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The Other Organization: Heterotopia, Management, and Entrepreneurship Open
Organizations are viewed as ordered places that legitimate the hand that holds back and that formalize structured, institutionalized ways of saying and doing. Against this backdrop, we want to see the more recent attention to the entrepren…
Performance management in the prosocial market economy: a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability Open
Purpose The purpose of this multi-voiced paper is to propose a prosocial paradigm for the field of performance management and management control systems. This new paradigm suggests cultivating prosocial behaviour and prosocial groups in or…
A symbolic violence approach to gender inequality in academia Open
Feminist scholars have long recognized the gender‐based challenges that women in academia face relative to men. Although numerous strategies have been designed and implemented to tackle this problem, the attainment of gender equality in ac…
The engaged university delivering social innovation Open
This paper examines a programme initiated and managed by an entrepreneurial university in the United Kingdom (UK), aiming to foster the circular water economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our focus is on transitioning from conventional models of…
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A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship Open
Purpose This conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business familie…
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship Open
This virtual special issue includes research on the effects of crises, in particular the COVID-19 pandemic, on entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial responses to deal with consequences of crises. This issue highlights how crises affect ent…
Managing through a crisis: emotional leadership strategies of high-growth entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
This study explores how high-growth entrepreneurs use well-being and emotional labour as tools to respond to crises. Drawing on 173 longitudinal interviews with 57 high-growth entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 crisis, we explore internal c…
Scaling the right answers – Creating and maintaining hope through social entrepreneurship in light of humanitarian crises Open
Triggered by the Russo–Ukrainian war starting early in 2022 and the subsequent movement of refugees toward various European countries, this rapid response paper provides five reflections on the role of social entrepreneurship in light of h…
Information signals and bias in investment decisions: A meta-analytic comparison of prediction and actual performance of new ventures Open
This study investigates the presence, direction, and scale of bias in investors' consideration of qualitative information signals while appraising new venture proposals through a meta-analysis of 75 empirical studies published between 2000…
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa Open
This article contributes to extending the current conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning by challenging the assumption that entrepreneurial learning is solely embodied in the entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial learning is an emergent tre…
Women’s entrepreneurial stewardship: The contribution of women to family business continuity in rural areas of Honduras Open
This paper examines the role of women in family business. Prior studies suggest that in Latin America the contribution of women in family business remains largely hidden, often relegated to a supportive role. Drawing on an entrepreneurial …
Special issue in memory of professor Alistair Anderson ‘Social Perspectives of Entrepreneuring’ Open
This Special Issue of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development honours Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship Alistair Anderson’s memory. This Special Issue offers a range of papers that engage with Alistair Anderson’s work and exten…
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice Open
Building on Alistair Anderson’s work, this paper proposes transforming enterprise education to deeply address questions of sustainability, social justice and hope in our time of multiple and complex crises. New pedagogies, practices, vocab…
Nuancing the roles of entrepreneurial universities in regional economic development Open
This paper explores the idea of the entrepreneurial university and how it differs in diverse regional and institutional settings. From the analysis of university engagement in a regional economic development programme in fifteen city-regio…
A configuration perspective of absorptive capacity in environmental management practice Open
Environmental management is becoming a popular practice in many organisations. However, the transition from old to new practices does not come without any challenges. Numerous studies have argued that the process of adopting a new practice…
Alternative investing as brokering: The embedding process of a Social Impact Bond model in a local context Open
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are gaining traction as a research topic. Using a longitudinal case study of a Norwegian social venture - Nature Magic - funded through a SIB model, this article explores the embedding process of a SIB model into…
Are They Really a New Species? Exploring the Emergence of Social Entrepreneurs Through Giddens’s Structuration Theory Open
Using Giddens’s structuration theory and empirical data from a study with social enterprise stakeholders, the article explores how social entrepreneurs and the structure co-create one another. We show that the development of the contempora…
Network Mechanisms in the Entry and Post‐Entry Phases of Internationalization: Evidence from Finnish Family Firms Open
In this study, we posed the questions: (i) What network mechanisms do family firms (FFs) use in their entry and post‐entry? (ii) How do they use these network mechanisms? (iii) Why do they use these mechanisms? We based our study on social…
A contingency theory perspective of environmental management: Empirical evidence from entrepreneurial firms Open
This article examines the roles of organizational structure of decision-making and external pressure in determining the practice of environmental management. Using contingency theory, this study argues that having a decentralized structure…
The synergy of causation and effectuation in the process of entrepreneurial networking: Implications for opportunity development Open
The resource-based view of entrepreneurial networking demonstrates how relationships are formed instrumentally through the goal-driven decision-making of causation. At the same time, evidence shows that under conditions of uncertainty, ent…
The entrepreneurial university and the region: what role for entrepreneurship departments? Open
This paper investigates the concept of the entrepreneurial university by examining roles of academic entrepreneurship departments in driving regional economic development outcomes. While a wealth of research investigates the role, activiti…
Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact Open
This editorial aims to advance the use of qualitative research methods when studying entrepreneurship. First, it outlines four characteristics of the domain of entrepreneurship that qualitative research is uniquely placed to address. In st…
Developing local entrepreneurial ecosystems through integrated learning initiatives: the Lancaster case Open
This paper considers a concept gaining popularity: entrepreneurial ecosystems. It finds a significant lacuna in the concept as it stands as it does not sufficiently consider learning within regional ecosystems. Considering the established …