Hasil untuk "Small and medium-sized businesses, artisans, handicrafts, trades"

Lamia Ben Hamida, Stefanie Hasler, Hana Siala Abid et al.

In the context of economic crises, globalization, and intensifying competition, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—particularly those in the agri-food sector—are increasingly encouraged to expand into international markets. This study fills a gap in the literature by exploring the internationalization of the exceptional Swiss cheese La Tête de Moine AOP from a supply-side perspective. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) and incorporating territorial factors, the research analyzes how internal resources, organizational capabilities, and regional identity contribute to the global success of this local product. Using semi-structured interviews and a focus group involving key stakeholders and experts in the sector, the study identifies the managerial strategies that have enabled La Tête de Moine AOP to establish an international presence. The findings underscore the importance of cooperative dynamics among local actors—including producers, refiners, institutions, and promotional groups—who jointly contribute to the creation and marketing of distinctive resources. This form of collective governance, rooted in the La Tête de Moine region, enhances strategic coherence and facilitates adaptation to international markets. The study extends the RBV by highlighting the territorial embeddedness of strategic resources, demonstrating that such resources are often co-produced within a localized ecosystem. It thus offers new insights into the relationship between territorial identity, local collaboration, and global competitiveness in the internationalization of high-end agri-food products.

Olaf Kuhlke

Christopher R. Reutzel, Carrie A. Belsito, Jamie D. Collins

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to add to the small but growing body of research examining the influence of founder gender on new venture access to venture development programs. Design/methodology/approach – Hypotheses were tested utilizing a sample of 482 nascent technology ventures which applied for admittance into a venture development organization headquartered in the southern region of the United States from March 2004 through February 2016. Findings – Findings suggest that female-founded applicant ventures experience a higher likelihood of acceptance into venture development programs than male-founded applicant ventures. Results further suggest that social attention to gender equality reduces this effect for female-founded applicant ventures. Findings extend the understanding of the gendered nature of high-technology venturing and venture development organizations. Research limitations/implications – The findings of this study may not generalize to new ventures operating in other contexts (e.g., non-U.S., low-tech, and other venture development programs). Additionally, this study's design and data limitations do not allow for the establishment of causality or address founder motivations to apply for acceptance into venture development programs. Originality/value – This study adds to empirical findings regarding the influence of founder gender on new venture acceptance into venture development programs by developing and testing competing hypotheses. This study also extends extant research by examining the moderating effect of social attention to gender equality on the hypothesized relationships between founder gender and acceptance into venture development programs.

Jorge Arteaga-Fonseca, Yi (Elaine) Zhang, Per Bylund

Purpose – In this paper, the authors suggest that Central Americans can use entrepreneurship to solve economic uncertainty in their home country and that entrepreneurship can contribute to reducing the number of undocumented migrants to the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The authors first illustrate the context of Central American illegal migration to the USA from a transitional entrepreneurship perspective, the authors address the economic drivers of illegal migration from Central America, which results in marginalization in the USA. Second, the authors build a theoretical model that suggests that Central Americans can improve their entrepreneurial abilities through the entrepreneurial cognitive adjustment mechanism. Findings – Central Americans at risk of illegally migrating to the USA have high entrepreneurial aptitudes. Entrepreneurship can help them avoid the economic uncertainty that drives Central Americans to illegally migrate to the USA and become part of a marginalized community of undocumented immigrants. This conceptual paper introduces an entrepreneurial cognitive adjustment mechanism as a tool for Central Americans to reshape their personalities and increase their entrepreneurial abilities in their home countries. In particular, entrepreneurial intentions reshape the personality characteristics of individuals (in terms of high agreeableness and openness to experiences, as well as low neuroticism) through the entrepreneurial cognitive adjustment mechanism, which consists of reflective action in sensemaking, cognitive frameworks in pattern recognition and coping in positive affect. Originality/value – This paper studies Central Americans at risk of illegal migration using the lens of transitional entrepreneurship, which advances the understanding of the antecedents to marginalized immigrant communities in the USA and suggests a possible solution for this phenomenon. Besides, the authors build a cognitive mechanism to facilitate the transitional process starting from entrepreneurial intention to reshaping individuals' personality, which further opens individuals' minds to entrepreneurial opportunities. Since entrepreneurial intention applies the same way to all entrepreneurs, the authors' aim of constructing the entrepreneurial intention unfolding process will go beyond transitional entrepreneurship and contribute to intention-action knowledge generation (Donaldson et al., 2021). Moreover, the conceptual study contributes to public policy such that international and local agencies can better utilize resources and implement long-term solutions to the drivers of illegal migration from Central America to the USA.

