Karina Kappe , Diemo Urbig , Stephan Lengsfeld , Jon C. Carr , Christian Rupietta
{"title":"When entrepreneurship and employment collide: Conflicts of hybrid entrepreneurs and their impact on wage employment satisfaction","authors":"Karina Kappe , Diemo Urbig , Stephan Lengsfeld , Jon C. Carr , Christian Rupietta","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00564","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00564"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144886435","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}
Adam K. Frost , Shuang L. Frost , Christian Garmann Johnsen
{"title":"Status entrepreneurship: The entrepreneurial pursuit of social distinction","authors":"Adam K. Frost , Shuang L. Frost , Christian Garmann Johnsen","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00563","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00563","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00563"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144886284","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}
Marilla G. Hayman , Shane W. Reid , Jessica F. Kirk , Devalina Nag
{"title":"Exploring the impact of sexual harassment in entrepreneurial contexts: A call to action and research roadmap","authors":"Marilla G. Hayman , Shane W. Reid , Jessica F. Kirk , Devalina Nag","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00565","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00565","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sexual harassment continues to be a common yet understudied problem that occurs in entrepreneurial environments. Although prior studies have clarified its impacts in conventional organizations, the distinct effects of harassment in the informal, high-pressure realm of entrepreneurship remain largely overlooked. We address this gap by investigating how both anticipated and experienced sexual harassment may influence women's participation, actions, and success in entrepreneurship. Adapting insights from the organizational behavior and sexual harassment literatures, we examine the effects of harassment not only on individual women entrepreneurs but also on stakeholders and broader ecosystems. Anticipated harassment may discourage women from entering high-growth sectors or participating in vital networking and fundraising efforts, while experienced harassment experiences can result in psychological stress, diminished visibility, and early departure from ventures. Stakeholders—including mentors, investors, and family—may also shift their engagement in response to perceived risks, limiting access to essential support. At the ecosystem level, harassment likely reinforces exclusionary norms and creates structural barriers that impede gender equity and innovation. Through this multilevel perspective, we provide a framework for better understanding the compounding effects of harassment on women in entrepreneurship and propose new directions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144879895","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 female athlete's dilemma in the age of Name, Image, and Likeness","authors":"Marisa C. Gonzales , Jeremy C. Short","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For female student-athletes in the US, the advent of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) possibilities represents a distinct form of entrepreneurship that demands two often competing forms of labor: athletic and aesthetic. Unlike professional athletes, college athletes typically lack the same resources, experience, and institutional support, making their NIL engagement both more precarious and more revealing of the structural dynamics at play. Some female athletes face a dilemma where monetary gain might come at the perceived cost of promoting their aesthetic beauty rather than their athletic prowess to maximize NIL opportunities. The motivation for this study was to better understand how student-athletes are navigating the NIL space and how they perceive themselves, their labor, and the efforts of others engaged in similar work.</div><div>Our work suggests young athletes should be encouraged to build and manage their social media platforms strategically, while proactively addressing potential obstacles related to NIL participation, branding, and personal boundaries. Universities should support female athletes by fostering interdisciplinary partnerships that encourage collaboration between athletic departments and programs, such as business, mass media, or communications, to help student-athletes develop entrepreneurial skills and explore new NIL opportunities. Athletes can also be supported by creating spaces for peer-to-peer engagement, such as regular meetups or workshops, where student-athletes can share NIL experiences and strategies. Regional NIL conferences could explore area-specific opportunities and challenges to help support the early development of digital presence. Individuals can support female student-athletes by engaging with crowdfunding websites such as <em>Opendorse</em> and purchasing an autograph or shout-out from a female athlete. Finally, individuals could support university collectives that provide NIL opportunities for women, and make their support felt by attending women's sporting events.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00561"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863583","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":"Everyday aesthetics and visual methods for enlarging our approach to social impact","authors":"Hans Rawhouser , Felipe Symmes , Alessia Argiolas","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing research on the social impact of entrepreneurship lacks theory that adequately incorporates the subjective experience of social impact. We build from Mexican philosopher Katya Mandoki's comprehensive <em>everyday aesthetics</em> model to broadly understand various subjective experiences of social impact. This <em>everyday aesthetics</em> view of social impact allows understanding social impact through those whose voice has largely been missing in research, such as social entrepreneurs, vulnerable communities, and beneficiaries. We outline various ways in which social impact is manifested using Mandoki's four modalities of everyday aesthetics (proxemics, kinetics, emphatics, and fluxion), illustrating using examples from social entrepreneurs in Latin America. We show how four visual methodologies (researcher-led photography and video, photo elicitation, photovoice, and participant drawings) can be used to visually capture these aesthetic manifestations of social impact, illustrating with examples from Africa and Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00560"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144841444","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 promise of family systems theory in understanding the emotional and interpersonal dynamics of early-stage entrepreneurial teams","authors":"Pamela Nowell, Peter Kalum Schou","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Being an entrepreneur is often a very emotionally intense experience as entrepreneurs are often driven by strong passion and face many ups and downs in their journey. While prior research has explored relational dynamics in entrepreneurial teams, less is known about how emotional interdependence shapes team functioning over time. Drawing on family systems theory, this paper conceptualizes early-stage entrepreneurial teams as emotionally interdependent systems, offering new insights into why some teams thrive under pressure while others fracture. We argue that team emotion, as well as many team processes and outcomes—such as conflict, turnover, and well-being—emerge not only from individual traits, states, or events, but