{"title":"The Two Sides of Crowdfunding Success: Attributes and Motivations of Backers and Entrepreneurs—Evidence from Israel","authors":"Dana Nayer, Mosi Rosenboim, Miki Malul","doi":"10.1177/09713557241233919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557241233919","url":null,"abstract":"Using two studies of the same leading Israeli crowdfunding platform—‘Headstart’—various aspects of the fundraising method discussed in this article were explored. The first study identifies the factors that impact the amount of investment in crowdfunding projects. Using data from 517 backers who invested in ‘Headstart’ projects, direct correlations were established between the age of the backers, the minimum tangible reward levels, being friends or family of the entrepreneurs and the level of risk aversion with the investment amount. It is argued that these results are related to more extensive information being available to family and friends. Furthermore, the findings implicate that for different amounts of investment, different factors will have an impact. The second study seeks to identify the crowdfunding entrepreneurs’ unique characteristics that make some of them succeed in funding their projects more than others. According to the responses of 162 crowdfunding entrepreneurs to the ‘Big Five’ questionnaire, their agreeableness and extraversion have a positive impact on the success of campaign funding, but the impact is gender related. Neuroticism and conscientiousness are also factors. These studies contribute to the literature by using rare, first-hand information from entrepreneurs and backers to identify the internal and external factors that lead to success in crowdfunding.","PeriodicalId":512101,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Entrepreneurship","volume":"2015 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140076538","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":"Students’ Sustainable Entrepreneurship Intentions: The Role of Sustainable Values and Culture","authors":"Daniela Gimenez-Jimenez, Martina Harc","doi":"10.1177/09713557241232246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557241232246","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainable values have been enforced in societies, given individuals’ awareness of the societal challenges faced by current and future generations. Building upon the theory of planned behaviour and the value literature, this article examines whether and how sustainable values, specifically pro-environmental and solidarity values, influence sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in two different cultural contexts: Ecuador and Germany. About 297 university students were recruited to test the hypotheses. The findings reveal cultural differences in how sustainable values are associated with the behavioural mechanism that leads to sustainable entrepreneurial intentions. Surprisingly, pro-environmental values are not related to the behavioural mechanism that leads to sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in either Germany or Ecuador, whereas the solidarity values—sustainable entrepreneurial intentions relationship is fully mediated by behavioural mechanisms in Ecuador, and in Germany, the attitude towards sustainable entrepreneurship and perceived behavioural control towards sustainability partially mediate this relationship. These findings demonstrate the importance of contextualising entrepreneurial intentions in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":512101,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Entrepreneurship","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140056010","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":"Uncovering Determinants of Entrepreneurial Behaviour in a Transitioning Economy: A Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis","authors":"Rebean Al-Silefanee, Niels Bosma","doi":"10.1177/09713557241233823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557241233823","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research article is to explore the determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour among university students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The study uses a novel approach of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to depart from traditional assumptions that causal mechanisms apply equally to all individuals within a group. The study examines how shared characteristics may influence entrepreneurial behaviour. The study contributes to the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) literature by identifying different configurations of factors that lead to entrepreneurial behaviour. The study finds that these configurations vary depending on the student’s gender, personal valuation of entrepreneurship, self-evaluation, and perceived support from their environment. These findings suggest that the context in which students are situated plays a crucial role in shaping their entrepreneurial behaviour, highlighting the importance of considering within-sample variations when studying entrepreneurial intentions. This research article uses a novel approach, fsQCA, to explore the factors that influence entrepreneurial behaviour. It departs from traditional assumptions that the same causal mechanisms apply to all individuals within a group, and instead examines how shared characteristics may influence entrepreneurial behaviour.","PeriodicalId":512101,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Entrepreneurship","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140056118","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":"Differently Abled Entrepreneurs: A Systematic Literature Review on Fifty Years of Research—Exploring Thoughts and Debate with Reference to Entrepreneurship","authors":"Simran Sodhi, Amit K Dwivedi","doi":"10.1177/09713557241234022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557241234022","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship in disadvantaged sections of society has always been in focus. Researchers have explored the entrepreneurship development phenomenon in various disadvantaged groups, namely tribal, rural, native, women, differently abled and other backward sections of society. There is an emergent stream of literature that explores the phenomenon among people with disabilities. Though in its infancy, this area has enriched entrepreneurship research in the past 50 years. This article aims to map and review the literature on differently abled entrepreneurs, with 130 articles contributing to this field. It highlights details about the top publications, major citations, authors, institutions and countries that have contributed over the years. Beyond a comprehensive bibliometric overview, the article performs a thematic analysis and identifies a spectrum of eight major themes, highlighting a pathway for future studies. Lastly, the implications for enhancing the adoption of entrepreneurship among the differently abled are discussed in brief.","PeriodicalId":512101,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Entrepreneurship","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140056114","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":"Micro-entrepreneurship, Institutional Environment and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Weaving Clusters in West Bengal, India","authors":"Indranil De, Saswata Narayan Biswas, Devleena Dey","doi":"10.1177/09713557241233904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557241233904","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares micro-enterprises’ performance and the entrepreneurial ability of weavers as perceived by the weavers themselves under two different institutional environments: one dominated by a cooperative society and the other dominated by private traders. Weavers in the private trader-dominated institutional environment are more likely to introduce new designs, develop new products and usher client satisfaction. However, the determinants of overall entrepreneurial ability reveal that after controlling for several factors, the weavers associated with a cooperative society seem to have significantly higher abilities. Analysing the marginal effects of the institutional environment, it is observed that the perceived quality of handlooms, weaver’s ability to bargain for returns and ability to efficiently manage business finances are much better in the cooperative-dominated cluster as compared to the private trader-dominated cluster. Furthermore, the resilience of enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic was much higher in the cooperative-dominated business environment. Enterprises using more unpaid female household labour were more resilient than others during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":512101,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139980856","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}