Journal of Business Venturing

1985 - 2025

Current editor(s): S. Venkataraman

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Volume 31, issue 6, 2016

Entrepreneurial exit intentions and the business-family interface pp. 613-627

Dan K. Hsu, Johan Wiklund, Stella E. Anderson and Betty S. Coffey

Interactive effects of multiple organizational climates on employee innovative behavior in entrepreneurial firms: A cross-level investigation pp. 628-642

Jae Hyeung Kang, James G. Matusik, Tae-Yeol Kim and J. Mark Phillips

An institutional logics approach to social entrepreneurship: Market logic, religious diversity, and resource acquisition by microfinance organizations pp. 643-662

Eric Yanfei Zhao and Michael Lounsbury

Trapped by the entrepreneurial mindset: Opportunity seeking and escalation of commitment in the Mount Everest disaster pp. 663-686

Jeffery S. McMullen and Alexander S. Kier

Why family matters: The impact of family resources on immigrant entrepreneurs' exit from entrepreneurship pp. 687-704

Miriam Bird and Karl Wennberg

Volume 31, issue 5, 2016

A meta-analysis of different HR-enhancing practices and performance of small and medium sized firms pp. 485-504

Andreas Rauch and Isabella Hatak

Beyond cultural values? Cultural leadership ideals and entrepreneurship pp. 505-523

Ute Stephan and Saurav Pathak

The effect of trade secret legal protection on venture capital investments: Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine pp. 524-541

Francesco Castellaneta, Raffaele Conti, Francisco M. Veloso and Carlos A. Kemeny

Measuring the social identity of entrepreneurs: Scale development and international validation pp. 542-572

Philipp Sieger, Marc Gruber, Emmanuelle Fauchart and Thomas Zellweger

Do local and international venture capitalists play well together? The complementarity of local and international venture capitalists pp. 573-594

Thomas Chemmanur, Tyler J. Hull and Karthik Krishnan

Passionate bricoleurs and new venture survival pp. 595-611

Pekka Stenholm and Maija Renko

Volume 31, issue 4, 2016

Victim entrepreneurs doing well by doing good: Venture creation and well-being in the aftermath of a resource shock pp. 365-387

Trenton A. Williams and Dean A. Shepherd

See Paris and… found a business? The impact of cross-cultural experience on opportunity recognition capabilities pp. 388-407

Peter Vandor and Nikolaus Franke

Variable risk preferences in new firm growth and survival pp. 408-427

Karl Wennberg, Frédéric Delmar and Alexander McKelvie

The impact of family support on young entrepreneurs' start-up activities pp. 428-448

Linda F. Edelman, Tatiana Manolova, Galina Shirokova and Tatyana Tsukanova

Human capital in social and commercial entrepreneurship pp. 449-467

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Ute Stephan

Drawn to the fire: The role of passion, tenacity and inspirational leadership in angel investing pp. 468-484

Charles Y. Murnieks, Melissa S. Cardon, Richard Sudek, T. Daniel White and Wade T. Brooks

Volume 31, issue 3, 2016

Escalation of commitment in venture capital decision making: Differentiating between domestic and international investors pp. 253-271

David Devigne, Sophie Manigart and Mike Wright

Hybrid entrepreneurship and public policy: The case of firm entry deregulation pp. 272-286

Matthias Schulz, Diemo Urbig and Vivien Procher

In user's shoes: An experimental design on the role of perspective taking in discovering entrepreneurial opportunities pp. 287-301

Emanuela Prandelli, Martina Pasquini and Gianmario Verona

A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship pp. 302-325

Gabriella Cacciotti, James C. Hayton, J. Robert Mitchell and Andres Giazitzoglu

Creative destruction and productive preemptive acquisitions pp. 326-343

Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson and Roger Svensson

Unraveling the “passion orchestra” in academia pp. 344-364

Annelore Huyghe, Mirjam Knockaert and Martin Obschonka

Volume 31, issue 2, 2016

Balancing “what matters to me” with “what matters to them”: Exploring the legitimation process of environmental entrepreneurs pp. 133-152

Isobel O'Neil and Deniz Ucbasaran

Contingent value of political capital in bank loan acquisition: Evidence from founder-controlled private enterprises in China pp. 153-174

Hongxin Zhao and Jiangyong Lu

Governmental venture capital in Europe: Screening and certification pp. 175-195

Massimiliano Guerini and Anita Quas

Flexible or fragile? The growth performance of small and young businesses during the global financial crisis — Evidence from Germany pp. 196-215

Wiebke Bartz and Adalbert Winkler

Outcomes of entrepreneurship education: An institutional perspective pp. 216-233

Sascha G. Walter and Joern Block

Behavioral disinhibition and nascent venturing: Relevance and initial effects on potential resource providers pp. 234-252

