Journal of Business Venturing

1985 - 2025

Current editor(s): S. Venkataraman

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Volume 36, issue 6, 2021

Launching for success: The effects of psychological distance and mental simulation on funding decisions and crowdfunding performance

Stefan Rose, Daniel Wentzel, Christian Hopp and Jermain Kaminski

Technology ventures' engagement of external actors in the search for viable market applications: On the relevance of Technology Broadcasting and Systematic Validation

Petra Andries, Bart Clarysse and Sergio Costa

Stakeholder identification as entrepreneurial action: The social process of stakeholder enrollment in new venture emergence

J. Robert Mitchell, Trevor L. Israelsen, Ronald K. Mitchell and Dominic S.K. Lim

Writing bold, broad, and rigorous review articles in entrepreneurship

Sophie Bacq, Will Drover and Phillip H. Kim

The relationship between venture capital backing and the top management team quality of firms going public and implications for initial public offerings

Thomas Chemmanur, Manish Gupta, Karen Simonyan and Hassan Tehranian

An institutional perspective on borrowing discouragement among female-owned enterprises and the role of regional female empowerment

Juanita Kimiyo Forrester and François Neville

From cultural entrepreneurship to economic entrepreneurship in cultural industries: The role of digital serialization

Jeffery S. McMullen, Amy Wenxuan Ding and Shibo Li

In the heat of the game: Analogical abduction in a pragmatist account of entrepreneurial reasoning

Anastasia Sergeeva, Akhil Bhardwaj and Dimo Dimov

From homo economicus to homo agens: Toward a subjective rationality for entrepreneurship

Mark D. Packard and Per Bylund

Trust, fast and slow: A comparison study of the trust behaviors of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs

Qingqing Bi, Wai Fong Boh and Georgios Christopoulos

Is blood always thicker than water? Family firm parents, kinship ties, and the survival of spawns

Giuseppe Criaco, (Hans) van Oosterhout, J. and Mattias Nordqvist

Venture distress and problemistic search among entrepreneurs in Brazilian favelas

Anna-Katharina Lenz, Christopher Sutter, Rafael Goldszmidt and Cesar Zucco

Volume 36, issue 5, 2021

Timing is everything? Curvilinear effects of age at entry on new firm growth and survival and the moderating effect of IPO performance

Jiaju Yan and D.W. Williams

Entrepreneurs' stressors and well-being: A recovery perspective and diary study

Dominika Wach, Ute Stephan, Eva Weinberger and Jürgen Wegge

A country-level institutional perspective on entrepreneurship productivity: The effects of informal economy and regulation

Ashkan Fredström, Juhana Peltonen and Joakim Wincent

On the origins of entrepreneurship: Evidence from sibling correlations

Theodor Vladasel, Matthew Lindquist, Joeri Sol and Mirjam Praag

Entrepreneurial Finance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Token Offerings

Paul P. Momtaz

Managing negative emotions from entrepreneurial project failure: When and how does supportive leadership help employees?

Holger Patzelt, Leire Gartzia, Marcus T. Wolfe and Dean A. Shepherd

Venture Idea Assessment (VIA): Development of a needed concept, measure, and research agenda

Per Davidsson, Denis A. Grégoire and Maike Lex

Configurations for corporate venture innovation: Investigating the role of the dominant coalition

Matthias Waldkirch, Nadine Kammerlander and Conrad Wiedeler

Unfolding refugee entrepreneurs' opportunity-production process — Patterns and embeddedness

Yi Dragon Jiang, Caroline Straub, Kim Klyver and René Mauer

Toward a theological turn in entrepreneurship: How religion could enable transformative research in our field

Brett R. Smith, Jeffery S. McMullen and Melissa S. Cardon

Habitual entrepreneurship in digital platform ecosystems: A time-contingent model of learning from prior software project experiences

Terence Fan, Andreas Schwab and Xuesong Geng

Breaking boundaries to creatively generate value: The role of resourcefulness in entrepreneurship

Trenton Alma Williams, Eric Yanfei Zhao, Scott Sonenshein, Deniz Ucbasaran and Gerard George

Now is the time: The effects of linguistic time reference and national time orientation on innovative new ventures

Jintong Tang, Jun Yang, Wenping Ye and Shaji A. Khan

A holistic approach to the evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploratory study of academic spin-offs

Hooman Abootorabi, Johan Wiklund, Alan R. Johnson and Cameron D. Miller

When the beacon goes dark: Legitimacy repair work by subsequent actors in an emerging market category

Brett R. Smith, Brian J. Bergman and Glen E. Kreiner

Volume 36, issue 4, 2021

Alert and Awake: Role of alertness and attention on rate of new product introductions

Smita Srivastava, Arvin Sahaym and Thomas H. Allison

Mortgage affordability and entrepreneurship: Evidence from spatial discontinuity in Help-to-Buy equity loans

Nikodem Szumilo and Enrico Vanino

A multi-motivational general model of entrepreneurial intention

Evan J. Douglas, Dean A. Shepherd and Vidhula Venugopal

Turning a curse into a blessing: Contingent effects of geographic distance on startup–VC partnership performance

Jiamin Zhang and Qian Gu

Express yourself: Facial expression of happiness, anger, fear, and sadness in funding pitches

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

Beyond bricolage: Early-stage technology venture resource mobilization in resource-scarce contexts