from underlying and patterned emotional dynamics. In doing so we connect literature on psychological ownership, bonding, and co-founding relationships, offer new conceptual insights, and suggest novel ways of studying early-stage entrepreneurial teams. We conclude with potential research questions to encourage future theory development in the field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00562"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144831443","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":"Acorns to Oak Trees: Designing entrepreneurial ecosystems for sustainability and diversity","authors":"Shoon Chan Timothy Hor","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00558","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00558","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>“Let's manage entrepreneurial ecosystems the way ecologists manage habitats”—that is the challenge posed by Andreas Kuckertz. Yet the literature still lacks concrete guidance for actors who seek to build such habitats in practice. Addressing this gap, I present the Acorns-to-Oak-Trees (A2OT) framework, a design-science artefact that embeds ecosystem sustainability—defined here as the ability of entrepreneurial ecosystems to remain adaptive, inclusive, and supportive of a variety of venture types over time—into their structural design. Using Romme and Dimov's iterative design-science logic, I distil research on ecosystem configuration, resilience, and practitioner wisdom into four design principles: <em>Diverse Seed Bank</em>, <em>Nutrient-Rich Soil</em>, <em>Supportive Climate</em>, and <em>Ecosystem Maintenance</em>. These principles are coupled with a dynamic feedback-loop model and a Context–Agency–Mechanism–Outcome (CAMO) table that identifies actionable levers for policymakers, investors, and support organizations. This design science paper translates Kuckertz's ecological metaphor into a practitioner-ready framework, extending entrepreneurial ecosystem theory by making sustainability and entrepreneurial diversity core design objectives. It also illustrates how design-science methods can generate testable and actionable knowledge. The paper's key insight is that sustainability in ecosystems can be structurally designed by embedding mechanisms that support venture diversity, adaptability, and long-term resilience<strong>.</strong></div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00558"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749583","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}
Daniel G. Bachrach , Pankaj C. Patel , Joseph S. Turberville , Younsung Cho
{"title":"Veteran entrepreneurship and a sense of purpose: Military identity and entrepreneurial activity","authors":"Daniel G. Bachrach , Pankaj C. Patel , Joseph S. Turberville , Younsung Cho","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite its relevance for understanding variation in a range of important individual and societal level outcomes, little is known about the drivers of veterans' post-military entrepreneurial activity. Leveraging goal setting theory, we investigate relationships between veterans’ sense of purpose and their post-service entrepreneurial activity, in consideration of the moderation effects of three facets of military identity. Leveraging a sample of 932 veterans from the Military Health and Well-Being Project, we find that veterans with a sense of purpose are significantly more likely to be involved in entrepreneurial activity. We also find that while idealism (a facet of military identity) amplifies this relationship, professionalism (another facet of military identity) weakens it. Results from a set of qualitative interviews with veteran entrepreneurs substantiate these results. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00557"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749582","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}
Mark van der Giessen , Anastasia Koptsyukh , Farah Kodeih , Sophie Alkhaled , Anastasiia Poberezhna , Marjolein Wesselius den Boer
{"title":"From emergency relief to empowerment: Transitioning government-led social entrepreneurship practices to support Ukrainian refugees","authors":"Mark van der Giessen , Anastasia Koptsyukh , Farah Kodeih , Sophie Alkhaled , Anastasiia Poberezhna , Marjolein Wesselius den Boer","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00559","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00559","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This rapid response paper seeks to support Sanctuary Ukraine (SU), a municipality-led initiative that has augmented its traditional governmental work with social entrepreneurship practices to provide services for Ukrainian refugees. SU initially focused on emergency reception and housing services with the support of external NGOs and volunteer groups. However, as the Russia-Ukraine war persists well into 2025—and with it the prolonged displacement of Ukrainian residents—SU has increasingly shifted its focus toward activities aimed at empowering refugees over the long term. We identify three problems that have emerged during this transition, and drawing on existing evidence in the academic literature, we offer concrete recommendations for adapting SU's activities (taking a translational research approach). First, we propose strategies for nurturing community collaboration toward common goals to mitigate competition and conflict that can arise within a fragmented refugee community. Second, we show how refugee identity narratives can be grounded in a sense of personal value and belonging to foster commitment to integration among refugees who feel caught between repatriation and settling in the host country. Lastly, we suggest ways in which institutional structures and processes can be leveraged to shelter refugees from the debilitating effects of prolonged and indeterminate uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00559"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749584","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}
Patcharapar Rojanakit , Rui Torres de Oliveira , Uwe Dulleck
{"title":"Beyond ownership: Exploring the sharing economy platforms in Thailand’s emerging market","authors":"Patcharapar Rojanakit , Rui Torres de Oliveira , Uwe Dulleck","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00556","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00556","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the global rise of sharing economy platforms (SEPs), their success in emerging economies remains inconsistent—largely due to institutional voids and the lack of adaptive business models, leaving these platforms particularly vulnerable to external pressures. This study examines the institutional logics influencing SEP development in emerging economies, with Thailand as a case study. Through qualitative analysis, we identify a range of institutional forces and theorize their dynamic influence with platform development. The key insight of our study is the development of a novel integrated interactive sharing economy platform framework that reveals how these external forces act as both enablers and constraints, and how platforms can strategically leverage internal resources and capabilities to balance and contain these pressures. Our findings highlight the critical role of institutional logics in shaping platform outcomes and offer foundational guidance for future research, platform strategy, and policymaking in underexplored institutional contexts, particularly in emerging economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Insights","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article e00556"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654102","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}