Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Management Research Watch

🏆 TOP 3 MOST READ IN MAY 🏆 🌟 Learn more about the complexities of #Prototyping in #Entrepreneurship, the impact of #EntrepreneurshipAsScientistics approach to #DecisionMaking, and the interplay of #EntrepreneurialOrientation and #OrganizationalErrorManagement from the Top 3 #MostRead new publications shared on #EOMResearchWatch in May. 🥉🛠️Steffen Paust, Steffen Korsgaard & Claus Thrane (2024) Entrepreneurial Prototyping: The Role of Purpose, Prototype Recycling, and Skills Bricolage (Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal) Download Open Access: https://lnkd.in/dzDH7TYm 🥈🔍Andrea Coali, Alfonso Gambardella & Elena Novelli (2024) Scientific decision-making, project selection and longer-term outcomes (#ResearchPolicy) Download Open Access: https://lnkd.in/dvrZzzxU 🥇💭 Andreas Kuckertz, Cagri Bulut & Leif Brändle (2024) Unobserved heterogeneity in firm performance: The alignment of entrepreneurial orientation and organizational error management culture (Journal of Business Research) Download Open Access: https://lnkd.in/dpDmE9nJ ---- 🌟 Learn more about the complexities of #Prototyping in #Entrepreneurship, the impact of #EntrepreneurshipAsScientistics approach to #DecisionMaking, and the interplay of #EntrepreneurialOrientation and #OrganizationalErrorManagement from the three most read new publications shared on #EOMResearchWatch in May. Keywords: #EntrepreneurialPrototyping #ScientificApproach #FirmPerformance #EO #ErrorManagement Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark Institut for Erhverv og Bæredygtighed | SDU Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University Aarhus University Cerved SDA Bocconi Università Bocconi Bayes Business School University of London University of Hohenheim Yaşar Üniversitesi (Yaşar University)

📚 New Study on Rejected Crowdlending and Self-Employment Douglas Cumming & Ahmed Sewaid, PhD CFA (2024) Crowdlending, Self-Employment, and Entrepreneurial Performance Link to #AvailableAccess: https://lnkd.in/eUH-FQGR Abstract: Access to finance is crucial for sustaining entrepreneurial activity. Elaborating on resource dependence theory, we argue that the adverse impact of a loan rejection by a crowdlending platform is more severe than that of a rejection by a traditional financial institution. The data indicate that a failed crowdlending loan attempt is associated with a 14.80% increase in the probability of transitioning out of self-employment. This effect is 1.62 times that of revolving lines of credit and 3.08 times that of non-revolving lines of credit. We highlight that these effects are amplified for marginal borrowers and credit- and income-constrained entrepreneurs. In addition, we show that successful crowdlending enhances self-employed individuals’ future income and future access to traditional lines of credit. Implications for policy and practice are discussed. Keywords: #Crowdlending #Entrepreneurship #Fintech #SelfEmployment Florida Atlantic University - College of Business Florida Atlantic University Birmingham Business School University of Birmingham Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business & Entrepreneurship - MBSC

🇺🇳 New Study on Wrongdoing and SDG in Journal of Business Ethics Dr Irina Heim & Dr Lily Mergaliyeva (2024) Organizational Wrongdoing within the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: An Integrative Review Link to #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/eG46cFiG Abstract: Addressing organizational wrongdoing (OW) is crucial for sustainable development. However, there seems to be a lack of structured analysis of this concept within the realm of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). This study aims to map the economic, business, and management literature on OW in relation to the SDGs using metadata extracted from 374 journal articles indexed in the Web of Science database for the period 2000–2023. This study highlights the need for a more systematic approach to understanding complex OW phenomena in the sustainable context. It proposes the foundation for a novel conceptual framework and suggests future research directions. Additionally, this study emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary research for developing comprehensive strategies that align organizational practices with sustainable development objectives. Keywords: #OrganizationalWrongdoing #UN #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDG #OrganizationalMisconduct #UnitedNations Henley Business School University of Reading West Kazakhstan State University

📚 New Study on Reputation and Crowdfunding in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Jeffrey A. Chandler, Marcus Wolfe & Pyayt Oo (2024) Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance Link to #AvailableAccess: https://lnkd.in/e4CsgZrM Abstract: Drawing from expectancy violations theory, we examine the effect of entrepreneurs’ claims about their ventures’ capability reputation and character reputation on crowdfunding performance. We propose that capability reputation and character reputation claims benefit crowdfunding performance—but only up to a point—until crowdfunding backers begin to perceive it as over-claiming (inverted-U relationship). We also suggest the effect of entrepreneurs’ capability and character reputation claims are highly contingent upon whether the entrepreneur has launched a commercial or social campaign. Our analysis of 68,899 crowdfunding campaigns strongly supports our theoretical predictions. Keywords: #ExpectancyViolationsTheory #Crowdfunding #Entrepreneur #MultipleReputations #CapabilityReputation #CharacterReputation University of North Texas G. Brint Ryan College of Business University of North Texas The University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business

