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How shared leadership and team personality composition interact to improve entrepreneurial team performance: Evidence from China
Wencang Zhou, Yanli Zhang, Yali ShenThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the contingency effects of personality composition on the shard leadership and entrepreneurial team performance…
Do informal institutions affect entrepreneurial intentions?
Nataliia OstapenkoThe purpose of this paper is to empirically define the ways in which informal institutions influence entrepreneurial intentions. It tests the statement that informal institutions…
Follow for follow: marketing of a start-up company on Instagram
Henrik Virtanen, Peter Björk, Elin SjöströmThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the deliberate social media marketing practices of a start-up company. The study aims to measure the effects of these practices (i.e…
Does dynamic trade-off theory explain Portuguese SME capital structure decisions?
Filipe Sardo, Zelia SerrasqueiroThe purpose of this paper is to analyse if capital structure decisions of small- and medium-sized Portuguese firms are in accordance with the predictions of dynamic trade-off…
Italian craft beer revolution: do spatial factors matter?
Roberto Esposti, Matteo Fastigi, Elena ViganòThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the emergence of microbreweries in Italy over the last 20 years (period 1993-2014) and assess its main determinants.
Antecedents of growth-oriented entrepreneurship before and during the Greek economic crisis
Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexandra Kontolaimou, Aggelos TsakanikasThe purpose of this paper is to explore potential drivers of high-growth intentions of early-stage entrepreneurs in Greece before and after the onset of the financial crisis of…
SME heterogeneity and board configurations: an empirical typology
Lotfi Karoui, Wafa Khlif, Coral IngleyThe purpose of this paper is to model SME board configurations and then to examine empirically their diversity. Polarity in corporate board research around two primary tasks…
Applying “attribution theory” to determine the factors that lead to the failure of entrepreneurial ventures in Colombia
Clara Pardo, William AlfonsoThe purpose of this paper is to use attribution theory to identify the factors that contribute to the failure of entrepreneurial ventures in Colombia.
The strategic hybrid orientation and brand performance of B2B SMEs
Muhammad Anees-ur-Rehman, Saila Saraniemi, Pauliina Ulkuniemi, Pia Hurmelinna-laukkanenThe purpose of this paper is to learn how strategic hybrid orientation – constructed from brand and market orientations – is related to the brand awareness, brand credibility, and…
Greening competitiveness for hotels and restaurants
Fabio Iraldo, Francesco Testa, Pietro Lanzini, Massimo BattagliaThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey-based study performed on Italian SMEs in the “hotel, restaurant, café” (HORECA) sector, aimed at investigating the…
Family influence and SME performance under conditions of firm size and age
Albert Lwango, Régis Coeurderoy, Gabriel A. Giménez RocheThe purpose of this paper is to provide a better assessment of the positive impact of family influence (FI) on the performance of SMEs and investigate a possible shift with firm…
Expectations and achievements in new firms
Lars Kolvereid, Espen John IsaksenThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the antecedents of business growth expectations and subsequent accumulated sales revenues and employment costs. Hypotheses are derived…
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