Eli Gimmon

Tel-Hai Academic College | telhai · Department of Economics & Management

The COVID-19 pandemic posed an immediate existential threat to the survival of businesses worldwide, with a special threat facing smaller businesses, as they typically have fewer available resources or long-term survival-related reserves. We assessed 200 small business owners in Israel, right after the height of the pandemic, asking them to report...

The objective of this Special Issue was to highlight the challenges and opportunities in conceiving, designing, building, utilizing, and commercializing novel technology solutions aiming to impact individuals and communities around the world [...]

This study examines the characteristics of entrepreneurship in rural villages. It was conducted during ongoingeconomic and social crises in rural areas. We interviewed 23 entrepreneurs located in small rural communities, focusing on thedynamics between rural entrepreneurs and village communities. Four themes emerged from the content analysis: (1) T...

Purpose This study aims to present and test a model of small business owners’ adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the lenses of the resource-based view of the firm, upper echelon theory (UET) and positive psychology. Specifically, it examined the relationships between personal characteristics and strategic pivot behavior in a sample of...

Purpose This study explored the mediating effect of political embeddedness on the relationship between gender and performance of private enterprises in the emerging economy of China. Political embeddedness is examined in terms of personal characteristics of owners and their firm. Design/methodology/approach Secondary data were collected from the C...

Purpose This study aims to understand the necessity of entrepreneurship in a poor emerging economy, where the supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem is not in place. Design/methodology/approach In the years 2015 and 2019, this study survey first-time small-scale emerging entrepreneurs within the new entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cuba. Findings The r...

Purpose To better understand the emergence of small-scale entrepreneurial firms in the under-researched transition economy of Cuba. Design/methodology/approach Given the scarcity of reliable publicly available information and restrictions on private data collection in Cuba, in-depth interviews were conducted with a panel of small-scale entrepreneu...

Purpose This study aims to present multi-layered embeddedness and explore the main and interaction effects of political embeddedness on the performance of private enterprises in China. This study tests multi-layered embeddedness through interaction effects between three layers, namely, political, territorial and inter-firm embeddedness. Political e...

Prior studies presented conflicting findings on the effect of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) concentration on growth rate. A theoretical model of industrial organisation suggested that imperfect competition – having fewer competitors – yields a higher growth rate. This research explores this relationship theoretically and empirically as relate...

We examine how interlocking directorates influence innovation performance differentials between firms. Our study offers a new perspective of the effect of interlocking directorate ties upon innovation performance, focusing on network effects on interfirm performance. Using a sample of China’s listed companies for the period 2012–2016, we empiricall...

Purpose This study aims to examine the extent to which board size, the use of power by venture capital investors and entrepreneurs’ interpersonal tactics such as persuasion to sway board decisions, influence the long-term survival of start-ups. Design/methodology/approach This study used a mixed-methods approach. The quantitative part is based on...

We investigate monopoly profit under a new online tying strategy, namely sequential bundling. This method allows customers to buy additional products at discounted prices immediately after purchasing one or some of the available products. This strategy has been practiced by Walmart and others but has not been modelled to date. We use microeconomics...

OECD data show that in some countries the earnings of workers with tertiary vocational education are lower than those of workers with secondary education, in particular for the 25–34 years age group. Israel is one of those countries, and in this study we extend the analysis of this apparent anomaly using a quantitative methodology of multiple regre...

This paper discovers early indicators of very long term performance of high technology new ventures (HTNVs). We tracked the progress of a sample of 142 HTNVs founded at the Israeli government’s Technology Incubator Program (ITIP) in the 1990s through 2001, 2004, 2010 and 2018. The results demonstrate a surprisingly strong effect of early sales trac...

This paper explores the development of local small businesses in rural peripheral regions compared to businesses in urban settings, and the impact of the local business’ location and level of embeddedness on its growth, measured by the number of employees. The study was conducted using a mixed-method sequential methodology, with a quantitative surv...

