Journal of Business Venturing

1985 - 2025

Current editor(s): S. Venkataraman

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Volume 40, issue 6, 2025

Cognitive origins of entrepreneurial action: How venture-specific knowledge drives financial investments

Sung Min Kim and Uğur Uygur

Measuring entrepreneurs' use of effectuation as heuristics: Development and validation of a situational judgment test (SJT) for effectuation

Sonia Koller, Gorkan Ahmetoglu and Ute Stephan

The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia's convict history

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Simon Chang, Russell Smyth and Trong-Anh Trinh

Volume 40, issue 5, 2025

Developing the workforce: Exploring the impact of female directors on male-led new ventures

Zhiyan Wu and Lucia Naldi

Not what you expected to see? Obesity stereotypes, expectancy violations, and angel investment decisions

Torben Antretter, Henrik Wesemann Lekkas, Djordje Djokovic, Vangelis Souitaris and Joakim Wincent

The entrepreneurial pitching process: A systematic review using topic modeling and future research agenda

Jordan J. McSweeney, Kevin T. McSweeney, Thomas H. Allison and Aaron H. Anglin

Big things from small beginnings: Creating and scaling community-based opportunities for sustainable small and local businesses

Man Yang, Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes and Joakim Wincent

Director turnover in new venture boards: From homophilous to resource-contingent processes

Chanchal Balachandran and Karl Wennberg

Financial inclusion and low-income women's new venture initiation: A Field experiment

Abu Zafar M. Shahriar, Sarah R. Chase and Dean Shepherd

Meaningful venturing: Examining how entrepreneurs generate meaning in life

Stella Seyb, Dean A. Shepherd and Sally Maitlis

Volume 40, issue 4, 2025

Balancing power: The role of independent directors on venture boards

Yajing Li and Sam Garg

Journal of Business Venturing 2024 year in review: The year of exercising entrepreneurial agency in response to crises

Oana Branzei, Jeffery S. McMullen, Scott L. Newbert and Christian Schwens

The rise and fall of the girlboss: Gender, social expectations and entrepreneurial hype

Janice Byrne and Antonio Paco Giuliani

From green to growth: The effect of Go Green on entrepreneurial growth aspirations

Xiaolong Shui, Julia Korosteleva and Bach Nguyen

Ethnic fractionalization and informal entrepreneurship: An institutional logics perspective

Mark R. Mallon and Stav Fainshmidt

Are entrepreneurs more upwardly mobile?

Matthew Lindquist and Theodor Vladasel

The expectations game: The contingent value of hype as a rhetorical strategy in resource mobilization processes among AI startups

Judy Rady, David Townsend, Rick Hunt and Joseph Simpson

Corporate venture capital and the boundaries of the firm11For comments and suggestions, I thank Jan Bena (discussant), Thomas Chemmanur, Thomas Hellmann (discussant), Joel Houston, Jongsub Lee, Josh Lerner, Jiasun Li, Tse-Chun Lin, Liangfei Qiu, Song Ma (discussant), Jay Ritter, David Robinson, Merih Sevilir (discussant), Yuehua Tang, Xuan Tian, Tieying Yu, participants at the 2019 Georgia State University - Review of Financial Studies FinTech Conference, the 2018 Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (CFEA), Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting (NFA), Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance Conference, Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium, and Oxford Finance Job Market Workshop. Special thanks to the UF Alumni Doctoral Support Fund for providing financial assistance to facilitate access to the PitchBook data. All remaining errors are my own

Hongyu Shan

Immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States: Intersectionality as a blessing and a curse

Punit Arora, Priya Nagaraj, Marta Bengoa and Debmalya Mukherjee

The entrepreneurship fountain of youth: Younger management ranks generate more entrepreneurs

Rui Agostinho, Rui Baptista, Jolanda Hessels, Hugo Castro-Silva and Peter van der Zwan

Social class origin and entrepreneurship: An integrative review and research agenda

Leif Brändle, Anna-Lena Rönnert, Kristie J.N. Moergen and Eric Yanfei Zhao

Legitimacy perceptions amid institutional pluralism: How hype over decoupled practices influences entrepreneurial ventures

April J. Spivack, Tom Lahti, Thommie Burström and Joakim Wincent

When hype collides with morality: How entrepreneurial framing affects the behavior and legitimacy of hyped ventures

