International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship最新文献

{"title":"In search of the next growth episode: How firms catalyse and sustain periods of high growth","authors":"S. Raby, M. Hart, B. Harney","doi":"10.1177/02662426221108631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426221108631","url":null,"abstract":"This is an introductory article to the special issue In Search of the Next Growth Episode: How Firms Catalyse and Sustain Periods of High Growth. The article reviews alternative streams of research on firm growth, including ‘random growth’, ‘responsive growth’ and ‘resourceful growth’. The themes of, and contributions to, the Special Issue are presented. Finally, we identify a number of directions for future research, including the importance of unpacking the drivers and causes of high growth episodes (HGEs), amplifying the role of the leader in research on firm growth, while questioning the desired outcomes and consequences of growth. We assert that there is still much to learn about firm growth. Our hope is that this special issue inspires new approaches and an enlarged understanding in this domain.","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"14 1","pages":"671 - 683"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83017635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mid-size firm growth: The process and empirical examination of key drivers","authors":"Gary Wolbers, Arun K. Pillutla","doi":"10.1177/02662426221097385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426221097385","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of the mid-sized enterprise arguably facilitates the resilience and stability needed for a thriving economy, even though such firms are comparatively overlooked or underrepresented in the scholarly literature. Further, the process of how mid-sized firms grow is seemingly unexplained. We address this gap in the literature through qualitative research and unveil a growth process model for mid-sized enterprise, illuminating the interaction of relationship and resource variables that are orchestrated by managers to achieve growth. Results from our research capture formative interactions and how they are developed, exploitative strategies coupled with galvanised relationships and integrated relationship and resource complexity as drivers to state-dependent growth. We unpack which variables foster growth as well as how, where and when they do so and contribute to literature with finer-grained description and prescription for growth objectives in mid-sized firms.","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"97 1","pages":"710 - 741"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87228414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of Characteristics of Technical Barriers to Trade by region according to Overseas Expansion of Companies: Focusing on the Fishery Industry","authors":"Myung-Soon Park, Joonseok Oh","doi":"10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83573163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Employing a Social Identity Theory Perspective on Examining the Impact of Perceived Localness of Foreign Brands with Philippine Consumers","authors":"Hyojin Nam, C. Han, D. Swanepoel","doi":"10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76303998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Qualitative Study On Expatriates’ Psychological Contract Contents And Psychological Contract Breach","authors":"Haekyung Lee","doi":"10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82293143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effect of Benevolent and Authoritarian Paternalistic Leadership on Affective Organizational Commitment and Innovation Behavior: A Comparison between Korean and US Employees","authors":"Mannsoo Shin, Chanhyuk Shin, Gahye Hong","doi":"10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14365/ibj.2022.33.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82190904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do entrepreneurs and their ventures benefit from prior setbacks: The mediating role of attitude towards failure","authors":"Wenwei Zhang, P. Soh, Wenhong Zhao","doi":"10.1177/02662426221118208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426221118208","url":null,"abstract":"By integrating an experiential learning view into an attitude model, we propose that an entrepreneur’s attitude towards failure resulting from a prior setback experience can positively affect a new venture’s commitment to learning. Moreover, the entrepreneur may be exposed to indirect experiential information by gaining access to managerial ties in the venture industry, moderating the influence of prior setback experience on attitudes towards failure. We developed a conceptual model to account for the conditional and indirect effects of an entrepreneur’s setback experience on organisational commitment to learning through the entrepreneur’s attitude towards failure. Using structural equation modelling, we analysed a sample of 143 entrepreneurs located in Western China’s high-technology industrial development zones and found full support for our model. This study provides theoretical and empirical insights into the intertwined relationships between context-specific experiences, individual attitude development and venture outcomes in entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"41 1","pages":"537 - 562"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46340194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The technological novelty of invention and speed to IPO of high-tech start-ups","authors":"Congshan Li, Jieyu Zhou","doi":"10.1177/02662426221115717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426221115717","url":null,"abstract":"The technological novelty of inventions signals economic potential while simultaneously indicating considerable