Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 30 Issue 3

Editorial: Entrepreneurship and the culture of measurement

Patrick J. Murphy

Publisher's note

Subcontracting and enterprise development in India's informal manufacturing sector

K. Chandra Shekar, Manikantha Nataraj

Subcontracting is a crucial cause behind the simultaneous existence of formal and informal entrepreneurship in India. This article aims to provide an over-time comparative…

Student entrepreneurial intentions in emerging economies: institutional influences and individual motivations

Adeniyi Damilola Olarewaju, Lizbeth Alicia Gonzalez-Tamayo, Greeni Maheshwari, Maria Carolina Ortiz-Riaga

This study aims to incorporate macro- and micro-level institutional factors into the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model to understand their effect on entrepreneurial…

Learning from entrepreneurial failure: examining attribution and contextual factors of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Indonesia

Munjiati Munawaroh, Nurul Indarti, Wakhid Slamet Ciptono, Tur Nastiti

This study's main objective is to examine the effect of learning from entrepreneurial failure on performance, with a type of failure as a moderator variable. Interactions between…

Horizontal network collaboration by entrepreneurial ventures: a supply chain finance perspective

Alessandra Cozzolino, Mario Calabrese, Gerardo Bosco, Paola Signori, Enrico Massaroni

The present paper aims at understanding how horizontal network collaborations between small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can be designed and implemented to take advantage of a…

Entrepreneurs' preference for corporate venture capital – The influence of exit strategies and resource requirements

Stefanie Weniger, Svenja Jarchow, Oleg Nenadić

Literature on entrepreneurial finance has long overcome the view of an investor as a sole provider of financial capital. Entrepreneurs need to consider more aspects when deciding…

Bridging theory and practice in the humane entrepreneurship domain: insights from small and medium Italian enterprises

Massimiliano Vesci, Antonio Botti, Rosangela Feola, Emanuela Conti, Ayman El Tarabishy

Humane entrepreneurship (HumEnt) has been theoretically proposed as a new model of entrepreneurship supporting the idea of an enlarged entrepreneurial strategic posture. The aim…

International entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: interfirm coordination and local economy dynamics in the informal economy

Christopher Boafo, Alexis Catanzaro, Utz Dornberger

The International Labor Organization (2020) estimates that eight out of ten enterprises (i.e. own-account workers and small economic units) are informal worldwide. However, less…

Visualisation of global research trends and future research directions of digital marketing in small and medium enterprises using bibliometric analysis

Amiri Mdoe Amiri, Bijay Prasad Kushwaha, Rajkumar Singh

The purpose of this research is to undertake a bibliometric analysis of digital marketing research in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The study examines papers over the last…