Galina Shirokova

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Professor at National Research University Higher School of Economics

Purpose Although entrepreneurship represents one of the main driving forces of socio-economic development of any nation, women continue to be underrepresented in this domain. The aim of this paper is to examine the role that relevant university education and environment play in narrowing the gender gap in youth entrepreneurship. Design/methodology...

Научные исследования предпринимательства и сопутствующих процессов широко представлены в отечественной литературе последних трех десятилетий. Для адекватного представления о достижениях, тематических лакунах и методологических проблемах, которые следует решить в ходе дальнейших изысканий, проведен систематический анализ научных исследований по теме...

Purpose Previous studies considered effectuation and causation as alternative decision-making strategies used by entrepreneurs to navigate uncertainty, having various individual- and firm-level antecedents. This study aims to broaden our understanding of individual-level antecedents by examining the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) temporal fo...

Prior studies have found that the affective commitment of firm leaders may yield superior firm performance, but existing research has yet to uncover the paths through which this relationship materializes. Using a sample of 7,319 new ventures from 23 countries, we demonstrate that founder’s affective commitment relates to new venture performance thr...

Purpose The current business environment is characterized by high levels of uncertainty that affect the global economic system and have the greatest impact on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With an elevated degree of perceived uncertainty, Chief executive officers' (CEOs) of SMEs find themselves in a situation where the old approaches t...

From inception, start-ups are torn between two opposing legitimacy pressures: the need to differentiate from competitors and the need to conform to stakeholders’ expectations. In this study, we adopt an organizational identification perspective, coupled with a legitimacy-seeking lens, to explore the start-up legitimation progress for entrepreneurs...

This article seeks to analyze the relationship between business model innovation (BMI) and young firm performance, and the impact of founder's personal characteristics on this relationship. Drawing on the resource-based view and strategic leadership theory, we examine the moderating role of founder workaholism on the relationship between BMI and yo...

Plain English Summary Narcissistic workaholics achieve high business performance, unless their families become too involved. Founders wield outsized influence over new venture creation and early development. For example, past research suggests that personality traits of the founder, like narcissism, may boost new venture performance or destroy it....

Purpose This study examines the relationship between strategic entrepreneurial behaviors (SEBs) and the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an emerging market context. The authors expand upon prior work in this area by building and testing a model that assesses the moderating effect of CEOs’ narcissism and Machiavellianism o...

Purpose Economy-wide crises create major challenges for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Existing studies emphasize the crucial role of contrasting behavioral strategies, effectuation and causation in SMEs' adaptation to crisis conditions. Yet, prior literature concentrated predominantly on exploring the impact of effectuation and causation on...

This article uses a global multilevel sample to advance our understanding of the gender gap in youth entrepreneurship by investigating the joint moderating influence of in-group support and national embeddedness values on young women’s entrepreneurial activity relative to that of young men. Based on a mixed embeddedness theoretical lens, our modera...

To better understand the role of context for theory development in entrepreneurship, we build a theoretical framework which captures four aspects of the “theory to context” and “context to theory” interplay. We use the results from a literature review of entrepreneurship research on Russia published in leading journals over the past 30-year period...

Prior studies have examined effectuation and causation as alternative behavioural logics used by entrepreneurs to manage uncertainty, noting a number of antecedents of the tendency to rely on a given logic at different levels of analysis. This study aims to broaden the understanding of individual‐level antecedents by examining the role of the so‐ca...

The entrepreneurship literature has suggested the criticality of replicating findings along with the potential for nuance when examining relationships within emerging market contexts. In this study, we seek to reproduce the findings of Yu et al. (2021) concerning entrepreneurial orientation (EO), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and...

This Research Handbook provides a solid foundation for exploring the vibrant field of strategic entrepreneurship, with an examination of important topics from theoretical, psychological and economic perspectives. Analyzing new directions for future research, this Research Handbook spans the comprehensiveness of the field and offers insights into s...

Organizational researchers have long been interested in the links between strategy and entrepreneurship (Acs & Audtretsch, 2003; Bruton, Filatotchev, Si, & Wright, 2013; Ireland, 2007). For many, strategy and entrepreneurship are two sides of the “economic value” coin, with entrepreneurship researchers delving into value creation and strategy resea...

Purpose A strategic response to crisis research is a critical and growing area of study in management and business literature. Consequently, the sudden rise of COVID-19, that has a substantial adverse impact on the global economy in a relatively short period of time, brings into sharp focus on the possible and most effective types of strategic resp...

In this study, we theorize how regulatory, normative, and cognitive institutions moderate the entrepreneurial orientation (EO)‐performance relationship. We test our hypotheses using data from entrepreneurial ventures in 31 countries. In countries with well‐developed legal and financial institutions and where entrepreneurship is normatively supporte...

Entrepreneurs employ various behavioral logics in the venture creation process, including effectuation and causation. Where prior studies suggest that both causal and effectual approaches are positively related to firm performance, the extant literature has not examined how the institutional context influences this relationship. This study explores...

