Purpose: Mentoring relationships have been proposed as a potential intervention to alleviate gender disparities in scholarly output. Yet, previous research has not provided a systematic understanding of the relationship between mentoring and scholarly output. The authors propose that...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of the growth performance of top African American‐owned employer firms when compared with their White counterparts. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses longitudinal, revenue data from a sample of the largest African...

Purpose: By integrating the resource management perspective and the optimal distinctiveness perspective, the purpose of this paper is to explain how firms configure their managerial ties and competences to identify entrepreneurial opportunities. Design/methodology/approach: Using survey data...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the mediating role of founders/managers’ logic of control in transforming experiential knowledge and human capital into successful international performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises. Design/methodology/approach: Using a quantitative...

Purpose – Existing literature suggests that the need for a conducive environment is crucial in developing entrepreneurship. Previous research on this trend has focused on what constitutes a munificent environment and how environmental conditions stimulate an entrepreneur's intentionality to...

Purpose Regarding research on authenticity perception, this paper aims to pose the following questions: In different cultural regions, what are the different authenticity elements of old towns from a tourist perspective? What is the difference in authenticity perception in different cultural...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the business model from a value network perspective and to investigate how top managers' individual characteristics contribute to business model innovation. Design/methodology/approach – On the basis of upper echelons theory and...