... of entrepreneurial SMEs was employed using LISREL to determine the nature of the underlying relationships among the study constructs. Findings The findings show that adopting e-commerce significantly improves SMEs' performance. The study also found that trust effectively mediates the relationship between e...

...Alexandros Psychogios; Leslie T.T. Szamosi; Rea Prouska; Dritjon Gruda Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand how managers in entrepreneurial small businesses (ESBs) deal with exogenous (macro) crises, particularly in relation to the breakdown of intra- and inter-stakeholder trust...

...Kingsley Obi Omeihe; Amon Simba; David Rae; Veronika Gustafsson; Mohammad Saud Khan Purpose The purpose of this article is to develop new insights into the interplay between trust, indigenous institutions and weak/dysfunctional formal institutions using the Nigerian context – a developing country...

.../successor on internal succession. Findings It was discovered that intention of founder/incumbent to hand over to an internal successor is predominantly determined by attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control and cognitive dimension of the social capital. Trust does not influence...

...Swati Panda; Shridhar Dash Purpose – Maintaining cooperation and avoiding opportunism is essential for a healthy venture capitalist (VC) – entrepreneur relationship. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore the role of control and trust for developing a cooperative VC-entrepreneur...

... – thereby highlighting the need to enhance academic guidelines on plagiarism. Michele O'Dwyer can be contacted at: michele.odwyer@ul.ie Entrepreneurialism Education Dishonesty Trust Research into entrepreneurship education in recent years has largely focused on an exploration...

... of security. Research limitations/implications This study did not provide any evidence to support the necessity for small enterprises to incur the added costs in terms of money and time required to obtain a third‐party seal. Rather the results suggest small enterprises may increase consumer trust more...

.... The purpose of this paper is to explore how knowledge is disseminated in personal business networks and how this is used in a very traditional industry. Design/methodology/approach A synthesis of three interrelated concepts, those of knowledge, social network structure and trust in relationships, provides...

...Khurram J. Sharif; Stavros P. Kalafatis; Phillip Samouel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic examination of the importance of trust‐developing constructs and the impact of trust on long‐term orientation within the small and medium‐sized enterprises (SME) domain. Design...

... of a larger vs a smaller firm size for SME network participation is discussed. Drawing from this, it seems reasonable that the likelihood of pursuing corporate entrepreneurship is enhanced more if the focal firm has trust for its colleagues in the SME network when tackling the challenges associated...

..., by means of incorporating more employees in development work. The importance of trust and dialogue will be highlighted as well as the significance of both explicit and tacit knowledge. Finally, attention will be drawn to this network structure as a form of inter‐organisational empowerment of employees...

... to their networks; the time which the networks have taken to nurture and develop; the trust engendered by the participants both for the networks as an entity and for the participants; the association of reputation and pride in the network; and the need to reflect in order to make use of network information. © MCB...

... is helped and who is harmed by these relationships. The relationships are explored before and after start‐up to trace the chains of causality which result in the helping and harming consequences for the businesses and individuals. Trust between the owner‐managers and other individuals is found...