Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

This paper seeks to further our understanding of how Moroccan ethnic minority women entrepreneurs in the Netherlands navigate and negotiate their entrepreneurial identities. Using postfeminism as an analytic device, we interrogate how gendered, ethnicised, and postfeminist discourses intersect in shaping the entrepreneurial identities of ethnic minority women entrepreneurs, drawing out the enabling and constraining factors...

As businesses become crucial to tackling the environmental, social, and economic challenges plaguing the world, there is still a lack of understanding about the specific role of entrepreneurs in poverty contexts to the sustainable development agenda. This paper addresses a central concern for entrepreneurship scholars and sustainable development advocates by revealing how women entrepreneurs are...

This paper questions the form of power attributed to migrant women entrepreneurs often emanating from their pre-established social positions, which limits their engagements to mere reaction and adaptation to dominant power holders (i.e. specific groups, contexts, structures). Drawing on the life stories of four migrant women entrepreneurs of Turkish origin in Sweden and the Netherlands,...

Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed through a deficit lens, emphasizing constraints such as financial limitations and weak institutions. While recent studies emphasize the potential of high-tech ventures in such settings, we still lack process-based accounts of how these ventures navigate these environments, particularly how their embeddedness unfold over time and how social, spatial...

The study explores how international enterprises navigate expansion in other markets simultaneously contributing to the regional development. Such international enterprises use digital platforms and disruptive technologies to transform their business models. Digital platform adoption and technological integration accelerate internationalization efforts and facilitate regional economic growth. A new theoretical framework is built upon international entrepreneurship orientation...

The everyday turn in entrepreneurship scholarship positions entrepreneurship as a social technology capable of driving regional change in turbulent times. We argue that the resilience of everyday entrepreneurs requires a reframing of firm growth. We explore this from the perspective of everyday artisan food entrepreneurs at farmers’ markets. Farmers’ markets as sites of grassroots resistance...

While religion is important to billions of people worldwide, research at its intersection with entrepreneurship is in its infancy. We add to this nascent stream through an abductive, qualitative study exploring how religious entrepreneurs address institutional voids to produce positive and/or negative outcomes through their ventures. Merging insights from structuration theory and religious agency from...

This study investigates how successors, by acting entrepreneurially, contribute to family firm transgenerational value creation. By focusing on the transgenerational value creation process, we investigate transgenerational entrepreneurship in family businesses under successor leadership. Employing a multiple case study approach, we analyse 15 Italian family firms, based on direct interviews, follow-ups, field observations, and approximately 300 historical...

Previous efforts to integrate culture and gender into a comprehensive theoretical framework for family support in entrepreneurship have fallen short. This study aims to clarify the influence of gender and culture on family support for women entrepreneurs in a patriarchal society. We use a qualitative approach, conducting 25 semi-structured interviews with Chinese women entrepreneurs who...

The growing subfield of religious entrepreneurship typically examines how faith impacts entrepreneurial outcomes, but much less work has examined the reverse. In this inductive study, we interview church planters, individuals engaged in forming a new religious organization that may or may not be connected to a broader Christian denomination, to understand how entrepreneurial action impacts...