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- Andersén, Jim, 1976-
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What about the employees in entrepreneurial firms? : A multi-level analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, role ambiguity, and social support
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 35:8, s. 969-990
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has mainly addressed outcomes of EO at the level of the firm. However, few studies have examined how EO affects employees. Using a multi-level analysis of 343 employees nested in 25 SMEs, revealed that EO will increase the degree of role ambiguity among employees. Social support from management was not found to have any effect on the relationship between EO and role ambiguity. However, social support from co-workers weakens the EO-ambiguity relationship and can counteract the negative effects of EO to some degree. The study contributes to the EO literature by being one of very few that have considered possible negative consequences of EO, and it also highlights how to reduce role ambiguity in entrepreneurial SMEs.
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- Dalborg, Cecilia, et al.
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The idea is not enough : The role of self-efficacy in mediating the relationship between pull entrepreneurship and founder passion – a research note
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 33:8, s. 974-984
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This research note demonstrates that self-efficacy is important for understanding why an attractive idea may lead an entrepreneur to develop passion. Drawing upon a survey of 103 respondents, we find that self-efficacy mediates the influence of pull entrepreneurship on founder passion suggesting that being pulled toward opportunities to start a business is not directly required for entrepreneurial passion to develop. Instead, pull entrepreneurship increases self-efficacy and assists the individual to develop the skills typical of an entrepreneur. This instills individual self-efficacy beliefs, which in turn are prerequisites for passion to grow. As such, this research uncovers a skill-based explanation of how founder passion develops.
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- DeTienne, Dawn, et al.
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Studying exit from entrepreneurship: New directions and insights
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 34:2, s. 151-156
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on entrepreneurial exit has established itself as a more recognized component of the entrepreneurial process and a distinctive domain of entrepreneurship research. Despite the progress made, there still exists important topics within entrepreneurial exit where scholarly understanding is scant. This special issue discusses new and open topics of research on entrepreneurial exit. Three papers examine three such topics including pricing intentions of exiting entrepreneurs, exit considerations among angel investors, and the relationship between exit and failure in new ventures.
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- Discua Cruz, Allan, et al.
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Understanding the small family business: Past, present and future
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1741-2870 .- 0266-2426.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Small businesses are vital to the social and economic fabric of communities and countries around the world. Most small businesses are family businesses. Studies in the International Small Business Journal (ISBJ) have noted the influence of family in the creation, management, development and continuity of small firms. From its onset to its most recent issues, research published in ISBJ has highlighted the value of understanding the special nature of small firms that operate as family businesses. This Virtual Special Issue brings together a collection of papers from leading scholars that provide a nuanced overview of key discussions, themes and opportunities for further research in ISBJ.
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- Efendic, Nedim, et al.
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Growth in first- and second-generation immigrant firms in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 34:8, s. 1028-1052
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the burgeoning literature on immigrant entrepreneurship, there is a dearth of research on the social and economic factors shaping the performance of immigrant-run firms. Drawing upon human and social capital theory and assimilation theory, we investigate differences in performance measured as revenue growth in a comparative study of native and immigrant CEOs. Following 50,002 small firms in Sweden over four years, we find distinct patterns in both firm size and revenue growth between firms managed by immigrants and by natives. While firms run by second-generation immigrants from OECD countries exhibit higher growth rates than natives, the reverse is true for second generation immigrants from non-OECD countries, suggesting that economic integration in terms of immigrants’ small business growth in Sweden is characterized by segmented rather than universal assimilation.
