Entrepreneurship

Meeting the Needs of SMEs in the Emerging Market Context

by Juliet Oriaifo, Rui Torres de Oliveira and Kimberly M. Ellis Emerging markets are known for their undeveloped market-based institutions. In these markets, firms, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs),…

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When capital does not matter in business creation

by Kim Marie Bischoff Have you ever thought about starting your own business? If yes, have you thought about money that you need for the business? Have you maybe even…

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The Story behind the SEJ Special Issue on “Catalyzing Change and Innovation in Women’s Entrepreneurship”

By Candida Brush Every research effort has a good background story, and here is ours. Last year, we attended the June 2019 Diana International Research Conference at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.[1] The…

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Do Differences Among Accelerators Explain Differences in the Performance of Member Ventures?

by Chien Sheng Richard Chan, Pankaj C. Patel & Phillip H. Phan Since Y-Combinator was founded in 2005, the business accelerator phenomenon has become a major tool to support innovation,…

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Entrepreneurial Judgment and Strategic Entrepreneurship

For this blog post, we asked Peter G. Klein to reflect on his article “Opportunity discovery, entrepreneurial action, and economic organization” which was published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal in…

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Decision Weaving: Entrepreneurs as both “Experiential Learners” and “Master Planners”

by Timothy Ott We often think of entrepreneurial firms in the 21st century as disrupters – agile, fast-moving ventures which can out-maneuver incumbents or upend entire industries. They rapidly experiment,…

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What do Venture Capitalists, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Martin Scorsese Have in Common?

By Cristiano Bellavitis, Joost Rietveld, Igor Filatotchev Have you ever wondered whether Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese should work on yet another movie together? Or why Greylock Partners and Sequoia…

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Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…

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Fear vs. Hope: Which is Stronger in Venture Termination/Escalation Decisions?

by Laura Gasiorowski The authors use a longitudinal simulation design in which debt and loss increase over time. They find that group hope and its effect on escalating commitment trumps…

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Directed by Words: How Entrepreneurs Rely on Salient Frames to Devise a Market Entry Strategy

by Kisha Lashley Language is powerful; scholars have shown that organizations rely on language to guide stakeholder interpretations to create value for the focal firm. For example, entrepreneurial firms can…

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