📚 New Study on Learning from Failures in JPIM Journal of Product Innovation Management Xiangming (Tommy) Tao & Deniz Ucbasaran (2024) How does failure normalization foster product innovativeness in new product development? The role of passion and learning Link to #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/e2GDJcXb Practitioner Points: ▶️ Promote culture that embraces failure as a learning opportunity rather than a setback to foster willingness to experiment and innovate in the NPD process. ▶️ Select project leaders with a passion for inventing. These are more inclined to learn from failures, thereby enhancing the innovativeness of NPD projects in failure-tolerant environments. ▶️ Develop work environment that both normalizes failure & values passion for inventing, enabling ventures to make the most of learning from failure. Abstract: Tolerating failure has gained recognition as a crucial catalyst for product innovation. However, there is a limited understanding of how and under what conditions project leaders' perceptions of failure normalization—the norms regarding failure in their work environment—can enhance product innovativeness in the context of new product development (NPD). Drawing upon sensemaking and motivation theories, we propose a moderated mediation model to address this research gap. Data were collected from 181 high-tech ventures in China, with responses gathered at three different time points from matched respondents. Utilizing moderated path analysis and the Monte Carlo method, our findings reveal that failure normalization primarily fosters product innovativeness by facilitating learning from failure. Importantly, this positive effect is contingent upon the project leader's passion for inventing. A profound passion for inventing significantly enhances NPD leaders' motivation to learn from failures, thereby acting as a pivotal factor that determines whether failure normalization promotes or impedes product innovativeness. This research thus elucidates the previously inconclusive relationship between failure normalization and product innovativeness as presented in the literature. It underscores the dual importance of organizational culture (specifically, failure normalization) and individual motivation (specifically, the passion for inventing) in driving learning and innovation within the NPD process. The practical implications of these findings are significant for high-tech ventures seeking to enhance their NPD outcomes. Specifically, cultivating an organizational culture that perceives failure as an opportunity for learning, coupled with recognizing and fostering the passion for inventing among NPD project leaders, can boost NPD product innovativeness. Keywords: #FailureNormalization #LearningFromFailure #NewProductDevelopmentProject #PassionForInventing #ProductInnovativeness University of Sussex Business School University of Sussex University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

📚 New Work on Absorptive Capacity and Embodied Technological Change in Technological Forecasting and Social Change Cattani Luca, Francesco Savoia & Ludovico Bullini Orlandi (2024) The kind of things that money just can’t buy: The role of potential absorptive capacity in enhancing firm-level employment growth Link to #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/eUyECySC Highlights ▶️ Focus on the impact of embodied technological change (ETC) on employment ▶️ New firm-level evidence of the impact of ETC on employment growth ▶️ Absorptive capacity moderates the effect of ETC on employment growth. ▶️ Empirical test under different firm contingencies (size and technology intensity) Abstract This study provides new firm-level evidence on the impact of the technological change generated by investments in instrumental goods on employment growth. We posit that firms' potential absorptive capacity moderates this effect by leveraging the embodied technological change (ETC) contained in these goods. Testing our hypothesis on administrative linked employer-employee (LEED) data for a sample of 6.120 manufacturing firms over 2008–2017, we find that ETC investments have an overall positive and significant effect on employment growth. Such an effect depends on firms' technological intensity and size class, with a larger impact on high-tech and large firms. However, higher levels of potential absorptive capacity increase positively and significantly the effect for low-tech and SMEs in a way that is more compatible with a conditional role than a moderating one. Our findings imply that regional policies should consider firm-specific investments targeted to human capital accumulation and collaborative partnerships to maximize the occupational impact of ETC investments. Keywords #Innovation #Employment #PotentialAbsorptiveCapacity #TechnologicalIntensity #LEED University of Parma Università degli Studi di Parma Università di Bologna Yunus Social Business Centre - University of Bologna

♻️ New Study on the Transition to Circular Economies in International Small Business Journal David Audretsch & Antje Fiedler (2024) Bringing the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship to Circular Economies: Knowledge and Values in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Link to #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/dgsitCEa Highlights: ▶️ Examines how knowledge spillovers between entrepreneurs and incumbents can fuel the transition to circular economies. ▶️ Highlights the important role of entrepreneurs in validating circular knowledge and creating 'reverse' knowledge spillovers from entrepreneurs to established firms. ▶️ Such reverse spillovers are critical for fostering more sustainable and inclusive entrepreneurial societies. Abstract: Transitioning from a linear economy to a circular economy (CE) supports the realisation of societal values towards more sustainable development. This article identifies mechanisms by which circularity can be embedded in entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) through the flow of relevant knowledge and values. It presents a dynamic model that illustrates how reverse knowledge spillovers from entrepreneurs can complement traditional technological knowledge spillovers from incumbents, ultimately advocating for CE values and validating circular knowledge. The validated circular knowledge, in turn, alters the knowledge filter of incumbents, leading to shifts in their research and development (R&D) focus and their willingness to embrace new knowledge. This symbiotic relationship of knowledge spillovers between circular start-ups and incumbents can significantly enhance the motivation of participants in EEs to adopt CE values and leverage circular knowledge. Overall, the article shows how knowledge spillovers can facilitate a wider adoption of circular knowledge and CE values within EEs. Keywords: #Entrepreneurship #CircularEconomy #KnowledgeSpillover #Sustainability #SmallBusinessResearch #ISBJ #Startups #EntrepreneurialEcosystem #KnowledgeFilter Indiana University The University of Auckland Business School

