International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 25 Issue 2

The impact of autonomy on the relationship between mentoring and entrepreneurial intentions among youth in Germany, Kenya, and Uganda

Martin Mabunda Baluku, Matagi Leonsio, Edward Bantu, Kathleen Otto

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how autonomy, moderated by employment status, impacts the relationship between entrepreneurial mentoring (EM) and entrepreneurial…

Entrepreneurs’ individual-level resources and social value creation goals: The moderating role of cultural context

Steven A. Brieger, Dirk De Clercq

The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of how the interplay of individual-level resources and culture affects entrepreneurs’ propensity to adopt social…

Break-out strategies of Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Australia

Yurong Wang, James Warn

The purpose of this paper is to examine how Chinese immigrant businesses in Australia were able to shift from low return start-up businesses and move to more competitive business…

The right word for the right crowd: an attempt to recognize the influence of emotions

Amélie Wuillaume, Amélie Jacquemin, Frank Janssen

The purpose of this paper is to propose a better understanding of how entrepreneurial narrative influences resource acquisition in the fundraising context.

Entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intention: do entrepreneurial creativity and education matter?

Yasir Shahab, Ye Chengang, Angel David Arbizu, Muhammad Jamal Haider

The purpose of this paper is to present a “moderated-mediation model” covering the nexus between entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) by…

Entrepreneurial architecture in UK universities: still a work in progress?

Lynn M. Martin, Izzy Warren-Smith, Gemma Lord

UK higher education has faced an unprecedented period of change due to multiple UK governmental policies over a short period – coupled with demographic change and the vote to…

Entrepreneurial women’s networks: the case of D’Uva – Portugal wine girls

Gina Santos, Carla Susana Marques, Vanessa Ratten

The purpose of this paper is to assess women winemakers’ motivations for and objectives in creating a formal, horizontal, and inter-organizational network in Portugal. To this…

The impact of abstract thinking on entrepreneurial intentions

Joshua D. Bazzy, Adam R. Smith, Teresa Harrison

The purpose of this paper is to test a theoretical model examining the potential impact of abstract thinking on entrepreneurial intentions (EI). The impact of perceived…

Shock Therapy and Entrepreneurial Flare #Brexit

Nigel Culkin, Richard Simmons

Much has been written about trade deal opportunities after Brexit (e.g. Minford et al., 2017; Singham and Tylecote, 2018) but much less about envisaged “supply side mechanisms”…

Digital entrepreneurship: A research agenda on new business models for the twenty-first century

Sascha Kraus, Carolin Palmer, Norbert Kailer, Friedrich Lukas Kallinger, Jonathan Spitzer

Digital entrepreneurship is of high topicality as technological developments and advances in infrastructure create various opportunities for entrepreneurs. Society’s great…

What does a start-up need to grow? An empirical approach for Italian innovative start-ups

Niccolò Innocenti, Vincenzo Zampi

The purpose 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.

An axiological measure of entrepreneurial cognition

Clifford G. Hurst

The purpose of this paper is to expand the recent lines of inquiry into entrepreneurial cognition by focusing on the structure of values as an important aspect of cognition. Value…