This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Estern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding th sources of enterpreneurship. A relativ demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27000 adults...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

Following literature that already reframes entrepreneurship as a social change activity, we consider the change potential of entrepreneurial narratives in crowdfunding pitches of predominantly female-run ventures. In particular, we position the community driven phenomenon crowdfunding as a...

This research explored the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) owner-managers' attitudes toward digital media and stakeholder engagement. Its research methodology integrated measures from the technological acceptance model, the pace of technological innovation and corporate social...

Research into Crowdfunding (CF) rarely uses a holistic view on the positioning of relevant actors and their activities. We are looking at how crowdfunding platforms (CFP) as focal actors exert influence to create and delineate the field and apply an ecosystem perspective by studying structure...

Research on social entrepreneurship has taken an increasing interest in issues pertaining to ideology. In contrast to existing research which tends to couch ‘ideology' in pejorative terms (i.e. something which needs to be overcome), this paper conceives ideology as a key mechanism for...

Opportunity recognition (OR) is at the very heart of entrepreneurship. However, research on OR in the context of social entrepreneurship is still in its early stages. First, this article identifies, codifies and analyses OR-relevant articles on social entrepreneurship (SE) through the lens of...

Research into Crowdfunding (CF) rarely uses a holistic view on the role of relevant actors and their activities. We thus demonstrate this gap and need from literature and apply an ecosystem perspective to study the influence of crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) as focal actors on the field from a...

An increasing commercial focus on digital business transformation is leading corporate venture capital (CVC) investors to the challenge of how to deal with this trend. Much research has been conducted on digital business transformation and CVC independently. However, the interaction between the...