This study focuses on changes over time in inter-firm cooperation of an export-oriented regional cluster within a Latin American emerging economy. The study was conducted in the Chilean salmon industry. A longitudinal study, collecting primary data from managers, was conducted over ten years. Unexpectedly, findings revealed that as the cluster matu...

This study explores differentiating factors in employment growth between young small and medium-sized enterprises in rural regions and their application in developing economies. We applied a mixed-method approach, including a survey of 155 new ventures in Israel, an economy whose rural regions exhibit similarities to those of less developed countri...

This introductory article presents an outline of the papers accepted for this special issue. The Guest Editors provide an overview of the work within industrial marketing where synthesis between economic geography and industrial marketing literature has occurred. A discussion of the most synthesised areas of economic geography is advanced and each...

We examined the role of personal resources alongside job characteristics, and demographic factors in burnout among educators in 2 samples with emphasis on the potential role of emotional intelligence (EI). In the first, based on the literature, we hypothesized that tenure, position, and education, alongside personality, EI, and the experience of st...

This research explores the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on SMEs located at core and peripheral regions, by focusing on a single dimension of EO: proactiveness. We conducted a quantitative study of 626 Israeli SMEs. Business growth, as measured by the rate of change in number of employees, was found to be significantly higher in the...

The relationship between education and economic growth has been studied extensively with the common thought that more education yields business growth. This study explores the different effects of business owners' vocational and academic education on their business growth as measured by the change in the number of employees in the firm. Using a sur...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the benefits of enriching higher education of entrepreneurship through mentoring potential entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach – Students in entrepreneurship classes were offered being mentors along with being mentored by professional senior staff in either one of two programmes designed...

Purpose – This study aims to focus on how companies operating in international food commodity markets can improve their long-term competitiveness and profitability upon financial pressure. Management can choose between generic strategies of either cost leadership or enhanced value adding by differentiation and innovative marketing strategies. The a...

This research explores the relationship between geographic proximity and the building of social capital and inter-firm cooperation in strategic marketing. By emphasizing social interactions and the building of social capital, we extend the research on industry clusters beyond traditional economic perspectives and factors motivating cooperation betw...

The purpose of this article is to describe a project that aims to foster active aging through entrepreneurial activities among older adults. The project establishes the feasibility of implementing an intervention program that assimilates the concept and capabilities of entrepreneurship among older adults and supports them while launching new ventur...

This paper reports the findings of the first academic study in Latin America, and one of the few in any emerging economy, to explore entrepreneurial perceptions and activity in peripheral geographic locations. A survey of experts included 139 respondents from three peripheral regions and two core regions in Chile. A key finding is that those locate...

This study explores common and different aspects of sustainability, in terms of survival and growth, between social and commercial ventures. The effects of nonhuman factors between a sample of social ventures and a sample of commercial ventures taken from the same environment in Israel were compared. Social ventures showed higher likelihood to surv...

Purpose This paper aims to focus on the perceived role of clusters in inter‐firm cooperation and social networks. Design/methodology/approach The study was carried out in a region of Latin America where limited research has been conducted in terms of inter‐firm relationships. Managers from three key natural resources‐based industries in Chile part...

Previous research in different countries found peripheral regions are weaker than core regions in terms of indicators related to founding new ventures. The research proposition of this study is whether entrepreneurs located far away from core regions perceive difficulties in founding new ventures. Based on the global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM)...

The present paper deals with the perceptions about market conditions and public policies related to enhance entrepreneurial activities at regional levels. This is the first academic research at regional level in Chile and one of the few in Latin America to study this issue. The main results seem to indicate that entrepreneurs who are peripherally l...

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in many countries. This research revives the debate about specific regional policies designed to foster local new business creation, and the entrepreneurial framework conditions needed at the regional level for emerging regions such as Latin America. We applied o...

The inherent conflicts between venture capital investors and entrepreneurs are reflected in perception of trust and causes for strategic reorientation.

The effect of founder characteristics in attracting external investment and enhancing survival of new high-technology ventures is explored using human capital theory and signalling theory. We test the effect of founder characteristics on external investment in and survival of new high-technology ventures by tracking a random sample of 193 high-tech...

