Venture growth creates tensions that, in turn, cause entrepreneurial identities (EI) to evolve as entrepreneurs have to engage with new forms of strategic thinking in order to scale up. However, little is known about how these tensions inform emergent entrepreneurial identity work and its consequences, as entrepreneurs reorganize ventures for growth. We explore this issue...

This article offers a comprehensive review of the literature on entrepreneurialism, framing it as a pervasive ideology, not merely an extension of neoliberalism. While often seen as a hyper-individualistic ethos, we show that entrepreneurialism also functions as a model for social action, organizing collective behaviour, legitimizing institutional norms, and framing political choices. Although entrepreneurialism has...

This paper theorizes impact entrepreneurship (IE) in relation to place by examining dynamics at the individual, community, and organizational levels. While existing IE literature emphasizes entrepreneurship aimed at addressing grand challenges, it often adopts an aggregate view that overlooks how locally embedded entrepreneurs access and mobilize social and economic resources. We introduce a novel, multidimensional...

Multi-faceted approaches are mandatory to advance entrepreneurship research. This is especially true when scholars investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on local development. In this case, scholars usually rely on the nexus ‘entrepreneurial profile/context’. In line with the above and the principles of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), a European policy aiming to...

This study investigates differences in entrepreneurial networking between entrepreneurs across migrant statuses (native-born, first-generation, and second-generation), focusing on how societal modes of incorporation – the policies and cultural attitudes that shape how newcomers integrate into a host country – influence these networks. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey of 15,123 entrepreneurs across...

In this article, we study 25 Mapuche entrepreneurs from Chile, exploring how their deep spiritual beliefs and values influence their entrepreneurial orientation, decision-making processes, and business results. Using qualitative methods, we found an ancestral calling that summoned Indigenous individuals to revitalize a distant past rather than pursue opportunities in the proximal future, thus distinguishing their...

This conceptual paper offers a research agenda in examining the role of standards for innovation in high-tech SMEs’ business models from a capability perspective. This paper aims to address the research question, how are SMEs using standards in a new environment of rapidly emerging technologies to produce innovations and what are the new directions for...

This study investigates three pivotal factors influencing workers’ shift towards knowledge-based self-employment: the facilitation effect of telework, age-related modifications to this effect, and geographic influences, drawing from Self-Determination Theory, Procedural Utility, and the Job Demands-Resources Model. Pre- and post-pandemic teleworkers are categorized into four groups based on telework history: Never Teleworked, Newly Teleworked, Used to...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) are changing as funding for traditional support structures is reduced and large corporations are running corporate accelerators (CAs). These new support organizations are struggling to survive and address challenges of legitimacy. However, research on EEs has not yet investigated the conditions of their existence from an ecosystemic perspective. Drawing on neoinstitutional theory...

The aim of this article is to show how student entrepreneurs construct their social capital within the sub-ecosystem of student entrepreneurship. We conducted a single case study on the professional network of a cohort of students participating in an entrepreneurship programme in the city of Strasbourg in France. Analysis of their professional networks for their...