Journal of Business Venturing, September 2017
Axel Buchner | Abdulkadir Mohamed | Armin Schwienbacher
We explore the impact of industry and stage diversification on risk and return of VC funds.
We find that diversification affects downside and upside risk differently.
Deviation from previous diversification choices affects negatively performance.
Interpretivism may be more appropriate for studying entrepreneurship than realism.
Realism runs into problems of paradigm incommensurability, whereas interpretivism does not.
Entrepreneurship is the intentional pursuit of new economic value.
An interpretivist research program for entrepreneurship is introduced.
Lori DiVito | René Bohnsack
An examination of the entrepreneurial orientation and sustainability orientation of sustainable entrepreneurs.
Identification of three sustainability decision making profiles (singular, flexible and holistic) with distinct prioritization logic (nested, ordered and aligned, respectively).
Examine how different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation correspond to the sustainability decision making profiles.
Entrepreneurs make sense of their identity through metaphor
The modality of drawing allows entrepreneurs to reflectively and critically create metaphors of their experience
Visual metaphors allow entrepreneurs to express the complex and often contradictory nature of their entrepreneurial existence.
Kilian J. Moser | Andranik Tumasjan | Isabell M. Welpe
We study the importance of startups' employer attributes for perceived employment attractiveness from the applicants' perspective.
Applicants' entrepreneurial behaviors and background characteristics affect the importance of different employer attributes of new ventures.
Our results contribute to human resource management in general and startup employee recruitment research in particular.
Robert Strohmeyer | Vartuhi Tonoyan | Jennifer E. Jennings
This study examines whether, how and why gender affects firm innovativeness.
Our theorizing draws upon and extends jack-of-all trades (JAT) theory.
We find significant (but not invariant) gender gaps in innovation breadth and depth.
The gaps are partially mediated by gender differences in degree of JAT resemblance.
Gendered workforce experiences contribute to females less closely resembling a JAT.
Greg Molecke | Jonatan Pinkse
This paper examines how social entrepreneurs handle the pressure to measure social impact with formal measurement methods.
The findings show that social entrepreneurs tend to use bricolage for social impact measurement.
In creating their social accounts, social enterprises combine material and ideational bricolage.
Social entrepreneurs use delegitimization of existing social impact methodologies to create space for their bricolaged accounts.
Per L. Bylund | Matthew McCaffrey
We investigate the relationship between entrepreneurs and uncertainty.
We clarify the structure of entrepreneurial action with respect to institutions.
We analyze entrepreneurs' inability to deal with regime uncertainty.
We explicate how entrepreneurs deal with institutional uncertainty.
We identify an entrepreneurial rationale for political influence-seeking.