Situational factors may facilitate or frustrate the translation of entrepreneurial intentions into subsequent actions. In this study, we use data from two waves of a large-scale cross-country study of student entrepreneurship, the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey (GUESSS), conducted in 2011 and 2013/2014 (n = 1434 students...

Exploration and exploitation are two generic strategies of firms' adaptation to their environments. However, the effectiveness and reliability of these approaches are not fully understood when the business environment is undergoing a major crisis. Building on organizational adaptation, strategic fit, and organizational decline streams of literature...

Research Summary This study aims to broaden the understanding of effectuation and causation by investigating their effectiveness for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the emerging market context during adverse economic conditions. We embrace a holistic view of the performance implications of these behavioral logics, theorizing and empirically...

While there is growing interest in exploring strategic orientations, their interaction, and impact on firm performance, most research has been conducted within stable economic environments. Taking into consideration economic instability, it is timely to develop a more nuanced understanding of how economic crises may affect key strategic orientation...

Autonomy is a primary motive, as well as source of satisfaction, for those who start and run their own business. Autonomy is not inherent to business ownership – owner/founders must make concentrated efforts to achieve and maintain autonomy. This study aims to increase our understanding of autonomy by investigating how it is experienced, the factor...

This paper aims to explore the relationship between different components of strategic entrepreneurship (particularly, entrepreneurial mindset, innovation, managing resources strategically, and competitive advantage) and SME performance during the economic crisis. To test the theoretical model, we utilize data collected through a survey of Russian S...

Institutional voids plague entrepreneurship in emerging economies. In this paper, we investigate how the social structure of the family can enable young entrepreneurs to navigate the institutional voids and progress through the venturing process. Findings suggest that both institutional voids and family support have a significant effect on startup...

This article examines the moderating role of regional social capital in the intention–behaviour link in entrepreneurship. We investigate to what extent the regional social capital context in which aspiring entrepreneurs are embedded strengthens or weakens the translation of individual entrepreneurial intentions into new venture creation activities....

The last few years have witnessed a significant increase in academic research examining entrepreneurial orientation (EO), with scholarship on this topic being regularly published internationally. This special issue addresses the need to develop a deeper understanding of EO in the global context. Globalisation and the growing popularity of entrepren...

Existing studies conceptualize entrepreneurial action as deliberate, goal-oriented behavior, driven primarily by entrepreneurial intention. Yet, the translation of intention into entrepreneurial behavior remains the least studied link in models explaining entrepreneurial action. Empirical evidence suggests that not every entrepreneurial intention i...

While firm strategic orientations have received considerable attention, most research has focused on singular orientations without considering their complementarity for firm's outcomes. In this study, we decompose the unique and complementary variance of several strategic orientations – market (MO), entrepreneurial (EO), and learning orientation (L...

While many firms operate in dynamic environments, the competitive conditions faced by firms during an economic crisis are especially unstable and turbulent. We examine firm strategic decision-making in this distinctive context and investigate the question of whether causal and effectual logic provide similar paths to performance during such challen...

This chapter provides an overview of the business climate in Russia, which in turn depends upon the country’s political-economic environment. The chapter also focuses on the conditions for doing business by both domestic and foreign firms. The chapter consists of four sections: (1) introducing the institutional environment for doing business in Rus...

While a significant body of literature has explored the link between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance, most research has focused on single country settings without considering potential institutional factors that may shape the relationship. In this study, we investigate the impact of institutional elements of the external envir...

Within the broader literature on contextual determinants of effectual and causal cognitive logics, the paper explores the drivers of causal and effectual reasoning in student-founders of new ventures, particularly focusing on the role of university entrepreneurship-related offerings and student prior business experience. Using the Global University...

Student proclivity to start a venture can be affected not only by the university environment where they are exposed to entrepreneurship, but also by perceptions of how desirable entrepreneurial behavior is considered to be in a given society. Based on an embeddedness perspective, and using a sample of students from 26 countries and 489 universities...

Studies examining the relationship between national culture and entrepreneurial activity have largely ignored the influence of culture on individual decision-making. Recent years have witnessed considerable interest in cognitive logics employed by entrepreneurs. A growing body of literature examines factors contributing to the relative reliance on...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm growth and the moderating role of business environment for Russian and Finnish small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For hypothesis testing, structural equation modeling is applied to the data set of 104 Russian and 117 Finnish priva...

The formulation of entrepreneurial aspirations represents one of the key stages of the entrepreneurial process. In practice, however, not every declared intention is eventually translated into a viable enterprise, creating the phenomenon of the intention-action gap. This study is based upon the key principles of embeddedness perspective and the the...

Using an embeddedness perspective, a model and hypotheses are developed concerning the impact of the university entrepreneurial context on student start-up activity. Results based on analysis of the GUESSS database from 25 countries demonstrate that students' involvement in entrepreneurship-related curricular programs and co-curricular activities a...

Using an embeddedness perspective, a model and hypotheses are developed concerning the impact of the university entrepreneurial context on student start-up activity. Results based on analysis of the GUESSS database from 25 countries demonstrate that students' involvement in entrepreneurshiprelated curricular programs and co-curricular activities at...

