European Business Review: Volume 36 Issue 2

The art and science of scholarly writing: framing symmetry of specificity beyond IMRAD

David Eriksson

The purpose of this paper is to provide scholars with a robust, easy-to-follow structural model for crafting compelling academic publications. Recognizing the diversity of…

Responding to the imprecisions of social enterprise identity: considering the role of participatory governance

Teresa Savall Morera, Marta Solórzano-García, Carmen Guzmán

This study aims to understand the importance of participatory governance in the identity of social enterprises (SEs). To this end, this paper provides a framework by means of the…

The effect of entrepreneurial leadership traits on corporate sustainable development and firm performance: a resource-based view

Anjum Razzaque, In Lee, George Mangalaraj

This study aims to empirically assess entrepreneurial leadership skills’ role in Corporate Sustainable Development (CSD) and firm performance (FP). This study considers five…

Salespeople’s sales performance skills in B2B of services firms – a cross-industrial study

Nils Høgevold, Rocio Rodriguez, Göran Svensson, Carmen Otero-Neira

This study aims to examine the role of salespeople’s skills in relative and absolute SP in business-to-business (B2B) settings of services firms. This conceptual logic reported in…

The determinants of export performance: perceived psychic distance and its antecedents

Fatma Demirağ, Aydın Kayabaşı

The Uppsala internationalization model is one of the widely accepted models for the development of exports. This model suggests that the explanation of relations between psychic…

Digital transformation of work: Swiss MSEs working from home behaviour during COVID-19 – pioneers leading the pack

Marc K. Peter, Lucia Wuersch, Alfred Wong, Alain Neher

The purpose of this study is to better understand technology adoption and working from home (WFH) behaviour of micro and small enterprises (MSE) with 4 to 49 employees during the…

Encouraging SMEs performance through entrepreneurial intentions, competencies, and leadership: serial mediation model

Mukaram Ali Khan, Kashif Rathore, Syed Sohaib Zubair, Aamna Tariq Mukaram, Kareem M. Selem

The study aims to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial leadership (EL), competencies (ECs) and intentions (EIs) on enterprise performance (EP) via entrepreneurial resilience…