Jonatas Dutra Sallaberry, Isabel Martínez-Conesa, Leonardo Flach

Organizations must constantly try to prevent losses resulting from unforeseen events and fraud. Whistleblowing has emerged as the most efficient mechanism for detecting such risks, but this phenomenon has not yet been studied in SMEs. This research seeks to analyze the relationships between attitudinal, normative, and control beliefs on the whistleblowing of accounting professionals, contrasting the behavior between small and large accounting firms from the perspective of the Theory of Planned Behavior. By using the structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method on a sample of 559 Brazilian accounting professionals, the analysis shows that an individual’s perceptions and characteristics influence their whistleblowing practices depending on firm size. SME accountants are directly and negatively influenced by family management and control beliefs, but are positively influenced by the moderation of attitudinal beliefs and by the risks of the scenario.

Jonathan Kuuskoski

Book Review of Can Music Make You Sick? Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition by Sally Anne Gross & George Musgrave (University of Westminster Press, 2020)

Howard E. Van Auken, Mohammad Fotouhi Ardakani, Shawn Carraher et al.

COVID-19 is affecting the development of the global economy and threatening the survival of SMEs worldwide. In light of the current situation, this paper examines the factors affecting product and process innovation in SMEs during the COVID-19 crisis. We carried out a simple random sample of 185 SME entrepreneurs in Ardakan, Iran, using a multivariate regression analysis. The results showed that experience is one of the most important factors affecting innovation. Organization size and age were negatively associated with process innovation during the current crisis. Moreover, the findings reveal that training to facilitate cooperation as well as higher commitment to R&D can lead to greater innovation. An important conclusion is that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, government efforts to encourage SMEs to create new products helped them to withstand the crisis. The study suggests that, during the COVID-19 crisis, embracing innovation as a core organizational value helped SMEs to remain competitive.

I. A. Imanbay

The article considers the foreign experience of financial regulation of small and medium-sized businesses. Given the entry of the Republic of Kazakhstan into the world economy, the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the country will lead to active participation and assistance from the state. That is, in many countries today, much attention is paid to addressing issues related to the stability and efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, it is of particular interest to study the experience of foreign developed countries in supporting the development of small and medium-sized businesses. Taking this knowledge into account, it is necessary to determine measures and prospects for improving this area of activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The EU has a well-established infrastructure for supporting small and medium-sized businesses, for example, all EU member states have a well-developed network of both public and private financial regulation organizations for the development and support of small and medium-sized businesses. In the countries under consideration, many of the same features of state support systems can be noted. All this is due to the influence of globalization processes and the activity of organizations. In this regard, considering the experience of foreign countries is very important and most appropriate.

María Luisa Saavedra García, María Elena Camarena Adame

El objetivo de esta investigación consiste en caracterizar la capacitación en las empresas lideradas por mujeres y determinar si existe relación con las características de la empresa y la empresaria. Para ello, se aplicó un cuestionario directo estructurado a una muestra de 272 empresarias de la Ciudad de México. Los principales hallazgos del análisis exploratorio realizado muestran que la mayoría de las empresarias consideran importante la capacitación, sin embargo sólo la mitad se han capacitado, siendo el promedio anual de horas de capacitación 45. Además, únicamente una tercera parte ha implementado programas de capacitación para sus empleados y las acciones de capacitación han sido principalmente en áreas operativas o de producción. Se ha encontrado también una relación significativa entre algunas características de las empresas y empresarias y la capacitación

Abrar Ali Mohammadusman Saiyed

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between leadership and business model innovation (BMI) in an entrepreneurial firm. From the literature, it was found that the role of a leader in BMI was unexplored. A research framework was created which was the replication of the model created showing the relationship between leadership and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative single in-depth case study was used to understand the effects of leadership in BMI. The case of an entrepreneurial firm in the graphic and animation education sector from India was chosen to test the research framework. The leader of Xplora Design Skools was observed closely, and he was interviewed multiple times. Findings – From the analysis, it was clear that, in this organization, the leader was a trigger for BMI through creating and influencing creativity and innovation in the organization. This case also shows that he was making tangible contribution to the work being done and motivating his employees. These initiatives show his influence on the process or execution of BMI. Originality/value – This is the first study explores the role of a leader in BMI in an entrepreneurial firm in emerging economy contexts like India.