technological and market risks. We speculate that unlike early-stage venture capital (VC) investors, late-stage public investors will interpret technological novelty as a signal of high risks. Consequently, they will hesitate to promptly invest in high-tech start-ups with such inventions, thereby slowing the initial public offering speed of the start-ups. Based on a sample of 408 VC-backed healthcare start-ups founded between 1990 and 2010, we find support for our hypothesis. We also find that the negative effect of technological novelty of inventions can be relieved when the technology is characterised by conventionality, when the founder is also the inventor, or when the start-up is backed by premium VC investors.","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"41 1","pages":"508 - 536"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45606825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action: Connecting the Dots","authors":"R. Harrison","doi":"10.1177/02662426221110144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426221110144","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship stands at a critical juncture. Responsible, as the prevailing neoliberal consensus will have it, for shaping and driving economy and society in the second half of the 20th century, it is uncertain as to whether and to what extent it will continue to do so in the different circumstances of the 21st century. Critics of the state of researching entrepreneurship argue that to date this has been characterised more by activity than by analysis, more by research than by reflection, more by exhortation than by (critical) examination, more by advocacy than by censure. The discourse of entrepreneurship (or of enterprise more generally) is for the most part an ineluctably positive discourse of change, growth, innovation, transformation (of individuals, communities, organisations, technologies, industries and markets), self-actualisation, identity formation and emancipation. This is a discourse that has transcended the economic-based notion of the entrepreneur as founder/ innovator of an enterprise (a la Schumpeter, Kirzner, von Mises, etc.) to become a metaphor encompassing a wide variety of social practises as a general model of social subjectivity (Marttila 2013): as Pozen (2008) has expressed it, ‘we are all entrepreneurs now’, and members of this increasingly entrepreneurialised society have become ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’ (Rose 1996). But this is a discourse fundamentally predicated on a cognitive bias, captured in the ‘law of the instrument’ variously attributed to Abraham Kaplan or Abraham Maslow, who observed in The Psychology of Science (1996, 15) that ‘I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail’. Whatever the problem – post-disaster reconstruction, peacebuilding in conflict and post-conflict societies, social exclusion by gender, race, social status, the digital divide, labour market exclusion, economic marginalisation (e.g. of refugee and forced migrant communities) and so on – ‘entrepreneurship’ appears to be the answer. There is, however, another, emerging, discourse that challenges this entrepreneur-hype bubble. This is reflected in growing awareness of and interest in the dark side of entrepreneurship and its harmful effects on individuals, organisations and communities (Baumol (1990), and in critiques of the pursuit of theoretical casuistry at the expense of practical relevance and impact, a concern with the ‘what’ rather than the ‘why’ of entrepreneurship (Landström andHarirchi 2019).More generally, this has been extended in an emerging critical perspective on entrepreneurship which takes a poststructural and postmodern perspective to question the regimes of domination constructed and perpetuated in the name of the entrepreneur (Jones and Spicer 2009), challenges the glorification of entrepreneurship in the prevailing overwhelmingly proentrepreneurship narrative and its associated exaggerated enthusiasm (Örtenblad 2020), and critiques the neoliberal essence","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"19 1","pages":"1041 - 1044"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79709881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factor markets, institutional quality and firm formalisation: The contingent effect of economic conditions at the founding stage","authors":"K. Galdino, Gonzalo Molina-Sieiro, B. Lamont, R. M. Holmes","doi":"10.1177/02662426221101021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426221101021","url":null,"abstract":"The informal economy makes an important contribution to economic activity but knowledge about the country-level conditions that influence an informal firm’s willingness to formalise is limited. This article integrates insights from institutional theory and the imprinting hypothesis to explain how factor markets and institutional quality affect the likelihood that informal firms formalise over time, as well as how these effects are contingent on economic conditions at the founding stage. Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys comprising of 8005 observations from 2477 firms in 73 countries, the results suggest that better factor markets and institutional quality increase the likelihood of formalisation and these relationships are strengthened by favourable economic conditions at the founding stage. The low correlation between factor markets and institutional quality supports the importance of separating these dimensions, while the moderating effect of economic conditions at the founding stage supports the importance of imprinting.","PeriodicalId":48210,"journal":{"name":"International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship","volume":"41 1","pages":"432 - 461"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48028805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}