...Mateja Drnovšek; Melissa S. Cardon; Alenka Slavec Gomezel Purpose The aim of this study is to improve our understanding of the specific mechanisms by which entrepreneurs regulate their health and maintain a desired level of performance under the high demands of the entrepreneurial environment. We...

...Taelee Kwon; Susie Hong; Ki-Hyun Um Purpose The purpose of this study is to (1) explore how social customer relationship management (social CRM) capabilities–defined as the strategic use of social media and technologies to manage customer interactions and relationships–influence the performance...

...Colin Donaldson; Sascha Kraus; Andreas Kallmuenzer; Cheng-Feng Cheng Purpose This study aims to explore which relational factors are crucial for accelerator-based start-ups to achieve high financial performance and whether innovation levels influence this relationship. Utilizing fsQCA and drawing...

..., this research probes the performance ramifications of using external accountants as advisors. Design/methodology/approach Hierarchical regression is used to test the hypotheses. The mediation hypothesis is tested by bootstrapping the indirect effect. The interaction hypothesis is visualized with simple...

... Licensed re-use rights only The findings show that a non-family outsider CEO is particularly valuable when performance resides far below aspiration levels, and there is a high availability of slack resources. The study provides novel insights of the benefits and drawbacks of selecting non...

.... A competitor orientation facilitated strong coopetition-oriented partnerships comprised of extended family and intra-community members that helped enhance individual firms' performance, maintained family employment and sustained their cluster. It also helped owners develop subtle counter strategies where weak...

...Robert Newbery; Stephen Roderick; Johannes Sauer; Matthew Gorton; Keith Robbins Purpose Research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) seeks to understand the EO–performance relationship. However, at a strategic level, performance relates to a competitive advantage and comprises both value-added...

...Misagh Tasavori; Charan Raj Bhattarai Purpose Social enterprises (SEs) offer a unique context as they have the challenge of finding solutions that not only improve their economic performance but also their social performance, simultaneously. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether...

...Bisrat A. Misganaw; Dawit Z. Assefa; Ana Colovic Purpose This study examines the impact of initial informality years on subsequent firm performance and the moderating effect of institutional quality on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on the World Bank Enterprises...

... in their sustainable innovation (SI) performance. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 373 Italian manufacturing firms is clustered (using non-hierarchical cluster analysis) based on their combinations of market orientation (MO) and technology orientation (TO). Subsequently, the one-way between-groups analysis...

...Anna Wójcik-Karpacz; Sascha Kraus; Jarosław Karpacz Purpose This article investigates (in)direct relationships between team-level entrepreneurial orientation and team performance, where team entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is measured as a team-level construct, not as concentration of team...

... and performance. Passion is revealed to be an individual phenomenon, one composed of central and peripheral concepts that include—contrary to prior theories—personality traits and life contexts. Furthermore, the results suggest that the concordance of concepts determines the scope, degree and performance...

... in business skills will improve business performance and probably have other important effects. This study was undertaken with the cooperation Vietnam Women’s Union and PeaceTrees Vietnam. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of business training programmes for women microcredit recipients...

...Mike Simpson; Joanne Padmore; Nicki Newman Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop an academic theoretical framework relating success and performance in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) so that future research could be carried out to identify the critical success factors (CSFs...

... --> Small firms Financial performance Performance Flexibility Contingency theory Information systems This book is a consolidation of findings from a research project that took place over a period of three successive years from 1994‐1997 in Scotland, UK. The book is concerned mainly...

... and income generation. Despite the growing body of research on the impact that the entrepreneur has on the performance of small firms, very little of this research has focused on small business service firms. This paper reports findings from a study of the entrepreneurship process in a sample of 20 small...