Journal of Business Venturing

1985 - 2025

Current editor(s): S. Venkataraman

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Volume 38, issue 6, 2023

Team resilience building in response to co-founder exits

Rebecca Preller, Nicola Breugst, Holger Patzelt and Rieke Dibbern

The benefits of having an entrepreneur-mother: Influence of mother's entrepreneurial status on human capital formation among children

Wenchao Li and Di Tong

Entrepreneurs as prime targets: Insights from Mexican ventures on the link between venture visibility and crime of varying severity

Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, Matthew S. Wood, Timothy L. Michaelis and Jaime Suarez

From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time

Suzana Varga, Magdalena Cholakova, Justin J.P. Jansen, Tom J.M. Mom and Guus J.M. Kok

Volume 38, issue 4, 2023

Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator

Kai Becker, Joris J. Ebbers and Yuval Engel

Moving on: Narrative identity reconstruction after entrepreneurial failure

Itziar Castelló, David Barberá-Tomás and Eero Vaara

Facing the future through entrepreneurship theory: A prospective inquiry framework

Pablo Muñoz and Dimo Dimov

Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses

Blake D. Mathias and Stephanie Wang

A tale of two life stages: The imprinting effect of macroeconomic contractions on later life entrepreneurship

Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos, Matthew P. Mount, Cahit Guven, Aydogan Ulker and Carol Graham

Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting

Devin Burnell, Regan Stevenson and Greg Fisher

Preparing for scaling: A study on founder role evolution

Evy Van Lancker, Mirjam Knockaert, Veroniek Collewaert and Nicola Breugst

Navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurial identity threats to persist: The countervailing force of a relational identity with God

Brett R. Smith, Amanda Lawson, Saulo Dubard Barbosa and Jessica Jones

Volume 38, issue 3, 2023

A system dynamics modelling of entrepreneurship and growth within firms

Jinfeng Lu and Dimo Dimov

Progress without a venture? Individual benefits of post-disruption entrepreneuring

Sara Thorgren and Trenton Alma Williams

From community rootedness to individuated entrepreneuring: The development of entrepreneurial motivation through a temporary community of practice

Yuliya Shymko and Theodore A. Khoury

Rationality in the entrepreneurship process: Is being rational actually rational? Introduction to the special issue

Jeffrey M. Pollack, Melissa S. Cardon, Matthew W. Rutherford, Enrica N. Ruggs, Lakshmi Balachandra and Robert A. Baron

Volume 38, issue 2, 2023

The good, the bad and the uncertain: Employers' perceptions of former entrepreneurs

Alexander Küsshauer and Matthias Baum

The nature and origins of social venture mission: An exploratory study of political ideology and moral foundations

David S. Lucas and U. David Park

Job burnout and work engagement in entrepreneurs: How the psychological utility of entrepreneurship drives healthy engagement

Martin Obschonka, Ignacio Pavez, Teemu Kautonen, Ewald Kibler, Katariina Salmela-Aro and Joakim Wincent

Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media

Benedikt David Christian Seigner, Hana Milanov, Erik Lundmark and Dean A. Shepherd

Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion

Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhatt, Christopher Sutter and Dhirendra Mani Shukla

Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing

Jeffery S. McMullen and Scott L. Newbert

A founding-team model of creating a venture's culture

Dean A. Shepherd, Nicola Breugst and Holger Patzelt

Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry

Wei Yu, Ute Stephan and Jia Bao

Community and aftershock: New venture founding in the wake of deadly natural disasters

Arkangel M. Cordero

Actions in words: How entrepreneurs use diversified and changing speech acts to achieve funding success

Pyayt P. Oo, Lin Jiang, Arvin Sahaym, Annaleena Parhankangas and Richard Chan

Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries

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

Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Mathew Hayward, Russell Smyth and Trong-Anh Trinh

Volume 38, issue 1, 2023

(S)training experiences: Toward understanding decreases in entrepreneurial self-efficacy during action-oriented entrepreneurship training

Carina Bohlayer and Michael M. Gielnik

Inclusive entrepreneurship: A call for a shared theoretical conversation about unconventional entrepreneurs

Rene M. Bakker and Jeffery S. McMullen

Institutional work to navigate ethical dilemmas: Evidence from a social enterprise

Pradeep Kumar Hota, Babita Bhatt and Israr Qureshi

Volume 37, issue 6, 2022

When do spinouts benefit from market overlap with parent firms?

