Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to devise recommendations for firms to formulate modes of value capture for their product innovations, ex ante . More specifically, the research question is: how can innovators try to maximize, ex ante , the appropriation of the rent they can derive from...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand parenting stress of entrepreneurs and to attempt to extend the empirical evidence on the predictors and consequences of parenting stress for entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach: This study draws on data from the Household, Income and...

Purpose: Social support has been identified as a valuable resource that could help entrepreneurs maintain goal directness in their endeavours and increase their life satisfaction. However, to date, scant research has examined the effect of perceived social support on life satisfaction during...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show how self-regulation influences the relationship between nascent entrepreneurial exploitation activities, firm birth and firm abandonment. Design/methodology/approach: This study draws from a unique longitudinal dataset of 181 nascent entrepreneurs...