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{"title":"Too good to be true? Toward an exploration of the ‘Triple Ds’ of effectuation","authors":"David J. Rapp ,&nbsp;Daniel Leunbach","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00576","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00576","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effectuation has attracted wide interest and has become an influential branch within the entrepreneurship literature. However, like much of this literature, effectuation research has largely focused on exploring only its bright sides while downplaying or neglecting its not-so-bright sides. This has left critical blind spots on the map of effectuation research. We build on Shepherd's taxonomy of the ‘Triple Ds’—the dark, down, and destructive sides of entrepreneurship—to begin to explore these blind spots and suggest different mechanisms through which the ‘Triple Ds’ of effectuation unfold. Our aim herein is to stimulate further research that expands effectuation beyond its well-trodden paths and sheds light on its neglected dark, down, and destructive sides. This will contribute to a more complete theoretical understanding of effectuation and open up important research avenues that were previously blocked. Moreover, it will also help educators adopt and teach a more balanced and realistic view of effectuation and enable practicing entrepreneurs to make more informed judgments by considering the potential ‘costs’ of applying specific effectuation principles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00576"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145265200","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":"Font of innovation or algorithmic deforestation? The ecosystem impacts of artificial intelligence in entrepreneurship","authors":"Richard A. Hunt ,&nbsp;Rasim Serdar Kurdoglu","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00575","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00575","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in the infrastructures, practices, and decision-making routines of founders, firms, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. For entrepreneurship, this appears to be a tremendous boon to value creation. By widening the aperture of individual entrepreneurs beyond the narrow limits of human cognition, assistive algorithms – and particularly the ground-breaking, readily accessible capabilities of Generative AI (Gen AI) – appear poised to deliver game-changing exploratory tools, enhanced predictive insights, operational efficiencies, and resource-preserving decision-support tools. Yet, the long-term, society-wide impacts are far less clear. One cause for concern is the variance-minimizing features of AI, a foundational design principle that reduces deviation and enhances the predictive stability of AI tools. In this, we identify a paradox wherein AI tools often enhance the individual creativity of entrepreneurs but, at scale, may erode collective entrepreneurial dynamism by filtering out non-algorithmic, highly serendipitous, mutation-generating, and variance-maximizing behaviors. Drawing upon the principles of <em>rainforest logics</em>, we theorize how AI's growing influence on entrepreneurial judgment, strategy, and ecosystem design may lead to a system-wide homogenization in decision-making and a decline in radical experimentation. With this, there is the danger of a corresponding increase in what we have dubbed <em>algorithmic deforestation</em>, involving systemic risks to the vitality and mutation-generating capacity of entrepreneurial ecosystems through the unintentional suppression of cognitive and behavioral diversity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145218952","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":"Navigating complex problem spaces: How emotion and energy shape entrepreneurial agency in serendipitous encounters","authors":"Nele Marie Terveen","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00573","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00573","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00573"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145117855","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":"War and entrepreneurship: Why (“on earth”) do people start businesses in wartime?","authors":"Sanita Rugina ,&nbsp;Kim Klyver","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00574","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Interstate wars, civil wars, and other forms of armed conflict are becoming increasingly common, challenging the assumptions in entrepreneurship theories developed under conditions of societal stability. Wars have devastating effects on the economy, including entrepreneurship. Paradoxically, while one might expect entrepreneurship to decline in war zones, recent research suggests otherwise; however, it also provides no insights into the motivation to start a new business during wartime. This study investigates what unique factors motivate people in war zones to start businesses, focusing particularly on women entrepreneurs in Ukraine during the Russo–Ukrainian War. Through in-depth interviews (n = 24) both with Ukrainian women who started a new business during the war and with entrepreneurship experts, we inductively develop an understanding of various unique motivations to start businesses in wartime. A central finding of this study is that wartime entrepreneurship is a complex mix of reacting to circumstances and taking initiative. People start businesses during wars not just for survival, but also to have a sense of control and to help their families and communities. This is different from entrepreneurship in peacetime, where motivation is more frequently associated with seizing opportunities and achieving personal gain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A CALL FOR ACTION.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When war breaks out, most people focus on survival and safety. Yet, even in these conditions, some people start businesses. Our research shows that war does not end entrepreneurship — it transforms it. In Ukraine, despite missile strikes and economic collapse, entrepreneurs are creating new ventures. They are doing this not out of opportunism, but as a way to protect their families, rebuild their communities, and take back a sense of control.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Entrepreneurship during war is not just a diluted version of peacetime enterprise. It is a distinct type, shaped by unique motivations. We saw entrepreneurs seeking to restore agency, to provide essential goods and services when institutions failed, and to contribute to the national effort as an act of solidarity and resistance. These drivers do not fit the standard theories of entrepreneurship, which usually assume stable environments, individual opportunity recognition, and personal profit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For this reason, policymakers, NGOs, and investors should not treat wartime entrepreneurship as business-as-usual. Instead, it should be recognized as a crucial part of a country's resilience and recovery. Resources such as funding, supply chain access, and mentorship should be directed to these ventures, because they are functioning as critical infrastructure for both society and the economy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;War time entrepreneurs will not wait for academic theories to adapt. Entrepreneurs are already emerging in conflict zones. The task now is twofold: first, to build better theories that capture this phenomenon and improve support syst","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00574"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145109257","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":"A meta-analysis on the effects of high-performance work practices in small and medium-sized enterprises: An exploration of organizational- and individual-level outcomes","authors":"Christopher Hansen ,&nbsp;Ksenia Usanova ,&nbsp;Mickael Geraudel","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00572","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00572","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research aims to