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{"title":"Quasipractice: How the entrepreneurship educator develops entrepreneurial practice expertise","authors":"Raj K. Shankar ,&nbsp;Andrew C. Corbett","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106435","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106435","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a growing interest in exploring the practice-based foundations of entrepreneurship education. Despite significant advancement in scholarship regarding entrepreneurship education, our understanding of the ‘educator’, especially how they develop and sustain their abilities to enable learning in practice-based entrepreneurship education, remains sorely understudied. In contrast to existing cognitive learning approaches, we suggest practice-based knowing as an alternative pathway to develop entrepreneurial practice expertise. We build on Heidegger's existential ontology and use the ideas of entwinement and breakdown to build—<em>quasipractice</em>—<em>a process of developing entrepreneurial practice expertise through proximal engagement in the actions, emotions, and cognitive experiences of an entrepreneur, including the experience of temporary breakdowns, and reflection on the breakdowns experienced.</em> Quasipractice helps advance the literature on both the professional development of the entrepreneurship educator and the larger area of practice-based entrepreneurship education.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 6","pages":"Article 106435"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142095614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions","authors":"Björn C. Mitzinneck ,&nbsp;Jana Coenen ,&nbsp;Florian Noseleit ,&nbsp;Christian Rupietta","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106420","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106420","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates which local conditions enable community-based enterprises (CBEs) to create impact. Advancing our limited understanding of the various contexts that enable CBEs to tackle societal issues locally, we investigate supportive conditions across 77 CBEs driving the energy transition in their geographic community. Through qualitative comparative analysis, we identify four condition configurations for CBE impact creation. Across these configurations, we reveal transferable mechanisms helping CBEs to engage community members (<em>Opportunity-</em> and <em>Community-anchoring</em>) and handle the absence of a supportive condition <em>(Circumventing</em> and <em>Compensating).</em> Our study suggests how CBEs can combine these mechanisms to create impact in varied local contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 6","pages":"Article 106420"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902624000429/pdfft?md5=2073d5bc15de894b2221eb06c4f664e9&pid=1-s2.0-S0883902624000429-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142040222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feeding the hype cycle: Entrepreneurial swagger, passion, and inflated expectations","authors":"Kevin Heupel ,&nbsp;Jorge Arteaga Fonseca ,&nbsp;Matthew Rutherford ,&nbsp;Bryan Edwards","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106432","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106432","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hype occurs when expectations exceed reality. For founders promoting innovative technologies, hype often attracts the resources necessary to grow a new venture. Hype is gaining prominence in entrepreneurship literature, and it is understood that many entrepreneurs jumpstart their ventures by promoting optimistic, future projections to entice stakeholders. Unfortunately, little is known about how skilled cultural founders generate hype to attract stakeholders. In our study, we examine how founders function as “skilled cultural operatives” to positively manipulate the emergence of hype. We conduct an experiment on 148 members of the media, and we find support for our theorizing in that founders who display their entrepreneurial abilities (swagger) combined with an authentic emotional commitment to the venture (passion), it increases media expectations (hype).</p></div><div><h3>Executive summary</h3><p>For the founders of innovative technologies, hype is not just beneficial, it is a strategic necessity. Hype is characterized by an overinflated interest in emerging technologies where future expectations outweigh current capabilities. It serves as a magnet for essential resources such as funding and customer interest. This dynamic, albeit critical, is often misunderstood and underestimated, in particular as regards the founder's role in its development. It is therefore of paramount importance to unravel the nuances of how founders contribute to the creation of hype.</p><p>This study explores founders as “skilled cultural operatives,” adept at using their cultural toolkit through sensegiving to inflate media expectations, thereby creating hype. Sensegiving in entrepreneurship involves a mix of verbal and non-verbal cues to communicate, clarify, and justify new technology. It is particularly important if there are no historical references or industry standards. The study posits that effective sensegiving through metaphorical reasoning, in which founders display their confidence and passion in a highly visible and expressive way, is key to generating media attention to generate hype.</p><p>In the present study, the concept of “swagger” emerged as a critical sensegiving mechanism. Defined as a conspicuous display of confidence through various expressions, swagger is a tool for founders to project their abilities and attract media coverage. However, this swagger, even if it attracts attention, may initially be perceived negatively, as a mere showmanship without substance. This research provides a nuanced understanding of this perception and shows that if swagger is infused with genuine passion, it transforms into a powerful catalyst for generating hype.