Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 29 Issue 6

Editorial: The research-practice gap in entrepreneurship

Thomas Pittz

From corporate entrepreneurship to turnover intention: a view from humane entrepreneurship

Jungmin Nam, Do Hui Kim, Jae Kang

Based on the humane entrepreneurship perspective, this study examines the mediating relationship of organizational trust (OT) between corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and turnover…

Main street business owners: aging in plain sight

Nancy Forster-Holt

Aging is the most important social-demographic issue worldwide, supported by the initiatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) in its global strategy and action plan for…

Analysis of determinants of youth self-employment career choices

Degsew Melak, Tegegne Derbe

Given the different manifestations of the unemployment crisis, the main purpose of this study was to identify what characteristics influence the participation of youth in key…

Trust building in science-based SMEs in the North East of England: an ecosystem perspective

Steven Pattinson, James Cunningham, David Preece, Mark A. P. Davies

This paper identifies exigent factors that enable and constrain trust building in a science-based innovation ecosystem.

Testing the EntreComp framework and its relation to start-up behaviour in seven European countries

Sanna Joensuu-Salo, Anmari Viljamaa, Elina Varamäki

The European Commission has published a general framework of entrepreneurship competence (EC), EntreComp, to create a shared definition and support its development. This study…

Student entrepreneurship ecosystems at Australian higher education institutions

Alex Maritz, Quan Nguyen, Sergey Ivanov

Despite the significance, university student start-ups and student entrepreneurship ecosystems (SEEs) have been subject to little research. This study aims to apply a qualitative…

Dynamic capability, ambidexterity and social network—empirical evidence from SMEs in China

Xin He, Xia Wu, David Croasdell, Yanhai Zhao

The investigation of organization's ambidextrous innovation is a challenge in the research studies of management sciences. As existent literature showed a positive relation…

Job challenges are hindrances too: examining experiences of managers and employees in Finnish SMEs

Outi Vanharanta, Matti Vartiainen, Kirsi Polvinen

The study aims to explore job demands experienced by employees and managers in micro-enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing on the job demands…