Entrepreneurship and Regional Development最新文献

{"title":"Family firms between territory and internationalization: an authenticity based perspective","authors":"S. Ranfagni, A. Runfola, D. Sarti","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1925850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1925850","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Being authentic implies maintaining a character of genuineness and honesty, while remaining coherent with oneself and one’s surrounding context over time. It can represent a critical asset to be preserved and exploited, especially in the case of family firms. This paper explores the role of authenticity as a driving force for foreign sales expansion in those family firms that are rooted in a territory. While previous studies emphasize the emergence of a trade-off between maintaining linkages with local traditions and foreign sales expansion, this paper proposes an original perspective. We aim to answer the following question: How does a family business maintain a territorial-based identity by going international? Methodologically, this study presents the cross-case analysis of six Italian family firms whose products are expressions of the cultural legacy, history, and traditions of a territory. The results of the study find their synthesis in a model for family business internationalization driven by a territorial-based authenticity. We identify four building blocks that allow for pursuing the maintaining of the links with local traditions as well as helping family firms to grow on foreign markets, namely, integration, retention, evangelization, and reinforcement.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"42 1","pages":"555 - 579"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90592758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family firms in European regions: the role of regional institutions","authors":"F. Ricotta, R. Basco","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1925849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1925849","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Our study investigates whether the quality of regional institutions influences firms’ likelihood of being a family firm. We explore our conjecture using the EU-EFIGE/Bruegel-UniCredit dataset, which provides comparable cross-country data on manufacturing firms in seven European countries. We use a multilevel framework to analyse how firm- and regional-level variables influence firms’ likelihood of being a family firm. We find evidence that location matters in explaining firms’ probability of being a family firm but that differences between countries are more relevant than are differences between regions. Our results show that the lower the quality of regional institutions, the higher the likelihood of a firm being a family firm. Our results are robust to alternative regional-level control variables and persist after several robustness checks.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"108 1","pages":"532 - 554"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83646005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From family to families: pushing family entrepreneurship forward","authors":"K. Randerson, Hermann Frank, Clay Dibrell, Esra Memili","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2020.1727091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2020.1727091","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present guest editorial offers a review of the different conceptualizations of families in business used in research to date, shedding light on the unique characteristics of each type. Understanding the family through the lens of social systems theory offers a means for researchers to study contextually embedded family systems, offering a foundation for studying differences among families. We demonstrate that the family business system (ownership, business, family) is incomplete without a fourth component, that of the family in business. We then present the papers included in this special issue and highlight the collective contribution to research in the fields of family business and family entrepreneurship and provide directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"65 1","pages":"369 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84350600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family involvement in governance and firm performance in industrial districts. The moderating role of the industry’s technological paradigm","authors":"D. Pittino, F. Visintin, A. Minichilli, C. Compagno","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1925848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1925848","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies on industrial districts tend to highlight the advantages for companies arising from the network of relationships among actors based on the sharing of a common history, culture and norms of behaviour. It has been recently shown that family businesses succeed in leveraging on the district effect only under certain size conditions. In this work, we further advance the study of the ‘district’ effect on family businesses with the analysis of further key contingencies in addition to size, namely the actual level of family involvement and the technological sector. It has been recently shown that family businesses succeed in leveraging on the district effect only under certain size conditions: for example, according to Cucculelli and Storai’s (2015) results, medium-sized family businesses companies enjoy the advantages of operating in a district more than larger and smaller companies and than non-family businesses of similar size. In this work, we further advance the study of the ‘district’ effect on family businesses with the analysis of further key contingencies in addition to size, namely the actual level of family involvement and the technological sector. We argue that an intense involvement of family members in the governance of companies operating within districts, negatively impacts on companies’ performance due to the emergence of a phenomenon of overembeddedness. Further, we also show an industry technological paradigm, characterized by radical breakthroughs, combines with family involvement and location in a district to negatively influence a company’s performance. The study is conducted on the Bocconi Italian Observatory of Family Business and includes a final usable panel of 55,489 company/year observations.