{"title":"Walking a fine line: Dual effects of team narcissism on new venture idea quality","authors":"Nischal Thapa , Puspa Shah","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00554","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00554","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The success of new ventures often hinges on the generation of high-quality new venture ideas (NVIs), with new venture teams playing a crucial role in this creative process. Despite the pivotal role of these teams, research on the factors influencing NVI quality within these teams remains limited. To address this gap, this study leverages Social Interdependence Theory to examine how team narcissism of new venture teams influences NVI quality through its dual effects on team resilience and team-level role conflict. The findings suggest that the relationship between team narcissism and NVI quality is positively mediated by team resilience and negatively mediated by team-level role conflict. While team narcissism promotes both team resilience and team-level role conflict, these mediating variables exert opposing effects on NVI quality: team resilience enhances it, whereas team-level role conflict diminishes it. This paper contributes to the literature on NVI generation, a component of broader entrepreneurship literature, by examining how new venture team dynamics shape the teams' creative output. It also provides practical guidance, urging practitioners to foster team resilience and reduce team-level role conflict to enhance the creativity of new venture teams.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00554"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144557674","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}
Christian Heinzel , W. Scott Langford , Vinzenz Peters , Mark Sanders
{"title":"Young and small firms and resilience to extreme weather events","authors":"Christian Heinzel , W. Scott Langford , Vinzenz Peters , Mark Sanders","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we demonstrate that the presence of entrepreneurial organizations, proxied by young and small firms, in an economy increases its resilience to external shocks. We estimate the effect of local young and small firm employment shares on employment growth through extreme weather events in US counties using an event study model. We find that higher employment shares of young and small firms reduce employment losses for given levels of property damages. We contribute to the literature by showing that entrepreneurship enhances economic resilience to physical climate shocks at the local level. As regional resilience can be considered a public good, our findings add an argument to the case for supporting young and small firms in the face of progressing climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144548974","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}
Lane Graves Perry III , Nathan A. Woolard , Michael A. Altman
{"title":"Food halls as entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems: Exploring incubation, placemaking, and community impact","authors":"Lane Graves Perry III , Nathan A. Woolard , Michael A. Altman","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the role of food halls as entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems, functioning as incubators for new ventures and catalysts for community connection and revitalization. Through a naturalistic qualitative analysis of 11 food halls across five US cities, the study investigates how these spaces facilitate placemaking, foster social value creation, and support entrepreneurial growth. 35 semi-structured interviews with food hall stakeholders (e.g., owners, operators, vendors, etc.) were complemented by artifact analysis and site observations, revealing key motivators for entrepreneurs, including incubation and testing of business concepts, access to new markets, collaboration, and reduced startup risks. Food halls provide shared resources and mentorship, fostering entrepreneurial growth and community engagement. The study connects placemaking with entrepreneurial micro-ecosystem development, demonstrating how food halls contribute to local economic growth, social cohesion, and urban renewal.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00553"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144534241","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 the ecosystem: How social exchange sows the seeds of entrepreneurial contributions","authors":"Johannes Hähnlein , Matthias Baum , Carolin Durst","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00551","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00551","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurs benefit significantly from resources within their entrepreneurial ecosystems, but under what conditions do they decide to contribute back (a mechanism called downward causation) and thus revitalize the ecosystem they originated from? Drawing on social exchange theory, we develop a set of drivers of such contribution behaviors and test their influence through a metric-conjoint experiment involving 234 entrepreneurs. Our findings confirm the impact of social exchange theory constructs on entrepreneurs' contribution behaviors and highlight the moderating effects of personal traits—in particular, self-interest and other-orientation—on these dynamics. The key insight of our study is that social exchange structures and entrepreneurs’ relational contexts shape contribution behaviors that underlie the microfoundational dynamics of ecosystem development. This investigation underscores the importance of social structures within entrepreneurial ecosystems and enhances our understanding of the micro-level mechanisms that sustain ecosystem health and development. Furthermore, it offers practical insights that transcend traditional policy approaches, focusing on tailored strategies for cultivating entrepreneur-centered ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00551"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144510940","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}
Zouhair Mrabet , Lanouar Charfeddine , Elias K. Shukralla