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- Gherardi, Silvia
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Authoring the female entrepreneur while talking the discourse of work-family life balance
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 33:6, s. 649-666
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article illustrates the gendering of entrepreneurship as an intertwined process of gendering and entrepreneuring that can commence from the analysis of a single situated practice. The practice I explore is deemed 'authoring own-self as entrepreneur', that is, how the 'I' is authored through narrative and discursive processes, mobilized in the presentation of a public identity within a community of entrepreneurs. This is illustrated by four ways of authoring the process of becoming a female entrepreneur in relation to gender and life issues: as a firm-creator, as a coauthor of a project, as a responsible wife, as a member of the second generation. In authoring entrepreneuring, discursive resources are mobilized and edited within a narrative of identity where the process of negotiating one of the major narratives in the field (the work-family life balance) is performed. The discourse on work-family life balance is traditionally constructed in dichotomous terms, and its gender subtext is taken for granted. It portrays a supposed universality of gender conditions based on the implicit assumptions that when women work their family life is under threat, that work and family are two separate and separable spheres of activities, that it is a women's responsibility to keep them in balance, and finally that women in entrepreneurship, as in any other working environment, will be affected by the potential unbalance since their primary loyalty would be to reproduction and the home. On the contrary when female entrepreneuring is conceived as a life form, the discourse on work-family life balance is challenged.
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- Helin, Jenny, 1972-, et al.
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Family business succession in dialogue : The case of differing backgrounds and views
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 34:4, s. 487-505
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the role of communication during family business succession has been highlighted in numerous studies, communication has mostly been implicitly addressed in relation to other issues and seldom as an issue in itself. This has led to a situation where we know the importance of communication, but how it matters, and how enriching communication can be achieved, is often overlooked. In light of this, the purpose of this article is to develop a greater understanding of succession as a process taking place within emergent conversations. Based on a real-time qualitative study of an owner family’s conversations during succession and Bakhtin’s notion of the ‘utterance’, three dimensions of dialogic transformation are elaborated upon: the role of differences during conversations, the role of multi-voiced conversations, and the role of listening during conversations. When these dimensions are viewed together, they contribute to current family business research by emphasizing the need to better understand the present moment during succession conversations. We are conceptualizing the present moment as a ‘living moment’; as a reminder of the once-occurring, unique and momentary transformation that can take place between family members in such encounters. Implications for research as well as practice are elaborated upon.
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- Henry, Colette, et al.
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Gender and entrepreneurship research : A review of methodological approaches
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 34:3, s. 217-241
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the findings of a systematic literature review (SLR) of the gender and entrepreneurship literature published in 18 journals over a 30-year period. The SLR sought to identify methodological trends in the field of gender and entrepreneurship and to criticallyexplore the type of methodological innovations needed in future scholarship. Findings reveal aproliferation of large-scale empirical studies focused on male/female comparisons, often with little detail provided on industry sector or sampling methods and with either a weak or no feminist perspective. We argue that future scholars must develop the methodological repertoire to match emerging trends towards post-structural feminist approaches; this may require a radical move towards more innovative, in-depth qualitative methodologies such as life histories, case study or discourse analysis.
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- Högberg, Lena, 1979-, et al.
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Categorising and labelling entrepreneurs : Business support organisations constructing the Other through prefixes of ethnicity and immigrantship
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 34:3, s. 242-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article demonstrates how Swedish support organisations approach and target immigrant entrepreneurs in terms of categorisation and labelling. In their strategic positioning, and as a result of framing and communicating specific target groups for their activities, organisations simultaneously produce and reproduce categories of clients. We argue that despite its emancipatory intent, the process of categorisation runs the risk of reproducing an inferior Other. Adding prefixes in labelling entrepreneurs may replicate the societal hierarchies that business support initiatives were designed to counteract. This article questions the basis of business support for minority entrepreneurs and is a contribution to wider debates concerned with exposing the constructed nature of entrepreneurship.
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- Morgan, Todd, et al.
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The Dark Side of the Entrepreneurial Orientation and Market Orientation Interplay : A New Product Development Perspective
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Small Business Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 0266-2426 .- 1741-2870. ; 33:7, s. 731-751
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the dark side of the entrepreneurial orientation–market orientation interplay, and introduces consumer learning to the research stream. In a sample of 206 mid-sized manufacturing firms, the study shows that entrepreneurial orientation has a positive impact on new product development performance, but the effects are reduced when firms simultaneously implement a market orientation philosophy. While having both an entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation philosophy may hinder new product development performance, the article examines how a high market orientation may help reduce consumer learning and enhance the adoption of radical new products
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