Aliasghar Bahoo-Torodi and Salvatore Torrisi

Made to be broken? A theory of regulatory governance and rule-breaking entrepreneurial action

David S. Lucas, Caleb Fuller and Mark D. Packard

Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: ESG measurement, valuation, and performance

Sasan Mansouri and Paul P. Momtaz

Momentum for entrepreneurial internationalization: Friction at the interface between international and domestic institutions

Wei Hua, Ronald K. Mitchell, Benjamin T. Mitchell, J. Robert Mitchell and Trevor L. Israelsen

Volume 37, issue 5, 2022

Will the startup succeed in your eyes? Venture evaluation of resource providers during entrepreneurs' informational signaling

Curtis L. Wesley , Dejun Tony Kong, Connor J. Lubojacky, M. Kim Saxton and Todd Saxton

Referrals among VCs and the length of due diligence: The effect of relational embeddedness

Christina Guenther, Serden Özcan and Dirk Sassmannshausen

Communities at the nexus of entrepreneurship and societal impact: A cross-disciplinary literature review

Sophie Bacq, Christina Hertel and G.T. Lumpkin

Digital infrastructure and entrepreneurial action-formation: A multilevel study

Philipp Schade and Monika C. Schuhmacher

Advancing societal grand challenge research at the interface of entrepreneurship and international business: A review and research agenda

Stephanie A. Fernhaber and Huan Zou

The effect of trademark breadth on IPO valuation and post-IPO performance: an empirical investigation of 1510 European IPOs

Christian Fisch, Michele Meoli, Silvio Vismara and Joern Block

Modeling new-firm growth and survival with panel data using event magnitude regression

Frédéric Delmar, Jonas Wallin and Ahmed Maged Nofal

Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes

Alina Sorgner and Michael Wyrwich

Do I have a big ego? Angel investors' narcissism and investment behaviors

Wan-Chien Lien, Jianhong Chen and Jeffrey Sohl

Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance

Jianhua Ge, Joanna Mingxuan Li, Eric Yanfei Zhao and Fan Yang

Volume 37, issue 4, 2022

Questioning boundedly rational frameworks in practice: The case of women entrepreneurs in Kumasi, Ghana

Arielle Badger Newman and Sharon Alvarez

The potentials and perils of prosocial power: Transnational social entrepreneurship dynamics in vulnerable places

Florian Koehne, Richard Woodward and Benson Honig

Overconfidence and entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of different types of overconfidence in the entrepreneurial process

Priscilla S. Kraft, Christina Günther, Nadine H. Kammerlander and Jan Lampe

The origins of capabilities: Resource allocation strategies, capability development, and the performance of new firms

Noni Symeonidou, Aija Leiponen, Erkko Autio and Johan Bruneel

Co-creation in effectuation processes: A stakeholder perspective on commitment reasoning

Jonathan Van Mumford and Peter Zettinig

Persist or let it go: Do rational entrepreneurs make decisions rationally?

Nidthida Lin, Ralf Wilden, Francesco Chirico, Elahe Ghasrodashti and Dawn R. DeTienne

Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don't

Yingzhu Fu, Matthias A. Tietz and Frédéric Delmar

The role of prototype fidelity in technology crowdfunding

Michael Wessel, Ferdinand Thies and Alexander Benlian

Ecological rationality and entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs fit decision logics to decision content and structure

Sonia Koller, Ute Stephan and Gorkan Ahmetoglu

Women's entrepreneurship and well-being at the base of the pyramid

Ira Chatterjee, Dean A. Shepherd and Joakim Wincent

The right touch of pitch assertiveness: Examining entrepreneurs' gender and project category fit in crowdfunding

Jordan J. McSweeney, Kevin T. McSweeney, Justin W. Webb and Cynthia E. Devers

Regional social capital and moral hazard in crowdfunding

Tse-Chun Lin and Vesa Pursiainen

Entrepreneur-investor rivalry over new venture control: The battle for Balcones Distilling

