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How humiliation reconstructs (or ruins) the entrepreneurial self 羞辱是如何重建（或摧毁）企业家自我的

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-26 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01199-3

Michael G. Goldsby, Donald F. Kuratko

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Targeted monetary policy and loan availability for small and microenterprises: A bank competitive strategy perspective 定向货币政策与小微企业贷款可得性：银行竞争战略视角

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01208-5

Xiaohua Zhou, Suijia Li, Hui Xu, Huimin Liu

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The role of rural health entrepreneurship in community resilience: a model of multidimensional value creation 农村卫生创业在社区复原力中的作用：一种多维价值创造模式

IF 6.4 1区经济学

Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01187-7

Ivan Paunović, Sotiris Apostolopoulos, Nikos Apostolopoulos, Robert Newbery, Ivana Božić-Miljković, Gregory Maniatopoulos, Martin King

{"title":"The role of rural health entrepreneurship in community resilience: a model of multidimensional value creation","authors":"Ivan Paunović, Sotiris Apostolopoulos, Nikos Apostolopoulos, Robert Newbery, Ivana Božić-Miljković, Gregory Maniatopoulos, Martin King","doi":"10.1007/s11187-026-01187-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-026-01187-7","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare providers have been encouraged to become entrepreneurs to fill a widening service gap in depleted rural areas. This paper explores how these entrepreneurs add value, finding a complex multidimensional process of value creation in rural healthcare. Taking a grounded approach, 40 health entrepreneurs were interviewed across the health settings of four European countries characterised by ‘mixed’ public–private healthcare. Through an institutional logic framing, the paper builds a novel process theory of value creation in a rural socio-spatial context. It identifies value creation elements, effects and diverging institutional logics characterised by polysemy and polyphony. Overlaid on the bio-physical layer, areas of healthcare value creation hybridity are identified, with implications for the resilience of rural communities and sustainability of rural healthcare enterprises. By presenting an agent-relative and pluralistic theory of rural healthcare entrepreneurship, the paper adds an understanding of multidimensional value creation and contributes to entrepreneurial context and everyday entrepreneurship debates.","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147535874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Growth expectations of entrepreneurs during crisis: the role of social, environmental, and economic motivations 危机期间企业家的增长预期：社会、环境和经济动机的作用

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01200-z

Ngoc Thien Thy Tran, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Emma Folmer, Ute Stephan

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Sustainable business model innovation in rural entrepreneurial ecosystems: a conceptual framework and research agenda 农村创业生态系统中的可持续商业模式创新：概念框架与研究议程

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01181-z

Jens Kaus, Jason Entsminger

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Is it too novel to succeed? How technological novelty affects observer responses to entrepreneurship failure 它是否太过新颖而无法成功？技术新颖性如何影响观察者对创业失败的反应

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01174-y

Yue Zhang, Bin Wang, Feifan Yang, Yijing Liao, Xiaoshu Ma, Shanshan Su

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Entrepreneurial stakeholder enrollment: discriminating alignment under intersubjective uncertainty 企业利益相关者招募：主体间不确定性下的判别对齐

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01192-w

Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Samuele Murtinu

{"title":"Entrepreneurial stakeholder enrollment: discriminating alignment under intersubjective uncertainty","authors":"Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Samuele Murtinu","doi":"10.1007/s11187-026-01192-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-026-01192-w","url":null,"abstract":"Knightian uncertainty is central to entrepreneurship. While the entrepreneurship literature has carefully investigated the implications of uncertainty for entrepreneurial decision-making, less is known about how uncertainty affects the entrepreneur’s ability to mobilize stakeholders in support of a new venture. Entrepreneurs and potential stakeholders, notably funders, often hold different subjective beliefs about future possibilities and their likelihood, a condition we call intersubjective uncertainty. The extent of intersubjective uncertainty depends on the novelty and opacity of entrepreneurial projects and shapes the financing strategies and outcomes of entrepreneurs in a systematic, discriminating manner. Because some level of agreement is necessary for entrepreneurs and funders to realize gains from trade, entrepreneurial strategies for reducing intersubjective uncertainty are complementary to formal contractual and ownership mechanisms that structure deals between entrepreneurs and funders. We unfold these ideas from the perspectives of new institutional economics and research on entrepreneurial stakeholder enrollment which examines the use of communication and persuasion.","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"412 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147461949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sustainable innovation in craft-based SMEs: a mixed-method study of Indonesian batik communities 手工艺型中小企业的可持续创新：印尼蜡染社区的混合方法研究

IF 6.4 1区经济学

Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01201-y

Budi Harsanto, Yulistyne Kasumaningrum, Asep Mulyana, Yudi Ahmad Faisal, Elias Hadjielias

{"title":"Sustainable innovation in craft-based SMEs: a mixed-method study of Indonesian batik communities","authors":"Budi Harsanto, Yulistyne Kasumaningrum, Asep Mulyana, Yudi Ahmad Faisal, Elias Hadjielias","doi":"10.1007/s11187-026-01201-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-026-01201-y","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on institutional theory, this study explores underexamined factors that shape sustainable innovation in craft-based SMEs. It focuses on batik craft communities in Indonesia, which represent a constrained institutional environment for innovation. Batik – a traditional Indonesian textile art known for its intricate patterns and dye-resist techniques – holds significant cultural and economic value. Three focal factors – digitalisation, the institutional environment, and sustainability orientation – are identified from the literature and investigated using a convergent mixed-methods design. The qualitative phase comprises 22 semi-structured interviews across nine batik SMEs in prominent batik communities on Java, offering diverse perspectives and rich contextual depth. The quantitative phase applies Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification (MICMAC), with input from ten experts, to assess the salience and interrelationships among these factors. We find that cultural values shape digitalisation in craft-based SMEs: batik SMEs widely adopt digital tools for market-facing activities, yet remain cautious about advanced production technologies that may threaten craft authenticity. Our analysis reveals that association- and community-led support, as well as normative expectations, exert greater influence on sustainable innovation than limited government incentives. At the same time, while sustainability awareness is rising, it is not yet matched by consistent practices across the value chain. Our study offers new theoretical insights into SME sustainable innovation within craft communities and contributes a relational, normative, and dynamic process-oriented understanding of rural entrepreneurship that transcends static geographic boundaries. Additionally, it operationalises a multilevel lens for understanding how sustainable innovation unfolds in culturally rooted, craft-based SMEs.","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147462103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Three faces of rural entrepreneurship: policy, lifestyle, and sustainability in a Patagonian entrepreneurial ecosystem 农村创业的三个方面：巴塔哥尼亚创业生态系统中的政策、生活方式和可持续性

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01198-4

Carlos Poblete, Daniel Mahn, Cristina Acuña, Felipe Rifo

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Transcending climate barriers: roads to resilience for rural entrepreneurship 超越气候障碍：农村创业韧性之路

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01196-6

Xiangpo Chen, S. T. Boris Choy, Yuchan Lin

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