{"title":"To Be, or Not to Be: The Combat of E-Commerce Davids and Brick-and-Mortar Goliaths in a Developing Country - Online Shopping Behavior in Uzbekistan","authors":"Farhod P. Karimov","doi":"10.4018/ijeei.297118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijeei.297118","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies online shopping behavior in transitioning markets in a business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce setting. A framework was adopted in which the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was extended with trust and instrumental factor (need for touch). The mediation effect of trust between the predictor variables perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and need-for-touch, and intention to shop online was tested. The analysis of the quantitative data revealed that both independent variables perceived usefulness and usability strongly affect consumer trust, and trust partially mediates between the predictors and intention to shop online. This lack of touch-and-feel in the e-commerce setting is mentioned frequently by respondents as one of the main reasons which keep customers away from buying goods online. Thus, it was also presumed that the need-for-touch is negatively related to intention to shop online. There is an opportunity for future research to focus on testing the touch-and-feel effect using specific products in the online setting.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130151119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-Platform-Enabled Transnational E-Entrepreneurship: Case Studies of Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand","authors":"Carson Duan","doi":"10.4018/ijeei.290822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijeei.290822","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines transnational e-entrepreneurs enabled by e-platforms through the lens of entrepreneurship process theories. The authors argue that transnational e-entrepreneurs engaging in necessity-driven e-entrepreneurship have been neglected in current related literature. This paper first proposes that transnational e-entrepreneurship research should be conducted in a framework of cross-country e-entrepreneurial ecosystem that combines host- and home-country entrepreneurial ecosystems and digital ecosystems. Then the framework was tested by case studies and proved to be valid. The paper found that e-platforms enabled necessity-driven transnational entrepreneurs to operate in the same manner with opportunity-drive entrepreneurship. The authors also conclude future research themes for transnational e-entrepreneurship study should separate necessity-driven and opportunity-driven entrepreneurs. It suggests the policymaker needs to emphasize necessity-driven e-entrepreneurs.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115351152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Gender Really Matter in Crowdfunding Campaigns?: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Susana Bernardino, J. F. Santos, Rita Silva","doi":"10.4018/ijeei.290824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijeei.290824","url":null,"abstract":"The research aims to understand whether gender can or not influence the success of crowdfunding (CF) campaigns. To attain this objective, entrepreneurs that launch a CF campaign in the PPL platform are surveyed in order to examine if gender influences the characteristics of the projects, the motivations and satisfaction with the campaigns, and the use of social media. The paper uses a quantitative approach, based on an online survey sent to the entrepreneurs who have used the Portuguese CF platform (PPL) for funding. The results indicate that there are no major significant gender differences in the use of CF through the Portuguese platform, the motivations for using CF or the success achieved. In both cases, social media play an essential role in CF campaigns. Only culture-related projects exhibit an association with gender. The results show that CF is a tool that can contribute to reducing the gender gap in entrepreneurship. The design of CF operations and capacity building programs for women could either be improved in accordance with the new insights of the study.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115057272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effectiveness of E-Entrepreneurship Training Programs in the Emerging Markets (GCC)","authors":"A. A. Bakri","doi":"10.4018/ijeei.290821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijeei.290821","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to examine the effectiveness of e-entrepreneurship training programs (EETP) content (curriculum), EETP period, EETP trainers (instructors – individual mentor’s role) and EETP candidates’ input (involvement and contribution)) in the higher educational institutions (HEI) in the emerging markets (EM) particularly in the Gulf Countries Council (GCC). The survey instrument was pre-tested to establish its validity and reliability and the quantitative statistical data that emerged from the administration of the survey were analyzed using t-tests, factor analysis, and analysis of variance and correlations (ANOVA). the study concluded that the curriculum defines the experiences presented to the learner, hence the great influence on curriculum effectiveness. Instructors also are the actual implementers of the curriculum. Additionally, they guide students in the actual process. Their role reflects their influence on the effectiveness of EETP.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130983727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Leadership on the Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Companies: The Mediated Effects of Value Innovation","authors":"Yan Li","doi":"10.4018/IJEEI.2021070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEEI.2021070104","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to find out the effects of leadership, mediated by value innovation on the business financial performance of the manufacturing SMEs in China. Second, to examine what kind of links there are among leadership, value innovation and financial performance of Chinese manufacturing firms are explored. Last but not least, this paper will investigate Chinese manufacturing companies, which have survived and grown. To discuss what kind of key factors they have and how they adopt these strategies in order to achieve value innovation for their corporate growth in emerging markets, the result of this study is that there is a positive relationship between leadership value innovation, and financial performance of companies. Meanwhile, results illustrated that product innovation mediated the relationship of leadership with financial performance, but business model innovation has no mediating role on the relationship of leadership with financial performance.