Amanda Jasmine Williamson

University of Waikato · Waikato Management School

Despite its importance, our understanding of what entrepreneurial disappointment is, its attributions, and how it relates to depression is limited. Drawing on a corpus of 27,906 semi- anonymous online posts, we identified entrepreneurial disappointment, inductively uncovered its attributions and examined how depression differs between attributions....

This study investigates the antecedents of an entrepreneur’s day-level innovative behavior. Drawing on 2,420 data points from a 10-day experience sampling study with 121 entrepreneurs, we find that sleep quality is a precursor to an entrepreneur’s subsequent innovative behavior, in accordance with the effort-recovery model. Moreover, sleep quality...

This paper contributes to the emerging field of business transfer studies by providing qualitative, in-depth evidence on the role of intermediaries at different stages of the transfer process. Building on the resource-based view of the firm and agency theory, this paper identifies the specific resources different types of intermediaries offer small...

Purpose This study aims to investigate whether Brazilian companies have increased their reporting on biodiversity within the past decade and whether reporting practices are linked to the government's stance on environmental protection, media coverage and industry biodiversity risk. Design/methodology/approach Using content analysis and ordinary le...

How can entrepreneurs protect their wellbeing during a crisis? Does engaging agility (namely, opportunity agility and planning agility) in response to adversity help entrepreneurs safeguard their wellbeing? Activated by adversity, agility may function as a specific resilience mechanism enabling positive adaption to crisis. We studied 3,162 entrepre...

According to the ambidexterity literature, organizations tend to favor either exploration or exploitation activities. However, few studies have elucidated why this imbalance occurs, what the ideal balance is, and how to remedy any disparities between what organizations tend to do and what they should do. This study addresses this paucity by situati...

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Purpose Environmental uncertainty (EU) and firm size (FS) generate inertial forces that can push small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to emphasize either exploration or exploitation. In this article, the authors explore how structural (e.g. formal processes, control and discipline) and social (e.g. employee support and decision-making involvem...

Entrepreneurship can provide personal fulfillment but is uniquely poised to also provoke emotional suffering. Scholarly attention on negative moods and emotions (affect) in entrepreneurship has gained momentum, yet reviews to date have focused on the consequences of affect while our understanding of its antecedents remains fragmented. This neglect...

Entrepreneurial passion can influence individual well-being and improve firm-level outcomes, yet little is known about how to rapidly detect a change in passion from entrepreneurs' communication. We draw on advancements in both the passion literature and artificial intelligence (AI) methods, to capture entrepreneurial passion expressed for founding...

Entrepreneurship is uniquely stressful. Entrepreneurs often cannot avoid entrepreneurial stressors (e.g., uncertainty, workload, resource constraints) and these stressors can deter natural recovery activities (e.g., detachment and sleep). Yet, entrepreneurs may be able to lessen the negative impact of stress on their well-being, health, and product...

We outline the promise of topic modeling as a tool to build knowledge in social entrepreneurship surrounding the role gender plays in prosocial crowdfunding. By leveraging a sample of 340,956 prosocial microfinance campaigns drawn from Kiva, we examine how distinctiveness from the prototypical narrative in men's and women's campaigns relates to cro...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs including the selfemployed) account for 90% of businesses globally and provide 70% of employment worldwide. These businesses, typically entrepreneur led, are threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning that millions of jobs are at risk. This report presents insights from a global study conducted during the...

Process Management Programs (PMPs) rely heavily on the standardization of activities to improve organizational efficiency and reliability. Standardization, however, can lead to rigidity and inertia, which may eventually inhibit exploration and innovation. While scholars have provided cognitive and routine-based arguments to cope with this dilemma,...

Waking up on the innovative side of the bed: Daily entrepreneurial behaviour as a result of high activated moods and good sleep. We tested the influence of mood as a driver of entrepreneurs' innovative behaviour. Based on 2,420 experience sampling surveys collected over two working weeks, with 121 entrepreneurs, support is found for the use of a fo...

We utilise the circumplex model of affect, to argue that change in mood throughout the day predicts innovative work behaviour in entrepreneurs. High innovative work behaviour ensues if an entrepreneur experiences high activation negative-affect (NA) followed by high activation positive-affect (PA), or simply with an increase in the level of high ac...

2009 Research Report:: The notion of ‘balancing’ work and life has been discussed throughout a variety of academic disciplines since the twentieth century. Academic discourse on the topic emerged as women entered the work force in significant numbers. It has since grown in popularity as the need for work-life balance, as well as an understanding of...

This paper theorises that innovation by entrepreneurs is influenced by affective activation and valence. State affect (moods and emotions) has a proven link with behavioural and cognitive performance, yet evidence on this issue is seemingly fragmented, and further lacking from the entrepreneurship and innovation literatures. This article utilises t...

With growing evidence of the economic importance of successful business transfers and of small business owners being under-equipped to manage the processes themselves, the role of intermediaries has increasingly gained attention. This paper addresses the question of how intermediaries add value at different stages of the business transfer process....

There is increasing interest from governments around the world in the establishment of work-life balance polices – on the basis that they can help workers achieve happier and healthier lives, while assisting a firm " s performance. While initially the concept was developed for large firms, in recent times the scope of these types of policies has in...