International Review of Entrepreneurship: Recent submissions
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Is Digitalization Affected by the Entrepreneur’s Gender? Evidence for Spanish SMEs in the Service and Retail Sectors
(Senate Hall, 2022)This study investigates the role of the entrepreneur’s gender on digitalization strategies undertaken by SMEs in the service and retail sectors. Specifically, we aim at testing how the gender of the entrepreneur may affect ... -
From IT Investment Opportunity to Realising Investment at Scale
(Senate Hall, 2022)Investing in information technology allows firms to enhance their capabilities and performance and in doing so grow and create value. Yet we still lack a detailed understanding about how this process occurs. In this paper ... -
Challenges of E-Commerce Adoption Experienced by Pakistani SMEs: A Qualitative Analysis
(Senate Hall, 2022)This study explores the various contextual challenges that SMEs face in adopting e-commerce in Pakistan. To satisfy the study aim, a qualitative method of research was selected, comprising semi-structured face-to-face and ... -
Intention to Adopt Digital Technology in Businesses: Promoted by Early and Recent Digitalization and Embedded in Societal and Temporal Contexts
(Senate Hall, 2022)How, in a business, is intention to adopt digital technology shaped by early and recent digitalization and by embeddedness in socio-temporal contexts? A representative sample of 8,031 businesses in Spain and non-European ... -
Exploring Risk Management Issues in the Technological Sector: The Effect of the Use of Derivatives Hedging on Technology Firms’ Value
(Senate Hall, 2022)Entrepreneurship is synonymous with “bearing risk”. In a technological context, the risks are much higher. The implementation of risk management instruments is therefore essential for entrepreneurs in the technological ... -
Recognizing International Opportunities by Born-digital Entrepreneurs: A Qualitative Approach
(Senate Hall, 2022)This article conducts an in-depth investigation of International Opportunity Recognition in a Born Digital Start-up based on how entrepreneurs’ decisions drive the new firm’s internationalization behaviour and explores the ... -
Decide to Digitalize! Barriers, Drivers and the Entrepreneurial Cognition Perspective
(Senate Hall, 2022)This article introduces the special issue on Barriers, drivers and the cognition perspective in the entrepreneur’s decision to digitalize, comprising nine papers. Its first main aim is to understand how entrepreneurs, ... -
The Effects of Intuition and Analysis on High-Tech Opportunity Exploitation Decisions
(Senate Hall, 2022)In the dynamic high-tech industry, entrepreneurs need to make timely decisions on various matters including opportunity identification and exploitation. Past research found intuition to positively predict the number and ... -
Theories of Financing for Entrepreneurial Firms: A Review
(Senate Hall, 2022)This article provides an overview of literature related to capital structure theories for entrepreneurial firms. It identifies gaps and controversial areas in existing literature and also discusses potential directions for ... -
The Effect of Entrepreneurial Networks on New Technology-Based Firms’ Growth: The Mediating Role of Growth Orientation
(Senate Hall, 2022)Small high-tech firms usually engage in networking to overcome their lack of resources. Entrepreneurial networks can provide valuable social capital resources that enhance the growth possibilities of new technology-based ... -
The Influence of Career Choice Intentions on New Venture Creation in Algeria, Sierra Leone, and South Africa
(Senate Hall, 2022)This paper analyses the influence that career choice intentions, including entrepreneurial intentions, have on new venture creation among African university students. In addition to that, we explore how social context may ... -
Does Born Global Survival Differ From Other Start-Ups? Employee- versus Firm-level Resources
(Senate Hall, 2022)In this paper we embark from a resource-based view to explain hazard rates among new firms. Whereas previous research primarily has approximated firms’ resource bases with size and performance variables (e.g., productivity), ... -
The Side-Hustle: An Emergent Typology of Entrepreneurs as Employees
(Senate Hall, 2022)In this paper we present the experiences of high-tech entrepreneurs who have become employees in high-tech companies. The entrepreneurs in this study are all hybrid entrepreneurs who returned to full-time employment and ... -
“When to Hold and When to Fold”: Simulating Portfolio Returns to Angel Investing in Early Stage Ventures
(Senate Hall, 2022)We use a large scale simulation to explore returns to angel investing in the context of real-world constraints in the first empirical examination of investment timing, termination and re-investment. Prior studies calculate ... -
How Universities’ Dynamics and Initiatives Are Related to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review
(Senate Hall, 2022)Universities are increasingly being pressured to perform their third mission, playing as a catalyst of technological change, innovation, and societal and economic development. Universities respond to the emerging challenges ... -
Social Entrepreneurship Education Literature: An Ecological Narrative Review
(Senate Hall, 2022)In this paper, we provide a narrative review of thirteen years of literature about Social Entrepreneurship Education (SEE). To grasp its controversies, the main topics of interest and evolutions across time and space (i.e., ... -
Evaluating Mentorship-based Learning in Entrepreneurship Education
(Senate Hall, 2022)Entrepreneurship education impacts students’ entrepreneurial intentions. However, the role of teachers’ mentorship in influencing students’ entrepreneurial intentions has received little attention in the extant literature. ... -
Covid or not Covid? Psychological Distress and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Canadian Workers during the Pandemic
(Senate Hall, 2022)Triggering events can be associated with entrepreneurial intentions. Using data from a survey on the mental health of Canadian workers carried out in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we specifically test the ... -
Heterogeneity among Self-Employed Digital Platform Workers. Evidence from Europe
(Senate Hall, 2022)This study examines the prevalence, types of activities, and characteristics of self-employment into digital platform work. Among others, we wonder if self-employment is the natural employment status to perform this type ... -
Firm-level Impact of Regulatory Compliance Costs on Small Business Growth
(Senate Hall, 2022)Using firm-level data from a survey conducted in 2019 among a representative sample of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines, we test whether time and monetary costs of regulatory compliance have a ...