This study looks at the factors that influence the development of marketing co-operation among cluster-based firms. It examines data from SMEs operating within the salmon farming industry in two different regions: Scotland and Chile. Analyses indicate that informal social networks help explain the observed relationship between geographical proximit...

Within the broad discussion about factors and effects on business performance, the role of business strategy is never underestimated, specifically in new ventures. Investments are made based on a series of parameters, where business strategy takes a major role in the decision-making process. Yet, the uncertainties that accompany the high technology...

Radical strategic change, a common event in high technology new ventures, presents a conflict between potential opportunity and the risk of departing from a planned and approved strategy. This study explores investors' perspectives regarding RSC in their portfolio companies, based on interviews of 13 private investors who are active venture capital...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to is focus on the role of geographic co-location in the development of firm-level marketing externalities. Design/methodology/approach – A mail survey and quantitative analysis were used to examine the effect of co-location on externalities. Fast growing salmon farming clusters in Scotland and Chile were chos...

This research examines factors that influence the development of marketing cooperation among cluster-based firms in different regions in the world. Theorists have consistently demonstrated the role and importance of economic externalities, such as knowledge spillovers, within industrial clusters. Less research attention has been paid to the investi...

Given the contribution of Schumpeterian entrepreneurship to technological progress and well-being, the accuracy of investment decisions by venture capitalists is a societal issue. Venture capitalists find the human capital of entrepreneurs difficult to assess. This paper employs instrumental value theory to assess the impact of different human capi...

This study note explores the major causes that stimulate Radical Strategic Change (RSC) in Israeli high technology new ventures. It explores the factors that make RSC successful in these ventures, based on the Resource-Based-View (RBV). A multiple case study methodology was applied on four Israeli-based start-up companies that experienced both an u...

Regional clusters have been the basis for global competitiveness in smaller countries that may lack the domestic market necessary for growth, and for companies in developing economies with weaker infrastructure and limited supporting industries. For this reason, this study explores more specifically the development of co-marketing activities and co...

This paper deals with the roles of geographic proximity, social networking, and regional culture-structures in triggering cooperation in marketing activities. The role of regional clusters in the growth of firms has been a key research theme. Our study compares marketing externalities and practices in clusters of three key natural resources-based i...

Purpose – This research aims to deal with the interdisciplinary field of teamwork in entrepreneurial ventures. Its purpose is to advance the knowledge of investors' perspective with regard to high technology entrepreneurial teams. Prior studies suggest that teamwork affects new venture performance. However, only little evidence with conflicting con...

This paper seeks to explain an unexpected result of a previous quantitative study which suggested suboptimal evaluation by investors of the human capital of first time high tech venture founders. A literature review revealed two possible reasons for this finding: biases/heuristics and signalling. Six investors across three countries (one venture ca...

Purpose To investigate the influence of national or sub‐national culture and company size on inter‐firm cooperation in marketing among cluster‐based firms, with specific respect to the salmon‐farming industry. Design/methodology/approach Case study analysis of data collected from semi‐structured personal interviews with senior managers in two samp...

Governmental policies in many countries are designed to boost and support entrepreneurship in peripheral regions (Lerner 2009). This paper analyzes the perceptions about entrepreneurship framework conditions (Levie & Autio 2008) at regional level in Chile. We applied one of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s methodologies, the National Experts S...

Radical Strategic Change (RSC) is not a rare event in high technology new ventures, due to their rapidly changing environment. This research explores investors' perspective regarding RSC in their portfolio companies, using a qualitative study by interviewing a variety of 13 financial investors from 7 countries. Findings present three approaches tak...

We report the reflections of five venture capitalists and five business angels drawn from US, the UK, and Israel on their evaluation criteria for early stage high tech investments and their interpretations of selected prior research related to evaluation of founder's human capital. We found that these early stage high tech investors tended to focus...

An extensive amount of research deals with clusters and industrial districts, however only limited stu dies explored differences in same clusters over time. Sc hutjens and Stam (2003) called for more detailed re search on variations in business networks and in particula r its dynamics over time. Thereafter, the purpose o f this study is to compare...