Journal of Business Venturing

1985 - 2026

Current editor(s): S. Venkataraman

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Volume 41, issue 5, 2026

Help or hindrance? Husbands' influence on women entrepreneurs' business success in Sub-Saharan Africa: A latent profile analysis

Kathrin Wolf, Mona Hafner, Jiarui Lily Zhou and Michael Frese

Compassion and passion: Exploring beneficiary wealth destruction in social entrepreneurship

Anne-Sophie Sabbatucci, Sophie Bacq and Frank Janssen

A romantic penalty? Female entrepreneurship and relationship initiation in online dating

Di Tong, Xiumei Li and Haemin Dennis Park

A theoretical analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial actions: A proposed model

Mark T. Schenkel, Rodney R. D'Souza, Jeffrey S. Hornsby, Donald S. Siegel and Maribel Guerrero

Skin lightening: The process of exploiting colorism-based opportunities

Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Sarah Chase and Joakim Wincent

Values work in early-stage venturing: How entrepreneurs make sustainability commitments actionable

Matthias Pepin, Luc K. Audebrand, Maripier Tremblay and Karine Laperrière

Aspirations, performance feedback, and informal entrepreneurs' decision to formalize

Selorm Agbleze and Marcus M. Larsen

The long shadow of adolescent friendships: How early peer relationships predict entrepreneurial careers

Seok-Woo Kwon, Kamil Sicinski and Shaghayegh Mohammadi

Navigating moral boundaries: How entrepreneurs manage stigma premiums in morally contested markets

Aureliu Sindila, Nicolai J. Foss and Xueyong Zhan

Funding for social impact or business success: The role of emotional variety in crowdfunded microlending

Yicheng Zhang, Ya Zhou, Chenxi Fu and Yi Liu

Migrating to a golden opportunity: The gold rush and the roots of persistence of interregional differences in entrepreneurship

Michael Stuetzer, Michael Wyrwich, Abel Brodeur, Martin Obschonka, David B. Audretsch, Peter J. Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling

Chronos meets Kairos: The strategic enactment of time in corporate entrepreneurship

Aracely Soto-Simeone

Civic listening: A social capital perspective on civic wealth creation

Valentin Held and Guillermo Casasnovas

Volume 41, issue 4, 2026

Not me, not yet, not anymore: Founder identity and entrepreneurial disidentification

Aviel Cogan and Blake Mathias

Venture boards: Knowns and unknowns

Bart Clarysse, Johan Bruneel, Carina Lomberg, Timur Uman, Thomas J. Howard and Nicola Breugst

Founders for hire? The role of venture studios in breaking the individual-opportunity nexus

Constanze Coelsch-Foisner, Laurens Vandeweghe, Bart Clarysse and Fiona Murray

Attitudes toward ambiguity among self-employed and incorporated entrepreneurs

Thomas Åstebro, Frank Fossen and Cédric Gutierrez

Unchained from land: Property rights reforms and farmers' entrepreneurship in an emerging economy

Xueru Yang, Xiaoke Shi and Kun Liu

Activating civic wealth creation in devitalized communities: The role of sense of place

Rebecca Franklin and Natalie Slawinski

Stories under scrutiny: How entrepreneurs and investors negotiate entrepreneurial narratives in interactional exchanges during investment pitches

Jean S. Clarke and Nick Llewellyn

Beyond “uncertainty”: How distinct types of perceived uncertainties catalyze or paralyze firm innovation

Renfei Gao, Stephen X. Zhang and Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi

Volume 41, issue 3, 2026

Momentum through a mantra: How a new architect legitimizes a nascent entrepreneurial ecosystem

Brian J. Bergman and Jeffery S. McMullen

Emancipatory entrepreneurship by a stigmatized social group

Chang Lu, Rongrong Zhang and Trish Reay

The power of consumer solidarity framing in scaling up social impact

Yuliya Snihur, Clarence Bluntz and Nancy Bocken

Scale, scope, speed, and customization (pick two): Resourcing drives trade-offs in local compassion venturing effectiveness

Stella Seyb, Trenton A. Williams and Dean A. Shepherd

I'll prove you wrong! The underdog effect as an antecedent to entrepreneurial action and venture persistence

