Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2277791
Anna Jenkins, Leona Achtenhagen, Karin Hellerstedt
Recent research on entrepreneurial failure has started to investigate the impact of failure on entrepreneurs and how this influences their motivation and willingness to engage in subsequent entrepreneurial ventures. We approach this topic from an alternative perspective, focusing on former entrepreneurs seeking to return to paid work and exploring how their experience of venture failure is perceived and appraised by employers in the recruitment process. Such perceptions matter because employers are gatekeepers to the employment market and thus their appraisals influence how easily former entrepreneurs can re-integrate themselves in the paid workforce. We conducted 30 interviews with employers in growing human-capital intensive companies in Sweden, asking these recruiters about their perceptions of former entrepreneurs and how their evaluations affected their hiring decisions. Conceptually, we frame our study using a process model of stigmatization by nuancing this model with fine-grained analyses of employers’ perceptions and appraisals of applicants’ entrepreneurial failure experiences in the recruitment process. This analysis identifies some of the key conditions that lead employers either to value or devalue an applicant’s experience of entrepreneurial failure, further indicating the implications of this finding for entrepreneurs’ careers and prospects of gaining paid employment.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2277788
Alexandra Gaidos, C. Gurău, F. Palpacuer
ABSTRACTStudies of social incubators illustrate the importance of these organizations in promoting social innovations and entrepreneurship at regional level. However, little is known about the main categories of contingency factors that influence the organizational design and fit of social incubators. We apply a comparative case study methodology to analyse the mission, structure and activity of four pioneer social incubators, located in Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Romania. Our findings reveal four categories of regional contingency factors – social needs, institutional framework, entrepreneurial ecosystem and socio-economic characteristics – that influence the design of the incubators’ mission, structure and activity and determine the achievement of organizational fit. By employing a contingency lens, we propose a dynamic model that explains the interdependence between the social incubators’ profiles and specific regional contingencies.KEYWORDS: Social incubatorssocial entrepreneurshipcontingency perspectiveorganizational fitcomparative case study approachintermediary organizations Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2275193
David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Rosa Caiazza, Mark D. Drapeau, Matthias Menter, William J. Wales
As digitalization continues to reshape industries and markets, digital transformation and creation of a ‘digital safety net’ has emerged as a prominent mechanism for entrepreneurial resilience. Digitally advanced entrepreneurs harness technology and innovative business models and adopt agile strategies to grow, while digitally-uncertain entrepreneurs struggle to maintain their business models and customers. Digital transformation has been pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled greater diversification, enhanced adaptability, improved access to global markets, and novel forms of knowledge collaboration, altogether increasing firms’ ability to survive and grow. Understanding the mechanisms and implications of the relationship between digital technologies and entrepreneurial resilience is essential for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to develop rapid policy responses.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2265324
Bingbing Ge, Eleanor Hamilton, Kajsa Haag
Family is the most important, yet under researched, dimension in family business research. Following recent calls in Entrepreneurship-as-Practice, we bring a practice-based approach to family business research to understand next generation engagement over extended periods in family life. Drawing on a culinary family business’s three published cookbooks, theorized as ‘discursive artefacts’, we examine how mundane family business practices can enable next generations to become successors. This study contributes to family business research with its re-focus on the family and offers new insights into practice theory-building in the emergent Entrepreneurship-as-Practice. Our findings illustrate how everyday practices in family lives – for example, cooking – can enable next generations’ becoming family business successors, through socializing, bridging, and leading.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2265327
Sanjay Chaudhary, Amandeep Dhir, N. Meenakshi, Michael Christofi
ABSTRACTDespite crises being a dominant theme in organizational research, little inquiry has been conducted into how small firms built resilience and coped with uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we explore the challenges faced by small firms during this crisis and how they handled it and built resilience. We collected qualitative data using the open-ended essay method to answer our research questions. Findings reveal that small firms encountered challenges that were predominantly related to employees, technology, and liquidity. Three key paradoxes also emerged during the crisis: short-term and long-term performance, efficiency and adaptability, and safety and profit. The findings further revealed that small firms employed digitalization, prior and new knowledge, and leadership to cope with these challenges. By elucidating these challenges and coping strategies, the research contributes to the existing literature on resilience in small firms. Our findings emphasize that the survival prospects of small firms during the COVID-19 crisis depended on understanding potential paradoxes that needed to be resolved and utilizing the coping mechanisms developed to build resilience.KEYWORDS: Disruptionscrisesorganizational resiliencechallengesparadoxcopingdigitalizationsmall firms Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2261393
Heidi Wiig, Peter Kalum Schou, Birte Hansen