Traditional understanding of a successful firm relates to the quality of its planning processes, competitiveness, and strategic analysis. Recently, a new decision- making theory supposing two alternative venture cognitive logics was developed in order to overcome shortcomings of rational decision-making under high levels of uncertainty. Both these...

The present study explores the link between entrepreneurial learning and students’ entrepreneurial intentions, and examines the role of characteristics of national culture in this relationship. It contributes to the existing literature in the field by addressing the call for focusing on learning rather than teaching entrepreneurship and contextuali...

The present study explores the link between entrepreneurial learning and students’ entrepreneurial intentions, and examines the role of characteristics of national culture in this relationship. It contributes to the existing literature in the field by addressing the call for focusing on learning rather than teaching entrepreneurship and contextuali...

The purpose of this article is to present the analysis of main research directions on strategic entrepreneurship (SE) published in international peer-reviewed journals on management and entrepreneurship in 2001–2016. In order to achieve the purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted. The analysis of 70 publications identified main approa...

This study examines how components of strategic entrepreneurship relate to Russian small and medium-sized firms performance during the economic crisis and to what extent combinations of firm resources determine these relationships. In order to address these issues we surveyed 651 Russian private SMEs. Our results show that during the economic crisi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance across different levels of environmental hostility and market growth. The contingency approach of two-way interactions of EO with each environmental variable is contrasted with the configurational approach of three-way in...

Entrepreneurial entry happens as a consequence of a general choice of an individual to become an entrepreneur. While most entrepreneurial entry studies rarely consider an industry choice to be an aspect of entrepreneurial decision making process, we address this issue taking into account individual, industrial, and country specific attributes. Usin...

This study examines how components of strategic entrepreneurship (exploration and exploitation) relate to Russian SMEs performance during the economic crisis and to what extent combinations of firm resources determine these relationships. In order to address these issues we surveyed 651 Russian private SMEs. Our results show that during the economi...

The present research examines the understudied impact of the regulatory environment on the manifestation of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) among firms within an emerging market context. Results from an exploratory sample of 432 Russian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) suggest that key aspects of the regulatory environment may deserve fur...

The absence of specialized intermediaries, regulatory systems, and contract-enforcing mechanisms, more commonly known as institutional voids, plagues emerging markets. This paper explores the link between the institutional and family embeddedness of nascent entrepreneurial activity among student entrepreneurs. Specifically, we argue that the social...

Entrepreneurial intentions lie at the foundation of entrepreneurial process. Yet the available evidence suggests that not every entrepreneurial intention is eventually transformed into actual behavior – starting and operating a new venture. Although studies in other research domains suggest high level of intention-behavior correlation, the studies...

This article offers new insights on determinants of degree and scope of new venture internationalization from emerging markets. We set our study by development of a theoretical framework and hypothesis integrating entrepreneur-, firm-, industry-, and institutional factors to be tested in the Russian empirical context. The results indicate that inst...

The study aims to assess how different types of entrepreneurial capital provided by universities affect student involvement in entrepreneurship. The role of university is analyzed from the embeddedness perspective, where purposeful behavior is largely affected by network relationship and the trust that exists in such relationship. We used data of t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to bring together a strategic choice perspective and an institutional perspective in order to address the key research questions: how do Russian founder-CEOs perceive the institutional environment when succession issues are taken into consideration?; how do the perceived characteristics of different formal and...

The paper investigates a relationship between the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions —innovativeness, proactiveness, and readiness to risk — and firm performance of Russian SMEs. We assess EO effects on firm performance in the context of an emerging market taking into account environmental contingencies. Our findings are underpinned by the...

In academic literature, there has been made a significant effort of researching a link between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. However, most research has been based in one country settings without taking into account cross-country differences. In this study, we investigate a relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and fir...

In this paper, we use a social support perspective and hypothesize that the scope of start-up activities is positively associated with two types of instrumental family support, financial and social capital. We further argue that the effect of instrumental family support is enhanced by the level of emotional support, in the form of family cohesivene...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the main antecedents of students’ entrepreneurial intentions in Russia and investigate different factors that can determine the formation of students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The proposed theoretical framework integrates the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), contingency approach and institutional perspect...

On the frosty winter morning of January 15, 2011, Boris Beylin, the founder of the Big Filter Company — a Russian producer of car filters — was driving to his Saint Petersburg office thinking about a problem that had started to weigh heavily on his mind: Should the company more aggressively go after the international original equipment manufacturer...

As recent research documents, there has been an impressive effort of studying the entrepreneurial orientation construct and its nomological role. However, most research has been very context specific and based on the analyses of cross-sectional information. We study causal performance effects from entrepreneurial orientation and its key dimensions...

This case takes place in Russia in 2008, not quite 20 years into the post-Soviet developing economy. DiPaul was an authorized dealer of electronic instruments, equipment, and materials for the production and assembly of printed circuit boards as well as soldering equipment. Its core business was supplying measurement instruments and process equipme...