...Charles Stephen Tundui; Hawa Petro Tundui Purpose While current research highlights the importance of entrepreneurial aspirations in business performance, expansion decisions and outcomes, the evidence of how they influence and translate into business growth has not been fully explored...

... and business performance remains mixed. This article examines this relationship by analyzing, on the one hand, the role of formality on innovation and, on the other hand, the moderating effect of formality on the relationship between innovation and the performance of business in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa...

...Kim Man Erica Lee; Yanto Chandra; Ho Lee Purpose The social venture (SV) is an increasingly popular form of organization to pursue social goals using a commercial approach. Although marketing plays an important role in SV research and a key driver of the performance of SVs, how and the extent...

... this data to examine their performance and survival. Findings The findings suggest that the increase of the COVID-19 virus contagion per se did not severely affect entrepreneurial ventures' performance and survival. However, the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic did weaken entrepreneurial...

...Galina Shirokova; Nailya Galieva; Diana Doktorova; Joshua V. White; Louis Marino Purpose This study examines the relationship between strategic entrepreneurial behaviors (SEBs) and the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an emerging market context. The authors expand upon...

... to this infrastructure has a positive impact on company performance. Research limitations/implications A main limitation of this paper is the environment of study in which corruption appeared to be institutionalised. It would therefore be interesting to extend the results obtained by conducting research in other...

...Munjiati Munawaroh; Nurul Indarti; Wakhid Slamet Ciptono; Tur Nastiti Purpose This study's main objective is to examine the effect of learning from entrepreneurial failure on performance, with a type of failure as a moderator variable. Interactions between internal and external causes of failure...

...Simone Regina Didonet; Andrew Fearne Purpose This paper explores the nuanced relationship between individual and firm performance through the lens of market information use, in the specific context of small businesses, shedding light on the specificity of information use and impact of information...

...Rosalia Santulli; Carmen Gallucci; Mariateresa Torchia; Andrea Calabrò With a view to contribute to the debate, this study draws on the upper echelons theory (UET) (Hambrick and Mason, 1984) that suggests looking at top management team (TMT) when studying performance implications. The TMT has...

... attempts to explain performance through the development of innovations within small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Specifically, the authors analyse the determinants of innovation and assess the role of technological and non-technological innovations in performance. Based on a sample of 508...

...Catarina Afonso Alves; Ana Paula Matias Gama; Mário Augusto Purpose This study examines how stewardship might mediate the influence of family ownership on firm financial performance. The authors argue that differences in financial performance may reflect not only the family's influence but also...

...Samuel Adomako Purpose The purpose of this paper was to examine the joint effects of regulatory focus, entrepreneurial persistence and institutional support on new venture performance. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a random survey approach to sample 204 new ventures from Ghana...

... from a higher level of resilience. The purpose of this study is to understand how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) brings about firms' performance through the moderating role of CEOs' self-transcendence values in the context of a low-resilient sanctioned economy. Design/methodology/approach...

...Curtis Sproul; Kevin Cox; Amanda Ross Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate different types of investment actions undertaken by entrepreneurial firms to determine how these actions influence performance. Specifically, the effects of entrepreneurial action with regards to investments...

...Robert Zacca; Mumin Dayan Results show that within the small enterprise setting, managerial competence indirectly influences performance by influencing EO and willingness to change plays a partial mediating role through which EO benefits performance. Understanding the link between...

...Robert Zacca; Mumin Dayan; Said Elbanna Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of conflict and intuition on explorative new products and performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The study proposes a theoretical model...

...Yahya N. Al Serhan; Craig C. Julian; Zafar Ahmed Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between time-based manufacturing competence (TBMC), time-based competitiveness, time-based manufacturing capability, and the performance of SMEs engaged in the steel minimill...

...). Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies the strategic positioning of SMEs (Lavie and Fiegenbaum, 2000, 2003) according to the importance that their managers give to internal and external SRP. Their influence on strategic types (Miles and Snow, 1978) and performance are analysed. This study...

...Emmanuel Selase Asamoah Purpose – This paper has three main objectives. The first objective examines the degree of interrelationship between the level of brand equity and the performance of SMEs, while the second objective examines the extent of the antecedents of brand equity (brand awareness...

... social networks improve organizational performance in small firms. Design/methodology/approach A sample of small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) owners employing less than 500 employees was drawn from the local directory of businesses in two Indian cities. A total of 297 SME owners participated...