Theodore L. Waldron, Jeffery S. McMullen, Oleg V. Petrenko, Lori Tribble Trudell and Olivia Aronson

Progress toward understanding tensions in corporate venture capital: A systematic review

Euiju Jeon and Markku Maula

Machines augmenting entrepreneurs: Opportunities (and threats) at the Nexus of artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship

Dean A. Shepherd and Ann Majchrzak

Categorically right? How firm-level distinctiveness affects performance across product categories

Jonas Janisch and Alexander Vossen

Volume 37, issue 3, 2022

Cracks in the wall: Entrepreneurial action theory and the weakening presumption of intended rationality

Richard Hunt, Daniel A. Lerner, Sheri L. Johnson, Sangeeta Badal and Michael A. Freeman

Ventures' conscious knowledge transfer to close partners, and beyond: A framework of performance, complementarity, knowledge disclosure, and knowledge broadcasting

Theresa Veer, Philip Yang and Jan Riepe

Social corporations under the spotlight: A governance perspective

Coline Serres, Marek Hudon and François Maon

Can you hear me now? Engendering passion and preparedness perceptions with vocal expressions in crowdfunding pitches

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

Radical innovation in (multi)family owned firms

Francesco Chirico, R. Duane Ireland, Daniel Pittino and Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso

Staying poor: Unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure

Maria L. Granados, Ainurul Rosli and Manto Gotsi

Volume 37, issue 2, 2022

Failed but validated? The effect of market validation on persistence and performance after a crowdfunding failure

Regan Stevenson, Jared Allen and Tang Wang

Sitting on the fence - Untangling the role of uncertainty in entrepreneurship and paid employment for hybrid entry

Gertraud M. Gänser-Stickler, Matthias Schulz and Christian Schwens

When sergeants can outrank generals: Person-organization fit and the performance of franchisees as agents of their franchisor

Thorsten Semrau and Torsten Biemann

Taking root in fertile ground: Community context and the agglomeration of hybrid companies

Michael V. Russo, Andrew G. Earle, Brooke A. Lahneman and Suzanne G. Tilleman

Now that's interesting and important! Moving beyond averages to increase the inferential value of empirical findings in entrepreneurship research

Scott L. Newbert, Romi Kher and Shu Yang

Perceived social undermining keeps entrepreneurs up at night and disengaged the next day: The mediating role of sleep quality and the buffering role of trait resilience

Wei Yu, Zhuyi Angelina Li, Maw-Der Foo and Shuhua Sun

Align or perish: Social enterprise network orchestration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Christian Busch and Harry Barkema

Good apples in spoiled barrels: A temporal model of firm formalization in a field characterized by widespread informality

Valeria Cavotta and Elena Dalpiaz

The challenges of supporting necessity entrepreneurs: Understanding loan officer exit in microfinance

Laura Doering and Tyler Wry

Volume 37, issue 1, 2022

Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective

Luca Castellanza

Sold, not bought: Market orientation and technology as drivers of acquisitions of private biotechnology ventures

Maija Renko, Helena Yli-Renko and Lien Denoo

The evolution of founder identity as an authenticity work process

Isobel O'Neil, Deniz Ucbasaran and Jeffrey G. York

A social model of opportunity development: Building and engaging communities of inquiry

Dean A. Shepherd, Rose Sattari and Holger Patzelt

An agentic perspective of resourcefulness: Self-reliant and joint resourcefulness behaviors within the entrepreneurship process

Timothy L. Michaelis, David J. Scheaf, Jon C. Carr and Jeffrey M. Pollack

Partnerships as an enabler of resourcefulness in generating sustainable outcomes

Todd W. Moss, A.C. Dahik Loor and F. Diaz Parada

A personal adversity model of justifying the costs of entrepreneurial action: The case of oil thieves in the Niger DELTA

Dean A. Shepherd, Moses Osofero and Joakim Wincent

Sowing the seeds of failure: Organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting

Yuliya Snihur and Bart Clarysse

Owls, larks, or investment sharks? The role of circadian process in early-stage investment decisions

Cristiano L. Guarana, Regan M. Stevenson, J. Jeffrey Gish, Ji Woon Ryu and Rohan Crawley