</p><p>Conclusively, this study enriches the literature on hype cycles, moving beyond mere descriptions to a deeper understanding of how founders generate hype. By introducing and operationalizing the concept of entrepreneurial swagger, this study expands the range of sensegiving strategies available","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 6","pages":"Article 106432"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141984852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption","authors":"Daniel S. Andrews ,&nbsp;Blake Mathias ,&nbsp;Arun Kumaraswamy ,&nbsp;Andreas P.J. Schotter","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106433","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106433","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prior studies of craft-based categories have emphasized member ventures' prototypical features of smallness and innovativeness, collaboration and cohesiveness norms, and a perception of shared fate forging their strong oppositional identity vis-a-vis industrialized producers. However, our study of craft breweries reveals the potential pitfalls of rigidly adhering to these features and norms during market disruptions. As consumer behaviors changed during the COVID-19 crisis, smallness and innovativeness became liabilities while scale and familiarity became indispensable, favoring larger breweries over prototypical members. This shift exposed hidden divisions within the category, challenging long-held beliefs in shared fate and entrenching heterogeneity among members. The consequent realignment within the category demonstrates how market disruptions can reshape craft-based ventures and categories. Our study advances a theoretical understanding of the dynamic nature of prototypical features and norms: An adherence to category prototypes can become a source of vulnerability during times of significant upheaval.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 6","pages":"Article 106433"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141909653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Journal of business venturing 2023 year in review: The year of the whole-person entrepreneur","authors":"Angelique Slade Shantz ,&nbsp;Jeffery S. McMullen","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106434","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This editorial reflects on a strong recurring theme noticed when evaluating the JBV publications of 2023 (Volume 38, Issues 1–6) for the annual best paper award. We refer to this theme as “whole-person entrepreneurship”, i.e., how does the who of entrepreneurship shape the what of entrepreneurship. It consists of articles that sought an understanding of entrepreneurs as children, mothers, spouses, religious believers, political beings, hobbyists, victims, and community-members. These articles revealed how an understanding of who “else” entrepreneurs are (other than some role or function) had much to teach about what entrepreneurs do as well as how, why, where, and when they do it. In the following editorial, we offer some evidence for this observation, provide explanation for how the field may have arrived at this “humanistic turn”, and articulate some ways in which it this humanistic turn might shape scholarship in entrepreneurship going forward.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 6","pages":"Article 106434"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141963776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Labor market reform as an external enabler of high-growth entrepreneurship: A multi-level institutional contingency perspective","authors":"Daniel L. Bennett ,&nbsp;Gary Wagner ,&nbsp;Michael Araki","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106428","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106428","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the impact of friction-reducing labor market reforms on regional high-growth entrepreneurship (HGE) through the effects of reduced legal enforceability of noncompete agreements (NCAs). We draw on new institutional economic theory and the external enablement framework, with insights from the theory of market-preserving federalism, to explore how these reforms enable (disable) HGE within the context of other, concurrent institutional changes at different governance levels. We assemble a novel multi-level longitudinal dataset and employ staggered difference-in-differences estimation to assess causal effects. Our findings suggest that while reducing the enforceability of NCAs can foster regional HGE, the effectiveness of such reforms is heavily influenced by concurrent federal and local institutional changes. In sectors facing significant federal regulatory expansion, the benefits brought by the reduction of NCA enforceability are negated. However, local pro-market institutional changes can counteract the disabling effects of federal regulatory expansion. This highlights the need to consider how the evolving institutional environment influences potential enablers of HGE, cautioning against claims that these labor market reforms (or other exogenous environmental changes) universally yield positive entrepreneurship outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 6","pages":"Article 106428"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141909654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking anxiety to passion: Emotion regulation and entrepreneurs' pitch performance","authors":"Lily Yuxuan Zhu ,&nbsp;Maia J Young ,&nbsp;Christopher W. Bauman","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106421","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106421","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate a strategy entrepreneurs can use to manage their emotions prior to pitching: <em>linking anxiety to passion</em>. We theorize that internally acknowledging anxiety and interpreting it as a reflection of one's passion for the venture can make passionate feelings salient, facilitate expressions of passion during pitches, and increase judges' evaluations of pitch performance. A field study and a randomized experiment support the theory, offering insights for how entrepreneurs can mentally reframe their seemingly detrimental emotional experiences for beneficial outcomes. More broadly, this work demonstrates the utility of fostering beneficial emotions rather than just alleviating negative ones.