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"437 1","pages":"514 - 531"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75696627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family-centered goals, geographic focus and family firms’ internationalization: a study on export performance","authors":"Claudia Pongelli, A. Valentino, A. Calabrò, M. Caroli","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1925851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1925851","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to investigate whether family-centred goals impact on family firms’ export performance and to determine the extent to which the geographic focus (regional versus global) of the firm’s strategy changes this relationship. Our hypotheses are tested on a sample of 195 medium to large family firms. The main findings show that, while family-centred non-economic (FCNE) goals negatively impact on export performance, family-centred economic (FCE) goals have a positive influence. Moreover, empirical evidence suggests that both effects are stronger when firms adopt an international strategy with a global, rather than regional, focus. We therefore suggest that a global strategy is detrimental for those family firms strongly prioritizing FCNE goals yet beneficial for those strongly prioritizing FCE goals. Overall, our study theoretically and empirically shows that the actual emphasis that family firm owners place on family-centred goals may either facilitate or inhibit their international sales and that this influence is moderated by the geographic focus of their international activities. In so doing, our study improves our knowledge of why some family firms are more successful than others in their international endeavours.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"74 1","pages":"580 - 598"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85829285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneurs","authors":"Sandrine Stervinou, Julie Bayle-Cordier, Lorea Narvaiza, Cristina Aragón, Cristina Iturrioz","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1914740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1914740","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship research views context as central to understanding entrepreneurship as a fluid social construction. Our study answers recent call to focus on a diversity of organizational forms to deepen theorizing and to broaden the domain of what is considered entrepreneurship. Worker cooperatives are a type of social enterprise under exposed in the entrepreneurship literature. Thus, we investigate how context impacts collective social entrepreneurial processes over time by exploring how worker cooperative entrepreneurs view their contexts and their own entrepreneurial initiatives’ purposes. We introduce the term ‘participative social entrepreneurship’, which we define as ‘democratic and collaborative action, amongst both similar and diverse actors to foster positive societal change’. Findings based on a longitudinal study of worker cooperative entrepreneurs from two European territories over 2011-2020 highlight the relevance of context and purpose interplay in shaping worker cooperative entrepreneurs’ perceptions and so, the construction of participative social entrepreneurship. The study reveals that while, in theory, the worker cooperative form has a prosocial purpose naturally embedded in its democratic governance structure, social entrepreneurship in action does not always translate into voices that contest the status quo and highlights the necessity of paying attention to the factors that make participative social entrepreneurship dynamic and real.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"120 1","pages":"758 - 788"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76257169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social enterprises and regional cities: working together for mutual benefit","authors":"S. Kilpatrick, J. Farmer, S. Emery, Tracy DeCotta","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1899293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1899293","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social enterprises respond to local needs through an integrated economic and social model. It is known that social enterprises facilitate outcomes for their participants; less is known about how social enterprises contribute to outcomes for others in their locale. Activity within social enterprises was observed and interviews conducted with participants, staff, customers and leaders in Australian regional cities. Data were analysed using a conceptual framework informed by social capital and social enterprise literature that uncovered actions involving social enterprises that realise place-based outcomes, motivations for these actions, and social capital networks that facilitate them. Linking networks among high level actors in regional cities supported development of bridging networks between social enterprises and other organisations. These were activated by social enterprises or others to generate opportunities for social enterprise participants. Local organisation motivations for interacting with social enterprises complemented social enterprises’ dual social and economic mission. Local production and ‘consumption’ of products realised benefits including wellbeing and social inclusion. Findings extend knowledge by showing that social enterprises’ dual social and economic missions place them in multiple networks with overlapping membership. Network overlap generates a space for work on place-based social and economic problems and opportunities that benefit social enterprises and cities.