The paper analyses the importance of collaboration and networks in international entrepreneurship by distinguishing entrepreneurial small and medium firms (SMEs). SMEs, which characterized by fast internationalisation of their activity from the very beginning of the establishment despite limited...

Debate in management research on the status of the opportunity construct is now more than a decade old. We argue that the debate has led to little additional insight in entrepreneurship and we develop the case for abandoning the construct altogether. Uncertainty is central to entrepreneurship...

Entrepreneurial antecedents have been a subject of investigation for many decades. While entrepreneurial characteristics and personality traits have been explored in-depth, cultural contexts have gained less attention. The current study explores how the tension between different community values...

This paper studies how prior professional connections among founding employees predict a new firm's short and medium term success. We apply three employment network measures to a large employer-employee matched Brazilian panel dataset, to find that network structures are strongly predictive of...

This study investigates the effects of human capital, social capital and their interaction on the performance of 1,398 Vietnamese new-born firms. Operating profit is used as the measure of success. Human capital is captured by individual-level professional education, start-up experience, and...

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...

The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...

A comprehensive guide to digital entrepreneurship, bridging academic research and industry practice. Morabito provides a strategic overview of the main challenges and trends related to digital entrepreneurship, structured in three parts. Part I focuses on strategy and management issues, guiding...

"Digitalization has been a driver of the transformation of business and society, leading to a radical change in the idea and the shape of what is work, what are organizations, and how value can be captured and created. One of the key issues of digitalization has been its capacity to enforce new...