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Introduction
Prof. Dr. Frank Janssen works at the Louvain School of Management , Université Catholique de Louvain. Frank does research in Entrepreneurship.
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September 2002 - present
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Research has sought to better understand the antecedents of ethical decision-making, especially in businesses. Yet, researchers found no clear relationship between religion or religiosity and ethics. This study contributes to research on religiosity and ethics by examining the impact of religiosity on business ethics among university students. Usin...
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How can religion be so central to the everyday lives of most people around the globe yet receive so little attention in entrepreneurship research? The overwhelming response to the call for papers in this special issue of Small Business Economics on the relationship between religion and entrepreneurship suggests that it is not...
Entrepreneurs have often been considered as either belonging to the necessity or to the opportunity category based on their motivations when they started their organization. However, the necessity/opportunity entrepreneurship dichotomy is too limiting and the boundary between opportunity and necessity is certainly not as clear-cut as it is assumed....
The combined phenomenon of entrepreneurship with the pursuit of sustainable development goals is commonly referred to as sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) (Shepherd and Patzelt, 2011 ; Anand et al., 2021). As an increasingly important subfield of entrepreneurship research, SE is gaining importance (Muñoz et al., 2018; Gast et al., 2017).
However,...
Les contextes dans lesquels naissent, croissent, se développent ou disparaissent les PME ont connu d’importantes mutations au cours des dernières années. Les défis que doivent relever les entrepreneurs et les PME se renouvellent rapidement tout en présentant des enjeux nouveaux qui ne peuvent pas toujours être éclairés brillamment par les connaissa...
Drawing on self-leadership theory, this study investigates the influence of rewards, – classified as natural rewards and material rewards, – and of prosocial motivation on the crowds’ willingness to contribute to social entrepreneurial crowdfunding. Data was collected from a tailor-made crowdfunding campaign. Survey results from 208 respondents con...
Background
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, governments imposed numerous regulations to protect public health, particularly the (mandatory) use of face masks. However, the appropriateness and effectiveness of face mask regulations have been widely discussed, as is apparent from the divergent measures taken across and within countries over time, i...
This article explores religion and religiosity in the field of entrepreneurship. Based on an original, international dataset of 740 students, we examine the impact of individual religious affiliation (Protestant, Catholic or Muslim) or non-affiliation (Agnostic/Atheist) on entrepreneurial intentions. We further examine the influence of individual r...
In case of failure, entrepreneurs could endure various financial, psychological, and social costs. These intertwined costs could affect their learning from failure. All individuals do not react in the same way when dealing with adversity. Rather than focusing on (negative) consequences of business failure, we took a more positive approach by using...
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Cette étude explore le sujet largement ignoré de la religion dans le domaine de l’entrepreneuriat. À partir d’une base de données originale constituée de 295 étudiants belges et français, nous examinons l’impact de l’appartenance religieuse individuelle (protestante, catholique, musulmane, etc.) ou de la non-affiliation (agnostique ou athée) sur le...
To achieve herd immunity against COVID-19, it is crucial to know the drivers of vaccination intention and, thereby, vaccination. As the determinants of vaccination differ across vaccines, target groups and contexts, we investigate COVID-19 vaccination intention using data from university students from three countries, the Netherlands, Belgium and P...
Small Business Economics, Call for Papers "Entrepreneurship and Religion". Submission of extended abstracts/proposals before December 1, 2021. Submission of full papers before June 1, 2022.
For more information: https://www.springer.com/journal/11187/updates/19347968
Guest editors: Frank Janssen, Université catholique de Louvain; Brigitte Hoogendo...
Purpose
This article aims to clarify the role of social capital and social capital inequality embedded in bank ties in enabling and diversifying new firms' debt use.
Design/methodology/approach
The study adopts a quantitative method, using an unbalanced longitudinal dataset covering three years–2011, 2013 and 2015–from a project on small manufactu...
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, governments set recommendations and restrictions that have given rise to new situations that require residents to deliberate and respond nonautomatically. For highly impulsive individuals, dealing with these situations may be harder, as they tend to deliberate less about the consequences of their behaviors. In thi...