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"44 1","pages":"741 - 757"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81757354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A quantitative-based model to assess seed accelerators’ performance","authors":"Lydia Cánovas-Saiz, I. March-Chorda, R. M. Yagüe-Perales","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1872941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1872941","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Seed accelerators are a new generation of business incubators. While the number of seed accelerators worldwide has grown exponentially, there is as yet no consensus on how to measure and analyse their performance. Therefore, the present study, using two pioneering surveys, aims to cast new light on this field by empirically assessing the performance of accelerators and the prospects of their accelerated firms. A model is built on two perspectives that are used to assess the prospects of the accelerated firms: (1) the accelerator´s perspective, and (2) the accelerated start-ups’ perspective. The results confirmed, at statistically significant levels, that the portfolio size of accelerators, their start-ups´ survival rates, and the number of employees in the accelerated firms, have a positive effect on the median value of the funding received by the accelerated start-ups from the accelerators’ funds. Furthermore, accelerators located in the U.S., and those with the greatest longevity, are shown to have a higher impact on start-ups´ survival rates. The study is not free of limitations, but its findings contribute to the still scarce quantitative literature on the performance of accelerators, and provide important managerial implications for their managers, investors, and entrepreneurs.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"6 1","pages":"332 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76419812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How much do network support and managerial skills affect women’s entrepreneurial success? The overlooked role of country economic development","authors":"D. Welsh, O. Llanos-Contreras, M. Alonso‐Dos‐Santos, Eugene Kaciak","doi":"10.1080/08985626.2021.1872939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2021.1872939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The success of women-owned businesses with regard to the stages of economic development of countries is under-examined on a global basis. This study explores the relationship between country economic and political contexts and assesses the importance of entrepreneurs’ networks and managerial skills on women’s entrepreneurial success. The research uses data from 22 countries chosen from multi-dimensional country context constructs (i.e., select economic and political factors) and measures both family and external moral and financial support and managerial skills. The results show that stock (managerial skill) and flow (family and non-family support) differentially influence women’s entrepreneurial success in countries at varying levels of competitive development. In particular, the results confirm the positive influence of managerial skills and family moral and financial support on women’s entrepreneurial success (based on annual income) in countries at a higher level of competitive development and confirm their negative influence in countries at a lower level of competitive growth. Moreover, the results reveal influences of non-family financial support (positive for highly competitive countries) on income but not non-family moral support. Public policy implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"31 1","pages":"287 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84551469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of innovation and knowledge for entrepreneurship and regional development","authors":"S. Kraus, William C. McDowell, D. Ribeiro-Soriano, M. Rodríguez-García","doi":"10.1080/22797254.2021.1872929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2021.1872929","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of entrepreneurial activity on regional economic growth continues to be a focus of research and policy-makers throughout our global environment (Carree and Thurik 2000; Agarwal, Audretsch, and Sarkar 2007). Entrepreneurial activity requires innovation when entrepreneurs move from initial disequilibrium towards equilibrium (Schumpeter 1954; Kirzner 1973). Emerging entrepreneurial ventures and the innovators behind these start-ups bring necessary change and positive growth when conditions are aligned for their success (Davidsson, Delmar, and Wiklund 2006). Public administration and government policies should support both entrepreneurship and innovation as such support is necessary for organizations as they design programmes and develop policies for growth and sustainability (Galbraith et al. 2017). New ventures need talent, good ideas and a knowledge-based economy around them to positively impact regional development (Bouncken, Kraus, and Roig-Tierno 2019). Organizations tend to access knowledge from research sources, implicitly assuming that entrepreneurship and innovation involve developing social networks and collective actions (Huggins and Johnston 2009). The discussion concerning the space and scale of knowledge networks for innovation is important to clarify. Additionally, emerging entrepreneurial firms are highly active with regard to accessing knowledge from a range of sources and geographic locations; however, these networking activities may decrease during future periods of peak firm growth (Huggins et al. 2015). Knowledge produces opportunities for technological change which can result in organizational growth or even startup activity (Shane 2001). This knowledge derives from a variety of resources such as larger organizations, research institutions, R&D activities, and more (Acs, Audretsch, and Lehmann 2013). Local regions that work to develop these networks and clusters of innovators and creators can realize growth opportunities for new ventures as well as small and medium-sized organizations which in turn can grow the regional economy. These regions, focused on incubating knowledge-based growth and development, create an ideal environment for further innovations and knowledge creation. This focus on knowledge creation within an environment may result in the development of innovative clusters and enhanced entrepreneurial ecosystems. While clusters represent similar firms within a geographic region focused on similar economic activities (Breschi and Malerba 2001; Clarkson et al. 2007), entrepreneurial ecosystems represent the collection of firms and domains of entrepreneurship that support these ventures and include six distinct areas: policies, finance, culture, supports, human capital, and markets (Liguori et al. 2019; Bendickson et al. 2020).","PeriodicalId":54210,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship and Regional Development","volume":"37 1","pages":"175 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85071592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}