Researching small firms and entrepreneurship: Past, present and future

By Robert Blackburn, Anne Kovalainen. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Sex, Gender, and Decisions at the Family → Work Interface (2010, background): “…a business have been attributed to many factors, including demographic characteristics, personality traits, cognitive factors and biases, career satisfiers, and social networks (Blackburn & Kovalainen, 2009; Busenitz et al., 2003; Hisrich, LanganFox, & Grant, 2007; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000).”
Risk management capability building in SMEs: A social capital perspective (2013, background): “This approach was necessary to ‘get close’ to the actors’ perspectives on the complex processes of network interaction (Blackburn and Kovalainen, 2009; Curran and Blackburn, 2001).”
THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2010, background): “Blackburn and Kovalainen (2009) call for more critical perspectives in researching small firms and entrepreneurship and this paper adopts such an approach when considering how creativity impacts on entrepreneurship.”
Information processing and strategic decision-making in small and medium-sized enterprises: The role of human and social capital in attaining decision effectiveness (2013, background): “The findings support the longstanding practical and research tradition that it is important for entrepreneurs to network in order to get access to clients, resources and other opportunities (Blackburn and Kovalainen, 2009; Lee, 2009).”
Distinguishing micro-businesses from SMEs: a systematic review of growth constraints (2016, background): “The role of SMEs as engines of economic growth is widely acknowledged, having been a focus of academic research and policy making for decades (Curran, 2000; Blackburn and Kovalainen, 2009; Fuller-Love, 2006; Yu, 2001).”
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: what has been learned? (2019, background): “Entrepreneurship research has evolved rapidly since its origins (Blackburn and Kovalainen 2009; Carlsson et al. 2013).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and export intensity: Examining the interplay of organizational learning and innovation (2015, background): “Both organizational learning and innovation have recently been shown to have a close connection with EO (Blackburn & Kovalainen, 2009; Cope, 2003; Ireland & Webb, 2007; Wang, 2008) and export intensity (Knight & Cavusgil, 2004).”
Dynamic Capabilities, Innovation and Organizational Learning: Interrelations and Impact on Firm Performance (2015, background): “…might be noticed that today researchers are returning to the issue of organizational learning in order to investigate the growth of organization aimed at the innovation development and increasing competitiveness (Cope, 2005; Franco & Haase, 2009; Wang & Chugh, 2014; Blackburn & Kovalainen, 2009).”
Reconsidering capitalism: the promise of social innovation and social entrepreneurship? (2013, background): “This range of methods responds to calls for greater methodological multiplicity and an awareness of the importance of temporal dimensions when researching entrepreneurship (Blackburn and Kovalainen, 2009; Gartner and Birley, 2002; Grant and Perren, 2002; Jennings et al., 2005; Zahra, 2007).”