Journal of Business Venturing

1985 - 2025

Current editor(s): S. Venkataraman

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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

Volume 39, issue 6, 2024

Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions

Björn C. Mitzinneck, Jana Coenen, Florian Noseleit and Christian Rupietta

Labor market reform as an external enabler of high-growth entrepreneurship: A multi-level institutional contingency perspective

Daniel L. Bennett, Gary Wagner and Michael Araki

Feeding the hype cycle: Entrepreneurial swagger, passion, and inflated expectations

Kevin Heupel, Jorge Arteaga Fonseca, Matthew Rutherford and Bryan Edwards

Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption

Daniel S. Andrews, Blake Mathias, Arun Kumaraswamy and Andreas P.J. Schotter

Journal of business venturing 2023 year in review: The year of the whole-person entrepreneur

Angelique Slade Shantz and Jeffery S. McMullen

Quasipractice: How the entrepreneurship educator develops entrepreneurial practice expertise

Raj K. Shankar and Andrew C. Corbett

Navigating the temporal commitments of entrepreneurial hype: Insights from entrepreneur and backer interactions in crowdfunded ventures

Matthew S. Wood, Sean M. Dwyer and David J. Scheaf

Volume 39, issue 5, 2024

The Internet and the gender gap in entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

Xiaoyan Sun, Waverly Ding and Xuanli Xie

Aging and entrepreneurs' emotional exhaustion: The role of entrepreneurial strategy, psychological capital, and felt age gap

Ewald Kibler, Charlotta Sirén, Daniela Maresch, Virva Salmivaara and Matthias Fink

Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda

Nicole Coviello, Erkko Autio, Satish Nambisan, Holger Patzelt and Llewellyn D.W. Thomas

Linking anxiety to passion: Emotion regulation and entrepreneurs' pitch performance

Lily Yuxuan Zhu, Maia J Young and Christopher W. Bauman

Volume 39, issue 4, 2024

Non-probabilistic reasoning in navigating entrepreneurial uncertainty: A psychology of religious faith lens

Robert J. Pidduck, David M. Townsend and Lowell W. Busenitz

The gendered effect of populism on innovation

Jintong Tang, Wenping Ye, Mingzhi Hu, Stephen X. Zhang and Shaji A. Khan

The effect of regime change on entrepreneurship: A real options approach with evidence from US gubernatorial elections

David S. Lucas

“I can't get it out of my mind” - Why, how, and when crisis rumination leads entrepreneurs to act and pivot during crises

Bach Nguyen, Hai-Anh Tran, Ute Stephan, Ha Nguyen Van and Pham Thi Hoang Anh

Legitimate incongruity: Strategic positioning within hybrid categories

Kostas Alexiou, Jennifer Wiggins and Md Fourkan

To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship

Jody Delichte, E. Erin Powell, Ralph Hamann and Ted Baker

A framework for investigating new firm entry: The (limited) overlap between informal-formal and necessity-opportunity entrepreneurship

Saul Estrin, Maribel Guerrero and Tomasz Mickiewicz

Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams

Simon Taggar, Anne Domurath and Nicole Coviello

Exploring the microfoundations of hybridity: A judgment-based approach

Carmen-Elena Dorobat, Matthew McCaffrey and Mihai Vladimir Topan

Entrepreneurial hustle: Scale development and validation

Devin Burnell, Emily Neubert, Greg Fisher, Matthew R. Marvel, Regan Stevenson and Donald F. Kuratko

The entrepreneurship of marginalized groups and compatibility between the market and emancipation

Alexander C. Lewis and Rowena C. Crabbe

The needle of charisma and the threads of trust: Advancing effectuation theory's crazy quilt principle

Tanurima Dutta and Mark D. Packard

Volume 39, issue 3, 2024

The signaling value of legal form in entrepreneurial debt financing

Felix Bracht, Jeroen Mahieu and Steven Vanhaverbeke

Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding

Benedikt David Christian Seigner, Aaron F. McKenny and David K. Reetz

The effects of firm-specific incentives (stock options) on mobility and employee entrepreneurship

Vilma Chila and Shivaram Devarakonda

Parental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood

Mateja Andric, Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh, Thomas Zellweger and Isabella Hatak

The value of a reputation for sustaining commitment in interfirm relationships: The inclusion of corporate venture capitalists in investment syndicates

Joseph J. Cabral, M.V. Shyam Kumar and Haemin Dennis Park

Volume 39, issue 2, 2024

Sight unseen: The visibility paradox of entrepreneurship in an informal economy

Robert Nason, Siddharth Vedula, Joel Bothello, Sophie Bacq and Andrew Charman

Growing pains in scale-ups: How scaling affects new venture employee burnout and job satisfaction

Mohamed Genedy, Karin Hellerstedt, Lucia Naldi and Johan Wiklund

Adapting a collective will and a way during a civil war: The persistence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem as an architecture of hope

Trenton Alma Williams and Ramzi Fathallah

Flip the tweet – the two-sided coin of entrepreneurial empathy and its ambiguous influence on new product development

Konstantin Kurz, Carolin Bock and Leonard Hanschur

When a crisis hits: An examination of the impact of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic on financing for women entrepreneurs

Wei Yu, Jipeng Fei, Grace Peng and James Bort

Volume 39, issue 1, 2024

From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding

Kazem Mochkabadi, Simon Kleinert, Diemo Urbig and Christine Volkmann

Exploring the relative efficacy of ‘within-logic contrasting’ and ‘cross-logic analogizing’ framing tactics for adopting new entrepreneurial practices in contexts of poverty

Angelique Slade Shantz, Charlene Zietsma, Geoffrey M. Kistruck and Luciano Barin Cruz

Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need

Alessia Argiolas, Hans Rawhouser and Alisa Sydow

A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures

Giuseppe Criaco and Lucia Naldi

Doing the right things at the right times: The role of temporal enactment in venture outcome attainment

Trey Lewis, Diana M. Hechavarría, David W. Williams and Melissa S. Cardon

Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs

Deepak Somaya and Jingya You

Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms

Kaushik Gala, Andreas Schwab and Brandon A. Mueller

What is scaling?

Sarah Bohan, Esther Tippmann, Jonathan Levie, Josephine Igoe and Blake Bowers

A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action

Jeffery S. McMullen, Jason R. Fitzsimmons, Khyati Shetty and Stratos Ramoglou

Climate impact, institutional context, and national climate change adaptation IP protection rates

Hyungseok Yoon, Peter Tashman, Mirko H. Benischke, Jonathan Doh and Namil Kim

United we stand? Organizational groups and spinoff mortality in the context of academic entrepreneurship

Aleksios Gotsopoulos and Konstantinos Pitsakis

Just a number? Using artificial intelligence to explore perceived founder age in entrepreneurial fundraising

Michael J. Matthews, Aaron H. Anglin, Will Drover and Marcus T. Wolfe

ESG and crowdfunding platforms

Douglas Cumming, Michele Meoli, Alice Rossi and Silvio Vismara

Interorganizational triads for foreign-market entry: Partnerships among Western, bridge-economy, and local VCs in Mainland China

Jing Zhang, Wei Zhang and Andreas Schwab

No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding

Jeffrey A. Chandler, Aaron H. Anglin, Fizza Kanwal and Jeremy C. Short

Event-based entrepreneurship

Greg Fisher, Matthew A. Josefy and Emily Neubert

Breaking barriers or maintaining status quo? Female representation in decision-making group of venture capital firms and the funding of woman-led businesses

Lei Xu, Amy Y. Ou, Haemin Dennis Park and Han Jiang