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This paper seeks to further our understanding of how Moroccan ethnic minority women entrepreneurs in the Netherlands navigate and negotiate their entrepreneurial identities. Using postfeminism as an analytic device, we interrogate how gendered, ethnicised, and postfeminist discourses intersect in shaping the entrepreneurial identities of ethnic minority women entrepreneurs, drawing out the enabling and constraining factors...
As businesses become crucial to tackling the environmental, social, and economic challenges plaguing the world, there is still a lack of understanding about the specific role of entrepreneurs in poverty contexts to the sustainable development agenda. This paper addresses a central concern for entrepreneurship scholars and sustainable development advocates by revealing how women entrepreneurs are...
This paper questions the form of power attributed to migrant women entrepreneurs often emanating from their pre-established social positions, which limits their engagements to mere reaction and adaptation to dominant power holders (i.e. specific groups, contexts, structures). Drawing on the life stories of four migrant women entrepreneurs of Turkish origin in Sweden and the Netherlands,...
Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed through a deficit lens, emphasizing constraints such as financial limitations and weak institutions. While recent studies emphasize the potential of high-tech ventures in such settings, we still lack process-based accounts of how these ventures navigate these environments, particularly how their embeddedness unfold over time and how social, spatial...
The study explores how international enterprises navigate expansion in other markets simultaneously contributing to the regional development. Such international enterprises use digital platforms and disruptive technologies to transform their business models. Digital platform adoption and technological integration accelerate internationalization efforts and facilitate regional economic growth. A new theoretical framework is built upon international entrepreneurship orientation...
The everyday turn in entrepreneurship scholarship positions entrepreneurship as a social technology capable of driving regional change in turbulent times. We argue that the resilience of everyday entrepreneurs requires a reframing of firm growth. We explore this from the perspective of everyday artisan food entrepreneurs at farmers’ markets. Farmers’ markets as sites of grassroots resistance...
While religion is important to billions of people worldwide, research at its intersection with entrepreneurship is in its infancy. We add to this nascent stream through an abductive, qualitative study exploring how religious entrepreneurs address institutional voids to produce positive and/or negative outcomes through their ventures. Merging insights from structuration theory and religious agency from...
This study investigates how successors, by acting entrepreneurially, contribute to family firm transgenerational value creation. By focusing on the transgenerational value creation process, we investigate transgenerational entrepreneurship in family businesses under successor leadership. Employing a multiple case study approach, we analyse 15 Italian family firms, based on direct interviews, follow-ups, field observations, and approximately 300 historical...
Previous efforts to integrate culture and gender into a comprehensive theoretical framework for family support in entrepreneurship have fallen short. This study aims to clarify the influence of gender and culture on family support for women entrepreneurs in a patriarchal society. We use a qualitative approach, conducting 25 semi-structured interviews with Chinese women entrepreneurs who...
The growing subfield of religious entrepreneurship typically examines how faith impacts entrepreneurial outcomes, but much less work has examined the reverse. In this inductive study, we interview church planters, individuals engaged in forming a new religious organization that may or may not be connected to a broader Christian denomination, to understand how entrepreneurial action impacts...
This study explores how women entrepreneurs within a resource-constrained context of Ethiopia utilize spiritual resources and spiritual bricolage in their entrepreneurial endeavours. Drawing on 52 life-story interviews, we find that by engaging in spiritual bricolage, women entrepreneurs reconstruct the meanings of risk, resources, constraints, and legitimacy, thereby maintaining persistence in the face of adversity. We...
While the research on Indigenous entrepreneurship (IE) has gained momentum, Indigenous worldviews, a key construct in understanding the distinctiveness of Indigenous people and their communities, remain underexplored. Drawing on narrative inquiry and graphic elicitation technique, this article examines how Indigenous worldviews shape and are shaped by the entrepreneurial journeys among urban Mapuche entrepreneurs from Chile....
