importance of considering multiple perspectives when dealing with the opportunities and challenges of this market.

Academic spin-offs (ASOs), a distinct form of hybrid venture, operate at the intersection of economic (business) and non-economic (academic) logics. Although traditional literature often portrays these logics as inherently conflicting, emphasizing the trade-offs ASOs must manage, recent empirical findings challenge this view, suggesting that integrating academic and business logics can be beneficial. This paper presents a systematic review of the ASO literature, leveraging the concept of duality to explore the dynamic interplay between academic and business logics. The duality perspective underscores the importance of considering both complementarities and oppositions between seemingly incompatible logics. By synthesizing existing empirical findings, we propose a framework that clarifies how the oppositions and complementarities between academic and business logics influence ASOs’ academic and business outcomes. Our framework highlights the need for more nuanced, dynamic and multilevel approaches in studying ASOs, offering future research directions that embrace the duality perspective. This integrative view aims to inspire further investigation into hybrid ventures, illustrating how economic and non-economic logics can jointly foster both non-economic and economic outcomes.

We conducted a systematic literature review on international knowledge transfer (IKT) via international entrepreneurship (IE), synthesising fragmented research that employs various conceptualisations, methodological approaches and theoretical lenses. Based on a review of 40 articles, we inductively developed an analytical framework comprising four key elements: international knowledge, international knowledge agents, IKT processes and outcomes. Our review identifies three dominant types of international knowledge agents in IE: returnee entrepreneurs, transnational entrepreneurs and international corporate entrepreneurs who actively engage in IKT. Three distinctive IKT processes emerge: one-way knowledge transfer, two-way knowledge transfer and interactive knowledge transfer, which result in outcomes at individual, organisational, regional and national levels, as well as at their intersections. Guided by this framework, we identify and analyse key research themes, highlighting main methodological and theoretical approaches, and revealing significant gaps and inconsistencies. Our paper advances knowledge on IKT via IE by developing an integrated framework that provides conceptual clarity and a cohesive understanding of this intentional, systematic, outcome-oriented process. Our analytical framework facilitates the identification of future research directions along the dimensions of 5Cs: complementarity of knowledge, (re-)contextualisation of knowledge, connectivity of knowledge, community capitalism and cross-disciplinary research.

International business research emphasizes the importance of geopolitics to multinational enterprise (MNE) strategic decision-making. Yet, insights and evidence are dispersed across levels of analysis and disciplinary perspectives, making it difficult to determine how exactly MNEs respond to geopolitics. Leveraging a sample of 93 papers from journals in strategy, international business and management, we clarify the impact of geopolitics on home and host country relations and the interplay with MNE strategic decision-making. In advancing existing knowledge boundaries, we make sense of MNE responses to geopolitically induced uncertainty by accounting for MNEs’ heterogeneous political capabilities and investment real options. We show that when MNEs have strong political capabilities, they often opt for a shaping engagement response to influence home–host country relations. However, weak political capabilities limit investments with flexible real options and restrict investments with committed real options, leading to adaptive engagement, non-engagement and exit responses. Finally, we outline an agenda for future studies on the topic.