Timothy L. Michaelis, April J. Spivack, Nicholas A. Smith, Jeffrey M. Pollack, Jon C. Carr and Alexander McKelvie

Debiasing entrepreneurial careers: A field experiment on female role model effects on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and early-stage career choices

Laura Bechthold, Laura Rosendahl Huber and Kimberly A. Eddleston

Permission to play: Trying on entrepreneurship in times of crisis

Madeline Toubiana, Brian J. Bergman , Angelique Slade Shantz and Sophie Bacq

The valorization of employment: How communities and founders shape new venture outcomes

Robert N. Eberhart, Renee Rottner and Michael Lounsbury

Rewards-based crowdfunding as an institutional carrier: The cross-border backing of environmental projects

Ahmed Sewaid, Tom Vanacker and Shaker A. Zahra

Populism, cultural tightness, and informal venture entry

Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, Jorge Arteaga-Fonseca, Timothy L. Michaelis and Christopher Sutter

When venture capital comes to town: Local ecosystem effects beyond funded ventures

Steven Poelhekke and Benjamin Wache

Are language models intelligent enough for entrepreneurial work? A language-centered perspective

Stratos Ramoglou, Liang Shang, Yanto Chandra and Jeffery S. McMullen

Beyond computation: How National Supercomputing Centers facilitate new business entry

Yikai Zhao, Jingyi Tian, Shutong Zhang and Jun Nagayasu

Volume 41, issue 2, 2026

Hype in entrepreneurial settings

Raghu Garud, Nelson Phillips, Yuliya Snihur, Llewellyn D.W. Thomas and Charlene Zietsma

How cross-national border influences of global phenomena render entrepreneurship inherently international

Stephanie A. Fernhaber and Christian Schwens

Social entrepreneurship mechanisms for systems change: A structuration approach

Gorgi Krlev

Beyond direct impact: Exploring inward FDI’s multifaceted effects on new venture creation

Lingli Luo, Junichi Yamanoi, Xufei Ma and Linan Lei

The dynamics of narcissism in founding teams: Implications for co-founder turnover and venture growth

Ulrich Lang, Victoria Berg, Jannis von Nitzsch and Andreas Engelen

From strong ties to no ties: Configurations for first-customer acquisition in tech startups

Lien Denoo, Pek Hooi Soh and Bart Clarysse

Volume 41, issue 1, 2026

Investor heterogeneity and venture performance

Marwin Mönkemeyer, Kathrin Rennertseder and Henning Schröder

The “devil” you don't know: A test of the detriments and benefits of co-founding with strangers

Jason Greenberg and Ethan Mollick

Schooling and entrepreneurship: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Simon C. Parker

Black entrepreneurship: A multilevel process model of constrained agency across the business venturing lifecycle

Trey Lewis, Richard A. Hunt, Maurice J. Murphy and David M. Townsend

Entrepreneurship, age, and the lifespan: Taking stock and avenues for future research

Moren Lévesque, Ute Stephan, Teemu Kautonen and René Bakker

Tell me “how” and “why”: Mentor feedback framing, construal level, and entrepreneurial pivoting

Miranda J. Welbourne Eleazar and Toyah L. Miller

From algorithmic hallucinations to alien minds: Addressing the ideator's dilemma through entrepreneurial work

Judy Rady, David Townsend and Rick Hunt

Seeing human resources of entrepreneurial firms in new ways

Melissa S. Cardon, Mirjam Knockaert, Frederik Anseel and M. Diane Burton

Do entrepreneurs' values make them “Happy”? The role of personal and cultural value for entrepreneurs' wellbeing

Pierre-Jean Hanard, Ute Stephan and Uta K. Bindl

Entrepreneurial imagination: A pluralistic scoping review of a sprawling literature

Alexander S. Kier, Neil A. Thompson, Todd H. Chiles and Joep P. Cornelissen

Does self-employment increase stress? A co-twin control analysis of Finnish and US twins

Vangelis Souitaris, Nicos Nicolaou, James Waters, Dean Shepherd and Nina Hashem

Revitalising the periphery: How support organisations drive the inclusive evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems

Shuai Qin

Say it like you mean it: The effect of cross-channel affective consistency on perceived preparedness and authenticity in funding pitches

Benjamin J. Warnick, Thomas H. Allison and Blakley C. Davis