Daniel A. Lerner

Volume 31, issue 1, 2016

Aspiring to succeed: A model of entrepreneurship and fear of failure pp. 1-21

John Morgan and Dana Sisak

Subsidies, rent seeking and performance: Being young, small or private in China pp. 22-38

Jun Du and Tomasz Mickiewicz

A comparison of the effect of angels and venture capitalists on innovation and value creation pp. 39-54

Supradeep Dutta and Timothy B. Folta

Self-efficacy and entrepreneurs' adoption of unattainable goals: The restraining effects of self-control pp. 55-71

Robert A. Baron, Brandon A. Mueller and Marcus T. Wolfe

The many faces of entrepreneurial failure: Insights from an empirical taxonomy pp. 72-94

Nabil Khelil

Corporate venture capital portfolios and firm innovation pp. 95-112

Anu Wadhwa, Corey Phelps and Suresh Kotha

Are the HR responses of small firms different from large firms in times of recession? pp. 113-131

Yanqing Lai, George Saridakis, Robert Blackburn and Stewart Johnstone

Volume 30, issue 6, 2015

Failure or voluntary exit? Reassessing the female underperformance hypothesis pp. 775-792

Rachida Justo, Dawn R. DeTienne and Philipp Sieger

Uncovering the influence of social venture creation on commercial venture creation: A population ecology perspective pp. 793-807

Karla I. Mendoza-Abarca, Sergey Anokhin and César Zamudio

Angel group members' decision process and rejection criteria: A longitudinal analysis pp. 808-821

Cécile Carpentier and Jean-Marc Suret

Making the most of group relationships: The role of gender and boundary effects in microcredit groups pp. 822-838

Hana Milanov, Rachida Justo and Steven W. Bradley

Strategically camouflaged corporate governance in IPOs: Entrepreneurial masking and impression management pp. 839-864

David F. Benson, James C. Brau, James Cicon and Stephen P. Ferris

Volume 30, issue 5, 2015

From entrepreneurial intentions to actions: Self-control and action-related doubt, fear, and aversion pp. 655-673

Marco Van Gelderen, Teemu Kautonen and Matthias Fink

Entrepreneurial opportunities and the entrepreneurship nexus: A re-conceptualization pp. 674-695

Per Davidsson

Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: Implications for theory and research pp. 696-713

G. Christopher Crawford, Herman Aguinis, Benyamin Lichtenstein, Per Davidsson and Bill McKelvey

Examining the relationship between creativity and innovation: A meta-analysis of organizational, cultural, and environmental factors pp. 714-731

Hessamoddin Sarooghi, Dirk Libaers and Andrew Burkemper

How images and color in business plans influence venture investment screening decisions pp. 732-748

C.S. Richard Chan and Haemin Dennis Park

Value proposition evolution and the performance of internal corporate ventures pp. 749-774

Jeffrey G. Covin, Robert P. Garrett, Donald F. Kuratko and Dean A. Shepherd

Volume 30, issue 4, 2015

How does governmental versus private venture capital backing affect a firm's efficiency? Evidence from Belgium pp. 508-525

Yan Alperovych, Georges Hübner and Fabrice Lobet

Economic informality and the venture funding impact of migrant remittances to developing countries11Please contact Paul M. Vaaler regarding this paper. This research benefitted from a presentation at the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain, Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Business, and the meetings of the Great Lakes Entrepreneurship Network and the Strategic Management Society. Paul M. Vaaler acknowledges financial support for this research from the Carlson School of Management's Dean's Office. He also thanks Mari Sako and Chris Flegg of Oxford University's Saïd Business School, the late Mark Janes of Oxford University's Bodleian Library for time and resources helpful to the development of this research. He is also grateful to Sebastian Plubins, Iñigo Moré Martinez and colleagues at Ria Financial for helpful comments and survey information on recent remittance industry trends. All errors are ours pp. 526-545

Candace Martinez, Michael E. Cummings and Paul Vaaler

Bric by bric: The role of the family household in sustaining a venture in impoverished Indian slums pp. 546-563

David Gras and Robert S. Nason

Does innovativeness reduce startup survival rates? pp. 564-581

Ari Hyytinen, Mika Pajarinen and Petri Rouvinen

Exploration and exploitation in established small and medium-sized enterprises: The effect of CEOs' regulatory focus pp. 582-602

Nadine Kammerlander, Dominik Burger, Alexander Fust and Urs Fueglistaller

The entrepreneurial journey as an emergent hierarchical system of artifact-creating processes pp. 603-615

Paul D. Selden and Denise Fletcher

The power of arguments: How entrepreneurs convince stakeholders of the legitimate distinctiveness of their ventures pp. 616-631