Christian E. Hampel and Elena Dalpiaz

Waves and rips: Abalone, entrepreneurial variants, and community functioning

Sarah R. Chase and Dean A. Shepherd

Emancipatory entrepreneurship in postcolonial economies: The clash of institutional systems in the Kejetia marketplace

Arielle Newman, Alexander Lewis and Ryan Coles

Owner-management, board governance and responses to performance feedback in private firms

Jeroen Neckebrouck and William S. Schulze

Bold, broad, rigorous, and…relevant? Designing entrepreneurship research for translation

Theodore L. Waldron, Jeffery S. McMullen, Scott L. Newbert, G. Tyge Payne and Jeffrey G. York

Living healthily to 120: Implications for entrepreneurship

Marco van Gelderen

Volume 40, issue 3, 2025

Time to say goodbye? The role of SBIR funding, VC rounds, and initial alliance for director exit in new ventures

Vilma Chila and Koen van den Oever

Outside board director experience and the growth of new ventures

Tatevik Harutyunyan, Bram Timmermans and Lars Frederiksen

Volume 40, issue 2, 2025

Directors in new technology-based ventures: An empirical inquiry

Sam Garg, Michael Howard and Emily Cox Pahnke

Hype: Marker and maker of entrepreneurial culture

R. Daniel Wadhwani and Christina Lubinski

Reaching out or going it alone? How birth order shapes networking behavior and entrepreneurial action in the face of obstacles

Julia M. Kensbock

Atypical entrepreneurs in the venture idea elaboration phase

Saggi Nevo

The leisure paradox for entrepreneurs: A neo-institutional theory perspective of disclosing leisure activities in crowdfunding pitches

Jacob A. Waddingham, Jeffrey A. Chandler, Katherine C. Alexander, Sana Zafar and Aaron Anglin

Angel funding and entrepreneurs' well-being: The mediating role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness

Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Patrick Sven Gaßmann, Nele McElvany and Tessa Christina Flatten

Regulatory institutions and cross-country differences in high-growth entrepreneurship rates: A configurational approach

Thomas Standaert, Veroniek Collewaert and Tom Vanacker

How environmental awareness and concern affect environmental entrepreneurial intent

Yasmin O. Schwegler and Jeffrey S. Petty

Fear the loss or welcome the gains? How stock options influence CEO risk-taking in corporate cleantech investments

David Bendig, Colin Schulz, Maximilian Möhwald and Patrick Pollok

Coordination, sensemaking, and idea work: How founding teams pivot their venture ideas

Eva Weissenböck, Nicola Breugst and Anna Brattström

Volume 40, issue 1, 2025

Legitimately distinct entrepreneurial stories in evolving market categories

Shannon Younger, Jonathan Preedom and Chad Navis

Innovation at the interface: A configurational approach to corporate venture capital

Magnus Schückes, Benedikt Unger, Tobias Gutmann and Gerwin Fels

Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs

Laura D'Oria, David J. Scheaf, Timothy L. Michaelis and Michael P. Lerman

The body as a cultural resource for entrepreneurs in stigmatized settings: The case of sex toys by women for women

Neva Bojovic, Raghu Garud and Mohammed Cheded

Financing decentralized digital platform growth: The role of crypto funds in blockchain-based startups

Douglas Cumming, Wolfgang Drobetz, Paul P. Momtaz and Niclas Schermann

A listening model of venture growth: entrepreneurs' listening abilities and ventures' listening capabilities

Dean A. Shepherd and Jeffrey M. Pollack

Echoes of the past: The long-lasting effects of entrepreneurs' generational imprints on value-creation models

Ileana Maldonado-Bautista, Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, Annaleena Parhankangas and Karen Watkins

Funding-source-induced bias: How social ties influence entrepreneurs' anticipated guilt and risk-taking preferences

Emily Neubert, Greg Fisher, Donald F. Kuratko and Regan Stevenson

Effect of venture capital investment horizon on new product development: Evidence from the medical device sector

Moonsik Shin, Joonhyung Bae and Umit Ozmel

Amplifying angels: Evidence from the INVEST program

Marius Berger and Sandra Gottschalk

False signaling by platform team members and post-campaign venture outcomes: Evidence from an equity crowdfunding platform

Virginie Mataigne, Michele Meoli, Tom Vanacker and Silvio Vismara

Rethinking entrepreneurship in causally entangled crises: A poly-crisis perspective

Kim Klyver and Jeffery S. McMullen