Prevailing research on individuals’ compliance with public health related behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic tends to study composite measures of multiple types of behaviours, without distinguishing between different types of behaviours. However, measures taken by governments involve adjustments concerning a range of different daily behaviours...
Les expériences des pays industrialisés dans la création de la richesse par le développement et la diversification de l’appareil productif, interrogent et suscitent un intérêt grandissant auprès des pays en voie de développement et émergents. Ces dernières décennies, plusieurs études, ont réussi à faire le rapprochement entre l’entrepreneuriat et l...
We extend prior research on narratives as a means for entrepreneurs to gain stakeholders' support by examining the role that narratives play in building legitimacy in crowdfunding. Our analyses on a dataset of narratives from a large crowdfunding platform suggest that entrepreneurs who finance their ventures through crowdfunding follow some pattern...
This chapter develops and tests a set of hypotheses concerning how the tone of entrepreneurial narratives affects funding success. The authors first test their propositions on a sample of projects seeking resources on a donation and reward-based crowdfunding platform (Ulule). Their results suggest that money providers on such a platform prefer narr...
In the organizational context of social enterprises, the viability of the primary social mission is put to the test when the founder leaves the organization. Yet the literature has remained silent on this important stage in the life of a social enterprise. We address this gap by conducting in-depth case studies in the unexplored setting of India. B...
Résumé
En utilisant les données individuelles de 30 329 ex-entrepreneurs 1 provenant de la base de données du GEM entre 2007 et 2013, nous avons testé l’impact des raisons de sortie volontaires et involontaires ainsi que d’autres déterminants (les capitaux humain et social ainsi que la peur de l’échec) sur l’intention de recréer après une sortie d’...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose a better understanding of how entrepreneurial narrative influences resource acquisition in the fundraising context.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper combines the literature on emotion as information theory from psychology with behavioral finance findings to develop a conceptual framework with re...
Hybrid organising within the context of social entrepreneurship is on the rise. At the same time, social entrepreneurial ventures that adopt hybrid organising are often criticized. The literature on hybridity points to particular challenges for social entrepreneurial ventures such as conflicting institutional logics and tensions related to their du...
This paper presents a critical review of the extensively used push/necessity and pull/opportunity view of entrepreneurial motivations. Based on the Entrepreneurial Event theory (Shapero, 1975; 1984), we show that the Necessity-Opportunity dichotomous approach is over simplified and identify its three main limitations. First, this dichotomy does not...
This paper introduces the special issue of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development on bricolage in social entrepreneurship. We anchor this special issue at the heart of an emerging body of research indicating that bricolage is the most appropriate approach to consider social firms operating in an environment characterized by institutional constra...
Fêter les 80 ans d’une revue académique n’est pas un événement courant. D’aucuns pourraient même être surpris, s’agissant d’une revue de sciences de gestion, d’évoquer 80 ans. Comment, à première vue, penser que 1936 ait vu la naissance de la première revue académique francophone en gestion ? Pourtant, 1936 est aussi l’année de la naissance de l’Ac...
This chapter investigates to what extent the legal environment might have a positive impact on entrepreneurship. Using a research design combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the authors aim at understanding who the entrepreneurs are who positively use regulation as a source of business opportunity, and how they succeed in this. Not al...
Ngo Vi Dung and Frank Janssen examine whether the market-supporting institutions at the sub-national level influence the export behaviors of firms in the context of an emerging economy, namely Vietnam. Analysing a dataset of 7818 Vietnamese firms, including 719 exporting firms, they find that export propensity is mainly and negatively influenced by...
Networks are recognized as a central component of the entrepreneurial process, in particular with regard to opportunity identification and exploitation. In this study, we specifically analyze the role of mentors who are in business as opportunity brokers and enablers among university students with entrepreneurial intentions. Our investigation on 10...
Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles. Focusing on generating social, environmental and business value, the notion has been raised more recently to address the contribution of entrepreneurial activities to sustainable economic and social development.
Sustainable Entrepreneurship and...
Nowadays, entrepreneurship appears as the driver of social and economic development (Observatory of European SMEs, 2003). Entrepreneurs are perceived as the pillars, if not the saviours, of market economy, and their activities as creating value, employment and multiple advantages for consumers. However, some recent studies (Shane, 2009) show that t...