Entrepreneurial ecosystem research increasingly recognizes the importance of sub-ecosystems, yet their dynamics in contexts of precarity remain underexplored. This article introduces the concept of precarious entrepreneurial sub-ecosystems and examines how entrepreneurship unfolds under conditions of resource scarcity and social vulnerability in Montpellier, France. By mobilizing a complex adaptive systems perspective, we develop a multilevel model...
The intersectional nature of gender-based violence (GBV) makes it unlikely that survivors can escape the socio-economic precarity that perpetuates this social ill. Current conceptualizations of the entrepreneurial process do not sufficiently account for the material constraints GBV survivors face in developing countries and/or in contexts of poverty, and as such, may not fully grasp their...
This article examines gendered household dynamics and the organization of labour in Entrepreneurial Households (EHs), using Glucksumann’s Total Social Organization of Labour theory (TSOL). It challenges the perception of EHs as neutral spaces and argues that analysing households provides a more nuanced understanding of the gendered dynamics in households where a member is formally self-employed...
Our study explores the interplay between the Big Five Personality Traits (B5-PT) and Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) among home and international entrepreneurs in the Middle East, focusing on Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Utilizing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we investigate how different combinations of personality traits influence EO in distinct entrepreneurial contexts....
This paper improves our understanding of how the teaching of entrepreneurial competencies is conceived in secondary school and how this relates to students’ employability. We conducted a qualitative investigation involving six French schools in the vocational training system preceding the university. From our interviews with alumni, teachers, pedagogical experts, school managers, and business owners, we...
This editorial examines entrepreneurship in rural areas, advocating for renewed interest due to global transformations, such as climate change and inequality, that challenge the traditional focus on urban-led economic growth. This article highlights the essential role of rural entrepreneurship in promoting sustainability, creating social value, and building resilience, thereby extending the field beyond mere economic...
In this article, we examine the emerging role of women entrepreneurs within changing socio-cultural institutions. The current literature presents limited insight on the processual dynamics of entrepreneurship among socio-cultural change, and so we adopt an inductive theory-building approach, drawing on the concept of institutional entrepreneurship. From this, we see the interaction of women’s entrepreneurial practices...
Venture growth creates tensions that, in turn, cause entrepreneurial identities (EI) to evolve as entrepreneurs have to engage with new forms of strategic thinking in order to scale up. However, little is known about how these tensions inform emergent entrepreneurial identity work and its consequences, as entrepreneurs reorganize ventures for growth. We explore this issue...
This article offers a comprehensive review of the literature on entrepreneurialism, framing it as a pervasive ideology, not merely an extension of neoliberalism. While often seen as a hyper-individualistic ethos, we show that entrepreneurialism also functions as a model for social action, organizing collective behaviour, legitimizing institutional norms, and framing political choices. Although entrepreneurialism has...
This paper theorizes impact entrepreneurship (IE) in relation to place by examining dynamics at the individual, community, and organizational levels. While existing IE literature emphasizes entrepreneurship aimed at addressing grand challenges, it often adopts an aggregate view that overlooks how locally embedded entrepreneurs access and mobilize social and economic resources. We introduce a novel, multidimensional...
Multi-faceted approaches are mandatory to advance entrepreneurship research. This is especially true when scholars investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on local development. In this case, scholars usually rely on the nexus ‘entrepreneurial profile/context’. In line with the above and the principles of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), a European policy aiming to...
This study investigates differences in entrepreneurial networking between entrepreneurs across migrant statuses (native-born, first-generation, and second-generation), focusing on how societal modes of incorporation – the policies and cultural attitudes that shape how newcomers integrate into a host country – influence these networks. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey of 15,123 entrepreneurs across...
In this article, we study 25 Mapuche entrepreneurs from Chile, exploring how their deep spiritual beliefs and values influence their entrepreneurial orientation, decision-making processes, and business results. Using qualitative methods, we found an ancestral calling that summoned Indigenous individuals to revitalize a distant past rather than pursue opportunities in the proximal future, thus distinguishing their...