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2264803
Claudia Gomez, B. Yasanthi Perera, Lucas M. Engelhardt
ABSTRACTDespite contributing to host country economies, there is limited examination of self-employed female immigrants in the literature. While human, social, and financial capital are important for entrepreneurship in general, given immigrant women’s intersectional identities, the potential exists for these factors to affect them differently. This study uses US data obtained from Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) to empirically test the relationship of human, social, and financial capital on female immigrants’ self-employment and compares these relationships with US-born women and male immigrants. While the results are mixed, overall, the findings suggest that female immigrants’ odds of being self-employed, in relation to their levels of human, social, and financial capital, are influenced to a greater extent by their immigrant identity than their gender identity. Implications for future research and public policy are discussed.KEYWORDS: Female entrepreneursimmigrant entrepreneursself-employmentsocial capitalhuman capitalfinancial capital Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available in [OAKS at https://oaks.kent.edu/dataset/human-family-and-financial-capital-immigrant-women-entrepreneurs-subset-ipums-data-0, reference number [reference number]. These data were derived from the following resource available in the public domain: [https://usa.ipums.org/usa/]
摘要尽管对东道国经济做出了贡献，但文献中对自雇女性移民的考察有限。虽然人力、社会和金融资本对创业一般来说很重要，但鉴于移民妇女的交叉身份，这些因素可能会对她们产生不同的影响。本研究使用综合公共使用微数据系列(IPUMS)获得的美国数据，实证检验了人力资本、社会资本和金融资本对女性移民自主创业的关系，并将这些关系与美国出生的女性和男性移民进行了比较。虽然结果喜忧参半，但总体而言，研究结果表明，女性移民在人力、社会和金融资本水平方面成为个体经营者的几率，在更大程度上受到移民身份的影响，而不是性别身份。讨论了对未来研究和公共政策的影响。关键词:女企业家移民企业家自营职业社会资本人力资本财务资本披露声明作者未发现潜在的利益冲突。数据可用性声明支持本研究结果的数据可在[OAKS at https://oaks.kent.edu/dataset/human-family-and-financial-capital-immigrant-women-entrepreneurs-subset-ipums-data-0]中获得，参考编号[参考编号]。这些数据来自以下公共领域的资源:[https://usa.ipums.org/usa/]
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2262430
Alexander Engelmann
This study investigates organizational sensing, seizing, and transforming, which are critical activities in developing and exercising dynamic capabilities (DCs)––an organization’s capacity to reconfigure its resources in response to a changing environment. Previous research on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has predominantly focused on well-established business processes that are considered functional DCs, including product development, portfolio planning, and customer management, highlighting their role in facilitating resource reconfiguration. However, these studies implicitly assume the existence of functional DCs, without explaining what contributes to their development. We build on recent theoretical arguments emphasizing the performative dimensions of the DC construct and examine how SME practitioners sense and seize opportunities and threats, and subsequently transform their resources and operations. Our findings highlight a series of practices employed in ongoing social interactions to develop functional DCs or reconfigure established routines. These practices are situated in social interaction contexts characterized by distinct modes of communication, including resonance, generativity, and call for action. By offering a communicative explanation of the performance and dynamization of sensing, seizing, and transforming, this study underscores the pivotal role of interpersonal dynamics in facilitating resource reconfiguration.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2246045
Helene Mueller, Martina Pieperhoff
ABSTRACT Research on necessity entrepreneurship has increased in the last decade, with studies investigating the phenomenon in different contexts and applying numerous theories. Such diverse research activity has affected the use of the term necessity entrepreneurship and its applicability and, in turn, limited the overall understanding of the concept. Moreover, because little effort has been made to synthesize the body of literature on necessity entrepreneurship, no organized framework exists that allows researchers to theorize and contextualize the complexity of the concept. To fill that gap, we conducted an integrative, systematic literature review of 252 articles published on the topic between 1986 and 2022. In inductive qualitative analysis, we identified applied theories, antecedents, and manifestations exhibited in the field, along with outcomes and critical voices in the literature. We aggregated our findings into a framework and here provide a comprehensive, organized overview of the literature on necessity entrepreneurship. In doing so, we contribute to a multilevel perspective on necessity entrepreneurship and indicate numerous paths for future research.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2243465
Theodor Vladasel
ABSTRACT Family background matters for entrepreneurship, but why do siblings differ in their propensity to become entrepreneurs and the type of ventures they pursue? I draw on family socialization and resource allocation theories to develop hypotheses about the differential effects of family structure – comprising birth order, family size, and sibling gender – on (growth-oriented) entrepreneurship. Using firm incorporation as a marker of growth orientation, I test these hypotheses in a sample of Swedish siblings. Relative to older siblings, later born children are more likely to become unincorporated entrepreneurs, partly because they occupy family niches corresponding to lower educational attainment and higher labour market frictions. Moreover, children in very large families are less likely to pursue incorporation, with stronger effects for men and earlier born children, in line with their limited ability to develop self-efficacy due to resource dilution. Growing up with an opposite-gender sibling does not influence entrepreneurship, indicating that sibling sex composition may not foster stronger gender norms or sex-typing in this domain in Sweden. This study integrates existing findings and offers novel insights, broadening our understanding of family background in entrepreneurship.
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