achieve two objectives: to confirm results about the effects of high-performance work practices (HPWPs) at the organizational level, and to explore the effects of HPWPs on individual employee performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We conducted a meta-analysis of 115 studies to investigate how high-performance work practices are positively related to organizational and individual outcomes in SMEs, identifying critical benefits HPWPs offer. At the organizational level, HPWPs are positively related to firm performance, growth, and innovation, while negatively related to turnover and absenteeism rates. At the individual level, HPWPs are positively related to employee engagement, motivation, creativity, entrepreneurial orientation, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, while negatively related to turnover intention. We nuance the applicability of HPWPs to the SME context and we contribute to the literature by highlighting the role of HPWPs at the individual level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104878","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":"From inventory to insight: Reimagining reviews for JBVI","authors":"Pablo Muñoz","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While literature reviews are essential for organizing knowledge, conventional formats often lag behind the fast-moving debates in entrepreneurship research. Too often descriptive, cautious and lengthy, such reviews rarely spark the conceptual or practical innovation needed in dynamic fields. At the Journal of Business Venturing Insights (JBVI), we will open a space for reimagining the review genre, shifting from inventory to insight. To this end, we introduce four new review formats: <em>critical insight review</em>, <em>underexplored intersections</em>, <em>rapid scoping synthesis, and provocative reviews.</em> These are designed to provoke dialogue, challenge assumptions, and illuminate emerging debates. In doing so, we align JBVI with a broader movement across the social sciences toward agile, forward-looking scholarship where reviews function as intellectual activators rather than static summaries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145048323","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":"Interference in children’s affairs: An exploratory study about the role of self-employed parents","authors":"Stefan Schneck","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00570","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00570","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The entrepreneurship literature links the higher probability that children of self-employed parents will later become self-employed to parental role models and socialization by their parents. We add an exploratory study that examines whether parental interference in their children’s affairs lays the foundation for later entrepreneurship. We show that, on average, self-employed parents are not more likely to interfere in their children’s affairs than parents in regular employment. However, this null effect masks differences across fathers and mothers. Self-employed fathers interfere more in the affairs of their sons, while self-employed mothers interfere less in their daughters’ affairs. Moreover, we find that parental interference has a negative impact on sons’ self-perception of their entrepreneurial competencies. We discuss the implications of these results and present promising avenues for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145048324","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":"Aged to perfection? Unpacking the curvilinear relationship between founder age and new venture performance","authors":"Johannes Hagen ,&nbsp;Lucia Naldi ,&nbsp;Charlie Karlsson","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00568","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study contributes to the growing body of research on the relationship between founders' age and new venture performance, addressing existing gaps regarding founders approaching or surpassing retirement age. By analyzing comprehensive Swedish administrative data covering all newly incorporated firms and their founders, we first document an inverse U-shaped relationship between founders' age at founding and firm survival, as well as between founders' aging and employment growth. However, our findings reveal significant disruptions in these patterns between ages 60 and 70. Specifically, the relationship between founders' age at founding and firm survival temporarily improves at the conventional retirement age of 65, transitioning into a more nuanced, bimodal M-shaped pattern. In contrast, the relationship between founders' aging and employment growth plateaus around age 65. Using abductive analysis and a regression discontinuity design, we show that the increased firm survival observed after age 65 is influenced by a different selection of entrepreneurs, as individuals with enhanced financial security from pension access, along with previous industry experience and high levels of education, are more likely to start businesses at this stage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00568"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145048322","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 maker entrepreneur's agency and communion language on stakeholder engagement","authors":"Jacob A. Waddingham ,&nbsp;Debby Osias ,&nbsp;Phillip E. Davis","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00569","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00569","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A growing area of interest in the entrepreneurship literature examines the communal spaces where maker entrepreneurs interact, create, and sell their novel artifacts. However, we know surprisingly little about how these individuals communicate their entrepreneurial endeavors to their local community, and how this communication affects key stakeholder engagement. Using a unique social media dataset of 48 maker entrepreneurs who participated in a community-based event, we find support for our theorizing. Our results reveal a negative relationship between agentic language and online stakeholder engagement, whereas communal language is positively related to stakeholder engagement. Interestingly, the negative relationship between agentic language and online stakeholder engagement is stronger for local maker entrepreneurs. Supplemental interviews with maker entrepreneurs provide additional insights into their feedback-seeking behaviors and networking within the maker community.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145019081","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":"Cultivating insightful theory-building in qualitative research","authors":"Ewald Kibler ,&nbsp;Eero Vaara ,&nbsp;Lauri Laine","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00567","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00567","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We have witnessed a proliferation of theory-building qualitative research in entrepreneurship and management studies over the past two decades. While this overall trend is worth celebrating, we argue that it is time to pause and reflect on the broader theoretical and practical impact of this body of work. Although methodological sophistication and the use of structured templates have enhanced rigor, the theoretical models generated through qualitative inquiry are rarely revisited or extended in subsequent research or practice. Thus, we suggest moving beyond the production of ‘stand-alone’ theoretical models toward what we call <em>insightful theory-building</em>, a mode of inquiry that prioritizes the development of clear, actionable insights that others can build upon, thereby enabling stepwise, cumulative theory development. To support this shift, we offer seven interrelated development strategies: clarifying, zooming in, connecting, situating, sharing, countering, and experimenting. These strategies are intended to foster more substantive, reflexive, and generative theorizing within qualitative research in entrepreneurship and management studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144886283","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}