Lina Reypens, Sophie Bacq and Hana Milanov

Persuasive or polarizing? The influence of entrepreneurs' use of ingratiation rhetoric on investor funding decisions

Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, Matthew S. Wood and Anna Long-Ruboyianes

The art of discovering and exploiting unexpected opportunities: The roles of organizational improvisation and serendipity in new venture performance

Andrew E.F. Fultz and Keith M. Hmieleski

Resourcefulness narratives: Transforming actions into stories to mobilize support

Greg Fisher, Emily Neubert and Devin Burnell

Navigating interpersonal feedback seeking in social venturing: The roles of psychological distance and sensemaking

Andreana Drencheva, Ute Stephan, Malcolm G. Patterson and Anna Topakas

Explaining serial crowdfunders' dynamic fundraising performance

Ahmed Sewaid, Simon C. Parker and Abdulkader Kaakeh

Co-creative entrepreneurship

Masoud Karami and Stuart Read

Pivoting or persevering with venture ideas: Recalibrating temporal commitments

Hans Berends, Elco van Burg and Raghu Garud

How cultural tightness interacts with gender in founding teams: Insights from the commercialization of social ventures

Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Seemantini Pathak, Amy Taylor-Bianco and Brandon Ofem

Opportunity evaluation in teams: A social cognitive model

Mark P. Healey, Mercedes Bleda and Adrien Querbes-Revier

Volume 36, issue 3, 2021

Enhancing measures of ESE to incorporate aspects of place: Personal reputation and place-based social legitimacy

Helen Pushkarskaya, Michael W.-P. Fortunato, Nicole Breazeale and David Just

How childhood ADHD-like symptoms predict selection into entrepreneurship and implications on entrepreneurial performance

Nasir Rajah, Vassiliki Bamiatzi and Nick Williams

Trends and patterns in sustainable entrepreneurship research: A bibliometric review and research agenda

Amitabh Anand, Padmaja Argade, Ralf Barkemeyer and Fanny Salignac

The mirroring of intercultural and hybridity experiences: A study of African immigrant social entrepreneurs

Nkosana Mafico, Anna Krzeminska, Charmine Härtel and Josh Keller

Getting more from many—A framework of community resourcefulness in new venture creation

Christina Hertel, Julia Binder and Emmanuelle Fauchart

Economic inequality – Is entrepreneurship the cause or the solution? A review and research agenda for emerging economies

Garry Bruton, Christopher Sutter and Anna-Katharina Lenz

Fatal attraction: A systematic review and research agenda of the dark triad in entrepreneurship

Katrina M. Brownell, Jeffery S. McMullen and Ernest H. O'Boyle

Volume 36, issue 2, 2021

Strategic exits in secondary venture capital markets

Guillaume Andrieu and Alexander Peter Groh

Twitter sentiment as a weak signal in venture capital financing

Andranik Tumasjan, Reiner Braun and Barbara Stolz

Legitimation of a heterogeneous market category through covert prototype differentiation

Anna Krzeminska, Erik Lundmark and Charmine E.J. Härtel

Navigating compromise: How founder authenticity affects venture identification amidst organizational hybridity

Anna M. Wagenschwanz and Matthew G. Grimes

Signal configurations: Exploring set-theoretic relationships in angel investing

Linda F. Edelman, Tatiana S. Manolova, Candida G. Brush and Clifton M. Chow

Toward a coping-dueling-fit theory of the ADHD-entrepreneurship relationship: Treatment's influence on business venturing, performance, and persistence

Nathan Sidney Greidanus and Chi Liao

Head in the clouds? Cannabis users' creativity in new venture ideation depends on their entrepreneurial passion and experience

Benjamin J. Warnick, Alexander S. Kier, Emily M. LaFrance and Carrie Cuttler

Knowable opportunities in an unknowable future? On the epistemological paradoxes of entrepreneurship theory

Stratos Ramoglou

Volume 36, issue 1, 2021

Business founders' work design and new venture development

Ryan Shuwei Hsu, Aichia Chuang and An-Chih Wang

Career patterns in self-employment and career success

Michael Koch, Sarah Park and Shaker A. Zahra

Age and entrepreneurial career success: A review and a meta-analysis

Hao Zhao, Gina O'Connor, Jihong Wu and G.T. Lumpkin

How does entrepreneurial failure change an entrepreneur's digital identity? Evidence from Twitter data

Christian Fisch and Joern Block

Childhood adversity and the propensity for entrepreneurship: A quasi-experimental study of the Great Chinese Famine

Zhiming Cheng, Wei Guo, Mathew Hayward, Russell Smyth and Haining Wang

Social entrepreneurship and values work: The role of practices in shaping values and negotiating change

Ira Chatterjee, Joep Cornelissen and Joakim Wincent

Globalization and affordability of microfinance

Sunny Li Sun and Hao Liang

Lab, Gig or Enterprise? How scientist-inventors form nascent startup teams

Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn, Daniel P. Forbes, Harry J. Sapienza and Patricia S. Borchert

The sandwich game: Founder-CEOs and forecasting as impression management

Veroniek Collewaert, Tom Vanacker, Frederik Anseel and Dries Bourgois

Do we understand each other? Toward a simulated empathy theory for entrepreneurship

Mark D. Packard and Thomas A. Burnham