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 5","pages":"Article 106421"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141637221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda","authors":"Nicole Coviello ,&nbsp;Erkko Autio ,&nbsp;Satish Nambisan ,&nbsp;Holger Patzelt ,&nbsp;Llewellyn D.W. Thomas","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106419","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106419","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concepts of ‘scaling,’ ‘scalability,’ and ‘scale-up’ are increasingly used in business research and practice. However, the literature reveals a range of definitions for each, and often, their meanings are only implied. This diminishes the ability to build cumulative and meaningful insight - and conduct research - on each concept. In this editorial, we offer a systematic review that assesses and harmonizes prior definitions of these important concepts. This allows us to define and differentiate between (a) scaling as an organizational process, (b) scalability as an ordinary organizational capability, and (c) scale-up as a phase of organizational development. Complementing and extending existing scholarly work, we develop a rich agenda for scaling-related research in entrepreneurship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 5","pages":"Article 106419"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902624000417/pdfft?md5=67e3dd41502d028f5bf9f3f586c260f7&pid=1-s2.0-S0883902624000417-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141630076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Internet and the gender gap in entrepreneurship: Evidence from China","authors":"Xiaoyan Sun ,&nbsp;Waverly Ding ,&nbsp;Xuanli Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106417","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Internet has transformed economic activities in many important ways over the past two decades. This study examines the role of the Internet in narrowing the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Building on the assumptions that the Internet facilitates information transmission and breaks down information barriers for aspiring entrepreneurs, the study hypothesizes that (a) the Internet narrows the gender gap in the probability of entrepreneurship, and (b) the gender gap–mitigating effect of the Internet is stronger for the more disadvantaged members of society. These hypotheses are tested with six waves of data from the China Family Panel Studies, a nationally representative longitudinal survey series from 2010 to 2020. Empirical evidence based on the analysis of 25,177 individuals confirms that Internet use is associated with a narrower gender gap in entrepreneurship. In addition, the gender gap–mitigating effect of the Internet is stronger for less educated individuals and those who live in regions with a lower level of gender equality. The gender gap–mitigating effect of the Internet is also stronger for informal (rather than formal) entrepreneurship. The Internet appears to have a democratizing effect by facilitating entrepreneurship among the more socially and economically disadvantaged subsets of society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"39 5","pages":"Article 106417"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141542844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Journal of Business Venturing 2024 year in review: The year of exercising entrepreneurial agency in response to crises","authors":"Oana Branzei ,&nbsp;Jeffery S. McMullen ,&nbsp;Scott L. Newbert ,&nbsp;Christian Schwens","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2025.106485","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusvent.2025.106485","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When various forms of crisis hit, they can stimulate changes in entrepreneurial agency – the capacity to act (or choose not to) – and the actions entrepreneurs take to mitigate the threats and pursue the new opportunities those crises create. While assessing articles for the &lt;em&gt;Journal of Business Venturing&lt;/em&gt;'s annual “Best Paper” award, we observed this to be a recurring theme across a significant number of the studies published in 2024. Inspired by this research, we summarize the 17 articles that explored this theme and develop a framework that highlights material, relational, and discursive concerns brought about by crises. In response entrepreneurs across individual or collective levels take action to preserve or cultivate distinct forms of entrepreneurial agency – adaptive, allied, and censored – and to resolve various paradoxes of entrepreneurial agency. We close with a brief discussion of the growing relevance of a social symbolic lens in reconciling how entrepreneurs construe and respond to crises and how the specific forms of agency and paradox identified could inform theory both within and beyond entrepreneurship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Executive summary&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;This article began as a search for the “Best Paper” published in &lt;em&gt;Journal of Business Venturing (JBV)&lt;/em&gt; in 2024. The editor-in-chief selected a panel of editors who then reviewed each of the 49 articles published in volume 39, issues 1–6, to identify those that were bold, broad, and rigorous. We arrived at a shortlist of five articles that best exemplified these criteria, from which the entire &lt;em&gt;JBV&lt;/em&gt; editorial team voted for the winner: “Sight unseen: The visibility paradox of entrepreneurship in an informal economy,” by Robert Nason, Siddharth Vedula, Joel Bothello, Sophie Bacq, and Andrew Charman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In addition to enabling the selection of a best paper, this process revealed a common theme cutting across more than one-third of the articles published throughout the year; namely, “how entrepreneurs exercise agency in response to crises.” Traditionally, crises have been defined as periods of turmoil that disrupt patterns of economic activities and represent acute potential threats to the livelihoods of those affected. Over the past decade, however, scholars (both within and outside the field of entrepreneurship) have gradually shifted attention from single, separate, and short-lasting episodes that momentarily disrupt entrepreneurial endeavors (&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Doern et al., 2016&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) to plural, entangled and long-lasting combinations, sometimes referred to as poly-crises (&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Klyver and McMullen, 2025&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;). To consider both conceptualizations, we take a broader perspective of crisis, using the term holistically to include both acute and enduring widespread structural challenges. We reason that, by defying conformity and attempting actions that question a society's taken for granted assumptions about how the world works, entr","PeriodicalId":51348,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing","volume":"40 4","pages":"Article 106485"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143583086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}