...Alexandra Gaidos; Nancy Aumais; Olivier Germain Purpose This study investigates how backlash mechanisms operate to delegitimise digital feminist activism that contests dominant entrepreneurial narratives within the French start-up ecosystem. It analyses the challenges faced...

... be contacted at: mahmood.aslam@northumbria.ac.uk 08 04 2025 11 09 2025 05 02 2026 10 03 2026 16 03 2026 23 03 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social capital Entrepreneurs Networking Start-ups...

... at: sascha.kraus@uni-siegen.de 02 08 2025 02 12 2025 12 01 2026 05 02 2026 09 02 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Entrepreneurs Start-ups Entrepreneurship Resilience Configurations Founders Accelerator...

...Vivek Kumar Jha; Ravi Roshan; Sabyasachi Sinha Purpose Extant studies in entrepreneurship have explored factors that influence the birth and growth of start-up firms; however, there appears to be a dearth of studies examining the influence of founders' ambidextrous orientation on start-ups...

...Christian Felzensztein; Afsaneh Bagheri Purpose Our understanding of the strategies that lead to the success of start-ups when they scale-up is limited when it occurs at the regional periphery. The main purpose of this study is to explore the specific strategies that start-ups employ to scale-up...

... 2023 21 09 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Business development Start-ups Entrepreneurship Ethnic groups This study uses an intersectional approach to explore the barriers and enablers of refugee...

... of EO over time through reciprocal interaction processes across contexts. This study indicates that, through family dynamics, EO develops as mutually interactive processes between the immigrant entrepreneur's family in the home and host countries. Immigrants Entrepreneurial orientation Start-ups...

...Anastasia Giakoumelou; Antonio Salvi; Olga Kvasova; Ioannis Rizomyliotis Purpose Access to financing is a key success factor for start-ups. High failure rates, long payback periodse and asymmetries lead to conservative pricing and valuation discounts. The authors examine financial marketing...

... and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode . Venture capital Finance Start-ups Entrepreneurship VC represents a specific form of private-equity investment (i.e. in companies not quoted on a stock market) focused on early...

... leading to the creation of new ventures. Therein, students participate in an undergraduate (UG), or postgraduate taught (PGT) accredited programme of study through the active exploration of actual business start-up (Lackéus and Williams Middleton, 2011). This methodology is said to be a highly...

... on the impact of diverse knowledge search and knowledge formal protection in international new ventures (INVs). The study uses a quantitative methodology based on a sample of start-ups from the Spanish Community Innovation Survey data. Using ordinary least squares regressions on a 10-year period panel...

...Ganesaraman Kalyanasundaram; Sitaram Ramachandrula; Bala Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane Purpose Entrepreneurs nurture their ambitions of founding tech start-ups that facilitate significant innovations despite vulnerability and considerable uncertainty by resolutely addressing multiple challenges...

... drive differences in how individuals perceive and process environmental characteristics external from the self (Mitchell and Shepherd, 2010). In particular, the abandonment of start-up attempts can be partly attributed to two central characteristics of venture creation: (1) high uncertainty (Van...

... them a right direction. Entrepreneurial orientation Start-ups Entrepreneurship Institutions Digital technologies have been instrumental in transforming businesses and society globally (Kraus et al., 2019 ; Nambisan et al., 2017 ; Zaheer et al., 2019...

... understanding of whether and how this trade-off is achieved and how start-ups performances are affected by the way in which they face the exploration–exploitation dilemma. Start-ups are companies, partnerships or temporary organizations designed to continuously search for repeatable and scalable business...

... Licensed re-use rights only Technology business incubators (TBIs) form an indispensable part of an entrepreneurial ecosystem for the promotion of tech start-ups across the global economy. However, they have evolved in varied forms over a period of time, in terms of typologies, sponsors...

.... This study contributes to the international entrepreneurship literature with qualitative evidence of the micro-level processes of internationalisation. Very few studies investigate the early, pre-internationalisation and pre-foundation, development stages of INVs. Start-ups International...

... of this paper is to capture the role of internal and external characteristics in favouring the growth of innovative start-ups at an early stage of their life. The empirical approach of this paper is based on an econometric analysis applied to all Italian innovative start-ups with four and five years...

... in the context of self-directed, entrepreneurial teams is a relatively new phenomenon. Integrating a multi-rater assessment of leadership with personality combines interesting perspectives. Leadership Start-ups Entrepreneurship Team Leadership in self-directed teams is not formally appointed...

... entrepreneurs. The research also establishes and identifies clear links between attributions, responses, and lessons learned in the context of regenerative failure. Start-ups Business failure Attribution theory Entrepreneurial learning Hybrid attributions Regenerative failure Interest...