📚New Study on Resourcefulness in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Katharina Scheidgen, Franziska Günzel-Jensen & Simon Schmidt (2024) Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness Throughout Crisis Link to #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/d3WzyZdj Abstract: By following 17 entrepreneurial ventures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we show how entrepreneurial ventures can resourcefully mobilize resources throughout crisis—when resource constraints and opportunities for resource mobilization shift erratically. In a period marked by significant resource constraints, a temporary field emerged, centered around societal consequences of the crisis and temporarily offered opportunities for resource mobilization. We identified two types of resourcefulness, both of which were successful immediately after the crisis struck. Surprisingly, only leveraging the temporary field enabled resource mobilization throughout the crisis and fostered venture survival, while, despite initial successes, absorbing the temporary field did not. Keywords: #EntrepreneurialResourcefulness #Crisis #ResourceMobilization #QualitativeResearch #InstitutionalTheory The University of Göttingen Aarhus University Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University

🎓 New Study on Academic Knowledge Spillovers in R&D Management Julian Schenkenhofer, Joern Block & Silvio Vismara (2024) University knowledge spillovers and innovation of hidden champions: evidence from Italy Link to #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/gyf-QzzX Abstract: Hidden champions (HCs) are niche market leaders and innovation is key for them to stay competitive and retain market and technology leadership. While prior research has stressed the importance of customers and internal R&D as sources of innovation for HC, we know little about the role of universities in this regard. Using a knowledge spillover lens, we investigate how the regional proximity of HCs to universities influences their innovation output. Drawing on a sample of 124 Italian HCs, we show that HCs located in proximity to universities have higher innovation output as compared to other HCs. The size of the spillover effect depends on university characteristics and thus both on the size and type of the knowledge base. Our study contributes to a better understanding of the innovation process of HCs and how they interact with universities in a regional innovation ecosystem. Keywords: #HiddenChampions #KnowledgeSpillover #AcademicSpillover #UniversityInnovation #Innovation #Italy Università degli Studi di Bergamo Universität Trier

📚 New Study on Risks of Vulnerable Narcissism in Journal of Business Ethics Susanne Braun, Birgit Schyns, Yuyan Zheng & Robert Lord (2024) When Vulnerable Narcissists Take the Lead: The Role of Internal Attribution of Failure and Shame for Abusive Supervision Link to #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/dqYbeuAb Highlights (from Susanne Braun): ▶️ So you'd think that the grandiose, self-loving type of narcissist causes trouble at work, right? Maybe... ▶️ But wait, there's another form of narcissism that we know about from the clinical and personality literature. ▶️ In three studies, we show that leaders with higher vulnerable narcissism were more problematic due to their abusive supervisory tendencies. Abstract: Research to date provides only limited insights into the processes of abusive supervision, a form of unethical leadership. Leaders’ vulnerable narcissism is important to consider, as, according to the trifurcated model of narcissism, it combines entitlement with antagonism, which likely triggers cognitive and affective processes that link leaders’ vulnerable narcissism and abusive supervision. Building on conceptualizations of aggression as a self-regulatory strategy, we investigated the role of internal attribution of failure and shame in the relationship between leaders’ vulnerable narcissism and abusive supervision. We found across three empirical studies with supervisory samples from Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) that vulnerable narcissism related positively to abusive supervision (intentions), and supplementary analyses illustrated that leaders’ vulnerable (rather than grandiose) narcissism was the main driver. Study 1 (N = 320) provided correlational evidence of the vulnerable narcissism-abusive supervision relationship and for the mediating role of the general proneness to make internal attributions of failure (i.e., attribution style). Two experimental studies (N = 326 and N = 292) with a manipulation-of-mediator design and an event recall task supported the causality and momentary triggers of the internal attribution of failure. Only Study 2 pointed to shame as a serial mediator, and we address possible reasons for the differences between studies. We discuss implications for future studies of leaders’ vulnerable narcissism as well as ethical organizational practices. Keywords: #AbusiveSupervision #InternalAttribution #Leadership #Shame #VulnerableNarcissism Durham University Business School Durham University NEOMA Business School Surrey Business School, University of Surrey University of Surrey