Neville Vakharia

Current perspectives and approaches to cultural policy in the United States have overwhelmingly focused on the role of the intermediary – the public and private funders, the policymakers and governments, and the formalized cultural enterprises that all play a part in shaping policy in their own way. Very little has been written or studied about cultural policy from the perspective of the artists, those who are actually creating, performing, and producing the public goods and benefits that cultural policy seeks to shape. In Performing Policy, author Paul Bonin-Rodriguez provides a much-needed perspective on the artist's role both in cultural policy and in 21st-century American society. Bonin-Rodriguez draws extensively from his own experiences as a performing artist, teacher, and scholar to elevate the role of artists in cultural policy and to document their importance in being at the “policy table.” His book is timely and relevant, as expectations of artists' roles have been elevated. Artists are more frequently expected to participate in the creation of social, cultural, and economic capital, though effective policies and practices that collectively support this lofty role are yet to emerge. The author's frequent references to Pierre Bourdieu's forms of capital provide grounding for the reader in understanding the overall impact of artists in our communities.

Douglas R. Miller, Tera L. Galloway, Dustin B. Smith

In this article, we examine the impact of repeat interactions between VCs and underwriters. Past research has suggested that such interactions build trust and may contribute to more equitable treatment of issuing firms. We adopt an alternative perspective and suggest that these repeat interactions are characterized by reciprocal exchanges facilitated by opportunistic behavior from the VC. Our analysis demonstrates that VCs and underwriters interact in order to appropriate greater value from the IPO. This article provides a more complete understanding of repeat interactions between the VC and the underwriter by identifying characteristics of the relationship that have an impact on the value of the IPO.

Kanti V. Prasad, Kyle Ehrhardt, Yiyuan Liu et al.

Whether older or younger entrepreneurs may be better positioned to achieve performance outcomes for their ventures is a much debated question. Here, we draw on Galenson℉s theory of creativity to propose a contingency perspective for understanding the relationship between entrepreneur age and venture performance, suggesting that a venture’s level of innovativeness plays a moderating role. Results from a representative sample of 1,182 nascent entrepreneurs revealed mixed support for our hypotheses. While a negative relationship was found between entrepreneur age and performance for those developing “innovative” ventures, no relationship was found between entrepreneur age and performance for those developing “imitative” ventures.

Vikki Pollard, Emily Wilson

Creative and performing arts schools are increasingly facing the challenge of developing curricula to address an employability agenda in higher education. Arts entrepreneurship education is thought to address this need because it supports the unique nature of the work circumstances of creative and performing arts graduates. As an emerging area of research, arts entrepreneurship education faces the challenge of not only being relevant and important to creative and performing arts education but of being robust enough to contribute to a “paradigm shift” (Beckman, 2011, p. 29). With this in mind, this article attempts to clarify a recurring theme of arts entrepreneurship education, this being the development of an “entrepreneurial mindset.” We argue that if an entrepreneurial mindset is to be considered an essential aspect of arts entrepreneurship education, educators need to have a good understanding of what it means and how it might be taught. We examine data from four interviews with arts educators who have responsibility for teaching arts entrepreneurship in creative and performing arts schools. Their experiences enable us to clarify the meaning of an “entrepreneurial mindset” in a creative and performing arts context in higher education and to make suggestions about teaching and learning.

Philip Wolitzer

All of us have at some point thought how great it would be to be the boss of our own destiny and build a new business. For some it's a dream that won't stop until we try. In the old days, all it would have taken was two months’ rent after we built our leasehold improvements. Oh, how times have changed.

Miles Davis, Leyland M. Lucas

In the following interview, S.Truett offers his perspective on why focusing on principles is more important than focusing on profits and what he thinks it takes to succeed in business and in life.

Karl Wennberg

This article provides an account of how databases can be effectively used in entrepreneurship research. Improved quality and access to large secondary databases offer paths to answer questions of great theoretical value. I present an overview of theoretical, methodological, and practical difficulties in working with database data, together with advice on how such difficulties can be overcome. Conclusions are given, together with suggestions of areas where databases might provide real and important contributions to entrepreneurship research.

Matthew W. Rutherford, Sharon L. Oswald

This article focuses on what makes small businesses successful and whether consistent patterns of success can be identified.

Shawn Blau

Shawn Blau reviews David Allen's Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Lisa Morin

There are currently more than seventy paint-your-own pottery shops in the United States. Although the concept of such studios is fairly new in New England, they have been in existence on the West Coast for years.