Depuis plusieurs années, la littérature relative à l’entrepreneuriat de nécessité
et d’opportunité a montré que ces deux types d’entrepreneuriat conduisent à
des comportements entrepreneuriaux très différents. Certains chercheurs soutiennent
aussi l’idée qu’il existe plusieurs types d’entrepreneurs de nécessité
et d’opportunité. Sur base de ces élé...
In this article, we examine whether university students are optimistic and/or overconfident about entrepreneurship, and the impact this has on their entrepreneurial intentions. We do so in three different nations corresponding to three different cultural clusters. Findings suggest that, students are optimistic—with American students being the most...
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/185836
Ce chapitre aborde les différentes approches portant sur l'entrepreneur.
Le chapitre aborde les différentes approches économiques de l'entrepreneuriat ainsi que leur conséquence au niveau des outils proposés pour comprendre l'entrepreneuriat notamment à travers le Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).
2e édition revue et augmentée
L’entrepreneuriat est un moteur majeur du développement économique et social. C’est pourquoi il est essentiel d’y sensibiliser les jeunes, afin de les ame- ner à envisager de lancer une activité nouvelle créatrice de valeur.
Plus généralement, un état d’esprit entrepreneurial peut être utile au sein ou à l’extérieur de...
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/176024
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the factors that influence social entrepreneurial ventures’ (SEVs) pursuit of a blended value approach. This paper predicts and examines that the mindset of SEV senior decision-makers leads them to perceive organisational goals differently.
Design/methodology/approach
– T...
The importance of firms from emerging and transition economies (ETES) is rising in the global economy. But what factors drive firms from ETES to internationalize? Prior frameworks do not allow us to fully answer this question. In this paper, we present a model that conceptually links the institutional environment, the firm’s resource investment, an...
Bien que l’échec entrepreneurial soit perçu négativement dans la société, plusieurs chercheurs estiment qu’il offre une réelle opportunité d’apprentissage. Cependant, il est parfois difficile d’apprendre à partir d’un échec compte tenu des différents coûts financiers, psychologiques et sociaux qu’il occasionne. Au travers d’un modèle conceptuel, no...
While an entrepreneurial career requires some level of optimism and confidence, unfounded optimism and overconfidence can be detrimental to entrepreneurial success. By comparing student and faculty perceptual differences, we assess whether university students are overly optimistic regarding the outcomes they expect from an entrepreneurial career as...
La littérature sur les déterminants de la croissance des PME est abondante. Les principaux facteurs étudiés concernent les caractéristiques de l’industrie, de l’entreprise, de la stratégie et de l’entrepreneur. L’idée soutenue dans ce travail est que les déterminants traditionnels de la croissance, et notamment les caractéristiques initiales du dir...
This paper looks at the mediating effect of entrepreneurs' actual behavioral controls on the relationship between psychic distance stimuli and export mode choice of SMEs. Based on a dataset of 84 Vietnamese exporters, we find that: (i) entrepreneurs' actual behavioral controls and organizational factors are determinants of Vietnamese SMEs' export m...
The purpose of this study is to compare the entrepreneurial intentions of university students in North Africa (Algeria) with those of students in Canada and Europe (France and Belgium), and to examine differences with regard to psychological, sociocultural and economic factors influencing these intentions. Analyses on the sample as a whole confirm...
There is an abundant literature on policies aiming at supporting entrepreneurship or small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). At the same time, many studies investigate the compliance costs of regulations and stress their constraining impact on entrepreneurship or SMEs. In this paper we demystify the classical distinction made between ‘supportive...
La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque...
This study aims at understanding the role played by a regulation
adopted to facilitate venture creation in Belgium by institutionalising
business incubators for job-seekers and social assistance recipients. We had
semi-directive interviews with 14 incubated nascent entrepreneurs. Our results
confirm that those entrepreneurs who discover regulatory...
This study aims at understanding the role played by a regulation adopted to facilitate venture creation in Belgium by institutionalising business incubators for job-seekers and social assistance recipients. We had semi-directive interviews with 14 incubated nascent entrepreneurs. Our results confirm that those entrepreneurs who discover regulatory...