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122975276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Entrepreneurship in Universities","authors":"Jovanna Nathalie Cervantes-Guzmán","doi":"10.4018/IJEEI.2021070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEEI.2021070103","url":null,"abstract":"It is necessary for university students to be trained with real cases so that they experience experiential learning, where they have a concrete experience and learn from it. Integrating training, education, and soft skills arm them with the necessary tools to develop an entrepreneurial intention. This will be done by training multidisciplinary work using business models adapted to teaching entrepreneurship. Thus, achieving avoids drifting talent trained in universities, which does not find a stimulus to knowledge to achieve the development of their venture. It should be provided from schoolwork that can lead to potential businesses, through the association of different university careers to generate and enhance multidisciplinary professional student-student relationships.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123763183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ha Nguyen Thi Thu, Minh-Triet Tran, T. Ngoc, B. G. Nguyen, Linh Nguyen Tran Ngoc
{"title":"Measuring Satisfaction and Loyalty of Guests Based on Vietnamese Hotel Online Reviews","authors":"Ha Nguyen Thi Thu, Minh-Triet Tran, T. Ngoc, B. G. Nguyen, Linh Nguyen Tran Ngoc","doi":"10.4018/IJEEI.2021070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEEI.2021070101","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring customer satisfaction is a key task for hotels today. Analyzing online reviews of experienced guests will help the managers to know if guests are satisfied or dissatisfied with the service that they provided. Hence, they have solutions to improve service quality. This study presents a method to measure guest satisfaction based on sentiment lexicon that is developed for hospitality domain to increase the accuracy of the analysis results. Actual data is downloaded from TripAdvisor with 35 four-star to five-star hotels of five cities in Vietnam to analyze guest satisfaction that shows that nearly 80% of customers are satisfied with the quality of Vietnamese hotels. Based on data analysis, the study also evaluating guest loyalty through phrases like “came here several,” “come back,” “recommend,” etc. This rate corresponds to the number that was reported by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124001991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Prediction of Venture Capitalists' Investment Propensity Using Machine Learning","authors":"Youngkeun Choi, Jae W. Choi","doi":"10.4018/IJEEI.2021070102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEEI.2021070102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the most visible data science methods suitable for entrepreneurial research and provides links to literature and big data resources for venture capitalists. In the results, first, all organizational characteristics such as the characteristic of parent company of VC, the fund size of VC, and the reputation of VC, have significant influences on the risk-taking investment of venture capitalists, while functional background, school prestige, and VC experience except educational level among individual characteristics have significant influences on the risk-taking investment of venture capitalists. Second, for the full model, the accuracy rate is 0.855, which implies that the error rate is 0.145. Among the venture capitalists who are predicted not to do risk-taking investment, the accuracy that would not do risk-taking investment is 85.75%, and the accuracy that do risk-taking investment is 79.59% among the venture capitalists who are predicted to do risk-taking investment.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130869925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Osmani, R. El-Haddadeh, N. Hindi, V. Weerakkody
{"title":"The Role of Co-Innovation Platform and E-Collaboration ICTs in Facilitating Entrepreneurial Ventures","authors":"M. Osmani, R. El-Haddadeh, N. Hindi, V. Weerakkody","doi":"10.4018/ijeei.2020070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijeei.2020070104","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to stimulate and support women to engage in action-oriented entrepreneurial activities such as practical training, international collaboration, knowledge exchange, and shared learning to foster entrepreneurship. To achieve the aim, this study proposes a structured program of training and mentoring that will combine multiple-methods and ICT tools to facilitate the process of joint-innovation and start-up between international female entrepreneurs. To do so, it recommends the following stages: engaging with stakeholders and developing contextual awareness; developing an entrepreneurship training framework; training and capacity building of female entrepreneurs; adapting, implementing and pilot-testing a co-innovation platform; and facilitation of international collaboration, venture capital and start-ups.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134404204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging Social Media in Facilitating Women Entrepreneurs in India: A Case Study of Pune Ladies (PULA)","authors":"M. Bedarkar, Mahima Mishra, R. Khatwani","doi":"10.4018/ijeei.2020070105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijeei.2020070105","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the role of social media in facilitating women entrepreneurs in India. It adopts a case study approach to explore the effectiveness of social media platforms in supporting women entrepreneurs. PULA (Pune Ladies), a closed Facebook Group, set up in 2015 for women in Pune, was selected as a case study. Fifteen in-depth interviews were conducted among 15 active women entrepreneurs of this group to explore the benefits received in terms of visibility, marketing opportunities, revenue generation, psychological benefits (sense of belongingness, self-confidence, motivation), and counselling to name a few. Their responses were analyzed for commonalities and divergences. The article finds that PULA not only offers a cost-effective platform for women entrepreneurs to showcase their products/services but also helps them in enhancing the visibility and financial performance of their businesses. The findings of this study will guide women entrepreneurs in leveraging social media platforms through greater visibility, networking and marketing their products/ services more efficiently.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114823522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}