Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 30 Issue 2

Entrepreneurial strategies for coping with supply chain disruptions in the grocery-retail sector

Ying Yang, Youssef Kobbacy, George Onofrei, Hung Nguyen

This study aims to explore business strategies adopted by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK’s grocery-retail industry to cope with supply chain (SC) disruptions…

Social bricolage and business model innovation: a framework for social entrepreneurship organizations

Adriana Scuotto, Mariavittoria Cicellin, Stefano Consiglio

The last two decades have witnessed a surge of interest in social entrepreneurship organizations (SEOs). Understanding their business models is crucial for sustaining their…

Prior partnering experience and preferred alliance partner diversity of small firms

Johan Lidström, Vladimir Vanyushyn

This study investigates how small firms develop preferences for varying levels of alliance partner diversity by applying a behavioral perspective.

Management control systems. A non-family stakeholder perspective on the critical success factors influencing continuous stakeholder support during businesses succession

Lil Rodriguez Serna, Dorothea Maria Bowyer, Sheree K. Gregory

Although the use of management control systems (MCS) is known to support organizational strategic success, the role played by MCS to monitor stakeholder satisfaction, thus…

Has COVID-19 pushed digitalisation in SMEs? The role of entrepreneurial orientation

Lara Penco, Giorgia Profumo, Francesca Serravalle, Milena Viassone

The authors’ aim is to investigate if entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has a role in interpreting an external crisis, such as COVID-19, as an opportunity for investing in digital…

Corporate sustainability in entrepreneurial settings: green management and operational fairness as joint drivers of venture competitiveness

Thalita Láua Reis Campos, Thais Vieira Nunhes, Brian Harney, Otavio José de Oliveira

Considering the characteristics and barriers faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the need to be competitive in the current scenario of high demand for sustainability…

Firm performance in uncertain times: the importance of networking capabilities

Douglas Wegner, Cristian Rogério Foguesatto, André Luis Zuliani

Although a body of studies investigates how networking capabilities (NCs) form and maintain interorganizational relationships that affect firm performance, little is known about…

Internationalisation, knowledge intensity, adaptive culture and absorptive capacity: a strategic entrepreneurship enabling logic for export firms

Dung Tien Luu

This study proposes a logic to enable strategic entrepreneurship for export firms through absorptive capacity and adaptive culture to capitalise on the knowledge intensity from…

Algorithms and venture investment decisions: better, fairer or biased?

Matthew Levy, Eric Liguori

This paper is a rejoinder to the work of Blohm, Antretter, and colleagues recently published in both Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Harvard Business Review titled “It's…