Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 28 Issue 4

Entrepreneurs' emotional intelligence as a factor explaining entrepreneurial psychological ownership and high-tech start-up growth

Ronit Yitshaki

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in explaining high-tech entrepreneurs' psychological ownership (PO) and, in turn, how their PO…

Dealing with surprise attacks: decomposing ERM as a dynamic capability to handle crises

Vishnu Chandar Venkatesh, Meeta Dasgupta, Anupama Prashar, Torben Juul Andersen

Turbulent hypercompetitive market conditions make small and medium enterprises (SMEs) vulnerable to abrupt crises caused by unexpected competitor moves. In these situations…

Adopting Islamic microfinance as a mechanism of financing small and medium enterprises in Uganda

Ssemambo Hussein Kakembo, Muhamad Abduh, Pg Md Hasnol Alwee Pg Hj Md Salleh

Despite the fact that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in strengthening the financial sector within developing and emerging economies through providing…

Estimating the capital assets of Laotian entrepreneurial families to compete in the garment industry

Hanvedes Daovisan, Thanapauge Chamaratana

The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has a socialist transition economy with a high growth rate of entrepreneurial families compared to other member states of the…

Evolving students' conceptions about responsible entrepreneurship: a classroom experiment

Matthias Pepin, Luc K. Audebrand, Maripier Tremblay, Ndèye Binta Keita

Entrepreneurship education scholarship has been recently challenged to look at what goes on inside the entrepreneurship classroom to assess what students are really learning…

Entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial network, government business support and SMEs performance. The moderating role of the external environment

Buba Musa Pulka, Azahari Ramli, Armanurah Mohamad

The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating influence of the external environment on the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial orientation…

Interdependent HRM practices as active responses to paradox in Finnish growth enterprises

Sara Lindström, Minna Janhonen

By adopting a paradox lens, the purpose of this study is to explore paradoxes in relation to work organization, recruitment and competence development in growth-oriented companies.

Growth aspirations in SMEs: managerial determinants and organizational outcomes

Ann Elida Eide, Øystein Moen, Tage Koed Madsen, Mohammad Javadinia Azari

The main purpose of this study is to increase the scholarly understanding of managerial growth aspirations in small firms. Research has shown that managers' aspirations are…