6 articles in this issue
Martin Angerer, Thomas Niemand, Sascha Kraus, Ferdinand Thies
Financial constraints are a striking difficulty of entrepreneurial ventures in the early stages of their development. Recently, emerging crowdinvesting platforms try to fill this finance gap by involving an anonymous crowd into the funding process. Due to... see more
Raj V. Mahto, Saurabh Ahluwalia, Dmitry Khanin, Steven T Walsh
Advancing prior research on the key determinants of firm financial performance, we identify the internal performance-enhancing strategies (i.e., raising employee commitment and investment in employee training) and external performance-enhancing strategies... see more
Jennifer M Sequeira, Kelly P Weeks, Myrtle P Bell, SherRhonda R Gibbs
Although human resource managers have long realized the impact of diversity on organizational outcomes, most of the research to date has focused on large organizations. Very little consideration has been given to small firms in the United States with fewe... see more
Mahendra Joshi, Vikas Anand
This study examines how small business owners’ perceived uncertainty about their environment interacts with the complexity of their organization’s identity to explain their information seeking from external sources. We hypothesize that perceived uncertai... see more
Pouria Nouri, Abdollah Ahmady
Entrepreneurial marketing is a useful entrepreneurial strategy to achieve certain goals. This is mostly true for nascent entrepreneurs running small businesses for two main reasons. On the one hand, these entrepreneurs encounter various kinds of resource ... see more