{"title":"Debunking the FDI myth: Does foreign investment really spur entrepreneurship in Africa?","authors":"Zouhair Mrabet , Lanouar Charfeddine , Elias K. Shukralla","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00548","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00548","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we challenge the prevailing belief in entrepreneurship financing research that foreign direct investment (FDI) universally fosters entrepreneurial activity. We hypothesize that FDI's impact on new firm creation varies according to a country's level of entrepreneurial development. Using quantile panel regression on data from 25 sub-Saharan African nations between 2010 and 2020, our analysis reveals heterogeneous effects across different levels of entrepreneurial activity. Notably, our findings challenge the assumption that FDI inherently promotes entrepreneurship and fosters new business creation. Instead, we observe that FDI may hinder the establishment of new firms, especially in countries with limited entrepreneurial activities, where it is expected to provide the most support by addressing local capacity gaps. Several policy insights have been proposed and discussed on how FDI can spurs entrepreneurship and new firm creation in the sub-Saharan African region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00548"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144338642","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 process of freedom in entrepreneurship and poverty","authors":"Jonathan Kimmitt","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00550","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00550","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There has been an expansion of research examining the relationship between poverty and entrepreneurship, but with limited discussion in Journal of Business Venturing Insights over the last 10 years. Understanding how entrepreneurs develop the freedom to pursue business opportunities is intuitively a crucial part of this topic discussion. This paper argues that the capacity to control the decision-making process is of equal importance. Building on the human development perspective and the Capabilities Approach, the paper goes deeper into Sen's notion of <em>opportunity</em> and <em>process freedom</em> to emphasise the need for autonomy, mastery, competence and self-reflection alongside the opportunities available to entrepreneurs in contexts of poverty. The paper concludes by suggesting a path forward around entrepreneurial imaginativeness, self-reflection, and goals and values.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144330805","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 double-edged sword: Psychedelic-assisted therapy and entrepreneurial well-being, an early conceptual framework","authors":"Pankaj C. Patel , Marcus T. Wolfe","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00549","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00549","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The emergence of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) as a legal mental health treatment presents novel implications for entrepreneurship research and practice. Drawing on evidence from psychedelic science and entrepreneurship literature, we examine how PAT might (for some) reshape entrepreneurial well-being via cognitive and affective mechanisms. We develop a conceptual model linking PAT to entrepreneurial well-being through cognitive enhancement, emotional regulation, and adaptive capacity. Our framework identifies key boundary conditions and contingencies affecting these relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144314280","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":"All roads lead to Rome: The influence of creativity dimensions on self-employment through business related creativity","authors":"R. Gabrielle Swab , Pankaj C. Patel","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the relationship between the various forms of creativity as a determinant of self-employment, mediated by business/entrepreneurship-related creativity. Using the Componential Model of Creativity, we propose that artistic, math/science, social and civic, and everyday creativity leads to business creativity, which, in turn, is associated with self-employment. We use data from the 2018 National Survey: Self-Perceptions of Creativity & Arts Participation, which includes 1784 survey participants. We identify that these various dimensions of creativity, based on their motivations and the knowledge and skill of each specific area, coalesce and drive entrepreneurial engagement. We discuss the implications of our findings, particularly regarding entrepreneurship education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00546"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144306513","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":"Founding Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2352-6734(25)00032-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-6734(25)00032-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article e00545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144280860","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}
Russell E. Browder , Eric James , Todd W. Moss , Matthew S. Wood , Justin T. Canova
{"title":"Localizing humanitarian aid: A rapid response entrepreneurship model","authors":"Russell E. Browder , Eric James , Todd W. Moss , Matthew S. Wood , Justin T. Canova","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00542","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This rapid response research develops the localized aid model—a distinct approach pioneered by new entrants in the humanitarian aid sector—for the problem owner Field Ready, an entrepreneurial NGO innovating the humanitarian supply chain and empowering local social infrastructure. Unlike traditional aid organizations and spontaneous venturing, the localized aid model embeds entrepreneurship as an organizing logic to address crisis needs through local manufacturing, human-centered design, partnerships, and capacity-building. We position the localized aid model as a third approach in the entrepreneurship literature on humanitarian response. Drawing on social enterprise, organizational resilience, and crowdsourcing research, we advance the model theoretically and show how it can support localized decision-making, integrate with civic infrastructure, and garner acceptance in differing institutional contexts. By equipping aid ventures to measure the degree of localization—defined as agency and ownership of local actors—we highlight how entrepreneurial organizing can foster community resilience as a civic outcome. This research helps Field Ready and similar ventures articulate their innovative model to stakeholders while offering a framework for system-level change in the aid sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article e00542"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253923","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}