Ruben van Werven, Onno Bouwmeester and Joep P. Cornelissen

The call of the whole in understanding the development of sustainable ventures pp. 632-654

Pablo Muñoz and Dimo Dimov

Volume 30, issue 3, 2015

Self-employment and the role of health insurance in the U.S pp. 357-374

Gulcin Gumus and Tracy L. Regan

Perceived progress variability and entrepreneurial effort intensity: The moderating role of venture goal commitment pp. 375-389

Marilyn A. Uy, Maw-Der Foo and Remus Ilies

The contingent value of social resources: Entrepreneurs' use of debt-financing sources in Western China pp. 390-406

Yanlong Zhang

Creative personality, opportunity recognition and the tendency to start businesses: A study of their genetic predispositions pp. 407-419

Scott Shane and Nicos Nicolaou

Joining forces: Top management team and board chair characteristics as antecedents of board service involvement pp. 420-435

Mirjam Knockaert, Ekaterina S. Bjornali and Truls Erikson

The double-edged sword of legitimacy in base-of-the-pyramid markets pp. 436-451

Geoffrey M. Kistruck, Justin W. Webb, Christopher J. Sutter and Anastasia V.G. Bailey

Up to standard? pp. 452-466

Yi Tang and Filippo Carlo Wezel

Is microcredit a blessing for the poor? A meta-analysis examining development outcomes and contextual considerations pp. 467-487

Myrto Chliova, Jan Brinckmann and Nina Rosenbusch

Volume 30, issue 2, 2015

The tortoise versus the hare: Progress and business viability differences between conventional and leisure-based founders pp. 185-204

Phillip H. Kim, Kyle C. Longest and Stephen Lippmann

Assessing the impact of public venture capital programmes in the United Kingdom: Do regional characteristics matter? pp. 205-226

Federico Munari and Laura Toschi

Location choice of academic entrepreneurs: Evidence from the US biotechnology industry pp. 227-254

Christos Kolympiris, Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes and Douglas Miller

Making sense of entrepreneurial exit strategies: A typology and test pp. 255-272

Dawn R. DeTienne, Alexander McKelvie and Gaylen N. Chandler

How policy positions women entrepreneurs: A comparative analysis of state discourse in Sweden and the United States pp. 273-291

Helene Ahl and Teresa Nelson

Turning water into wine? Exploring the role of dynamic capabilities in early-stage capitalization processes pp. 292-306

David M. Townsend and Lowell W. Busenitz

Social trust and angel investors' decisions: A multilevel analysis across nations pp. 307-321

Zhujun Ding, Kevin Au and Flora Chiang

Parent inheritance, founder expertise, and venture strategy: Determinants of new venture knowledge impact pp. 322-337

Sandip Basu, Arvin Sahaym, Michael D. Howard and Warren Boeker

Ethnic matching in the U.S. venture capital market pp. 338-354

Ola Bengtsson and David H. Hsu

Volume 30, issue 1, 2015

Entrepreneurship through a qualitative lens: Insights on the construction and/or discovery of entrepreneurial opportunity pp. 1-10

Roy Suddaby, Garry D. Bruton and Steven X. Si

Entrepreneurial inception: The role of imprinting in entrepreneurial action pp. 11-28

Blake D. Mathias, David W. Williams and Adam R. Smith

Entrepreneurial legacy: Toward a theory of how some family firms nurture transgenerational entrepreneurship pp. 29-49

Peter Jaskiewicz, James G. Combs and Sabine B. Rau

Embedded entrepreneurship in the creative re-construction of place pp. 50-65

Edward McKeever, Sarah Jack and Alistair Anderson

How should we divide the pie? Equity distribution and its impact on entrepreneurial teams pp. 66-94

Nicola Breugst, Holger Patzelt and Philipp Rathgeber

Opportunities and institutions: A co-creation story of the king crab industry pp. 95-112

Sharon Alvarez, Susan L. Young and Jennifer L. Woolley

Emotional arousal and entrepreneurial outcomes: Combining qualitative methods to elaborate theory pp. 113-130

Jennifer E. Jennings, Tim Edwards, P. Devereaux Jennings and Rick Delbridge

Institutional entrepreneurs' social mobility in organizational fields pp. 131-149

Theodore L. Waldron, Greg Fisher and Chad Navis

Failed, not finished: A narrative approach to understanding venture failure stigmatization pp. 150-166

Smita Singh, Patricia Doyle Corner and Kathryn Pavlovich

The evolution of interorganizational relationships in emerging ventures: An ethnographic study within the new product development process pp. 167-184

Tucker J. Marion, Kimberly A. Eddleston, John H. Friar and David Deeds