Leo-Paul Dana

Dalhousie University | Dal · Rowe School of Business

Drawing on the Pinocchio paradox, this paper explains the puzzling performance of microbusinesses during the COVID-19 crisis based on their entrepreneurial commitment and perseverance. Findings are drawn from a survey of owners and managers of 202 microbusinesses in Northern England during lockdown periods caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The sampled...

This paper investigates the influence of institutional dynamics and governance structures on private equity investment in Saudi Arabia, with a particular focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the context of Saudi Arabia's evolving regulatory framework under Vision 2030, the study examines how both formal institutions, such as legal reg...

Over the past few years, academic scholars have shifted toward paying more attention to work‐family balance, family social support, and subjective well‐being, as these are critical issues for mature employees. Besides, Y‐Gen managers are more concerned about their digital leadership skills, which is also crucial for subjective well‐being. However,...

Family business dominates the Indian corporate landscape, reflecting the country’s strong familial culture. While sustainability in family business is a growing research area, its understanding in the Indian context remains limited. This study aims to investigate the factors contributing to family business sustainability in India and examines the r...

For several years, organizational resilience has been considered as a strategy for navigating challenging circumstances. A significant number of business closures has sparked inquiries into the characteristics and typical profiles of entrepreneurs who can withstand these challenges, as indicated by previous research. This study aims to gain insight...

Purpose This purpose of this study aims to critically evaluate the feasibility of establishing a single currency area within the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) by examining the economic integration of its member states. The analysis focuses on the extent to which the region meets the criteria of the optimum currency area (...

As the world is rapidly globalizing, the need is growing for more localized views of non-mainstream entrepreneurial activities. Views that come from within, not from outside. This helps us in understanding phenomena that have largely been overlooked so far, but which have perhaps been around for centuries. A special phenomena is “indigenous entrepr...

The book titled "Gender in Digital Entrepreneurship: Recent Issues in Emerging Countries" offers an in-depth exploration of the intersection between gender and digital entrepreneurship, particularly focusing on the unique dynamics in emerging countries. As technology continues to reshape business landscapes, it opens new avenues for gender equality...

Considering some drawbacks, the application of Chat Generative Pre-training Transformer (ChatGPT) in sustainable business, economics, and entrepreneurial projects has numerous advantages. This review seeks to comprehend the present scenario of ChatGPT utilization in business, economics, and entrepreneurial domains and its perceived benefits and dra...

Abstract Purpose This paper explores the direct and indirect effects of family emotional, social and organizational support on Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) through psychological capital (Psy.Cap). Design/methodology/approach Selected by conducting stratified random sampling techniques, 397 employees completed a questionnaire. We used structural...

This study explores the entrepreneurship trends among Islamic business management students upon graduating, focusing on their integration of Islamic principles into business practices. Qualitative interviews were conducted with recent graduates to investigate their entrepreneurial intentions, challenges faced, and the influence of their educational...

Capacity building is significant for women entrepreneurs. However, the appreciation of the problem of capacity building is low, and there is a lack of realistic funding and support for the same. There is minimal research into women entrepreneurs’ key motivating factors, success factors and issues, resulting in a strategic gap in developing policies...

The study emphasizes the significance of entrepreneurial ecosystem in the journey of women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. The research looks at the evidence to understand the women entrepreneurs better, to address the unique challenges they face, and the ways women entrepreneurs are navigating the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Bangladesh. The authors...

Amidst the fast-changing consumer behavior and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, community-based enterprises (CBEs), particularly startups, face the challenge of identifying strategic business models. The situation necessitates a collaborative and tailored approach to address the impediments CBEs encounter. Focusing on rural CBEs in Thailand, ou...

Following the opening profile case study, this chapter begins by delving into the distinctive nature of leadership within family businesses, highlighting its uniqueness, complexity, and capacity for ambidexterity. Additionally, it sheds light on the specific challenges associated with achieving ambidexterity in family businesses. Then the chapter e...

This chapter introduces the readership of general principles of competitive advantages using the triple-bottom approach. It overviews competitive advantages that are sustainable for family businesses and they truly work in hardship. The chapter will cover different types of competitive advantage following the paths introduced to achieve the sustain...

Unique selling proposition is the focus of every firm in the market and so for the family business. This is the key driver for competitive advantage. Thus, the chapter overviews the most important existing models that help family firms toward long-term sustainable competitive advantage, but also it introduces possible models for family business sus...

Operation management and supply chain are main daily operations in family business, which every moment adds value to an organizational performance. Having a stable and best choice of suppliers/distributors/retailers is one of the keys to sustaining the business and firm’s competitive advantage. The chapter proposes sustainable values in operations...

The chapter introduces the overall sustainability of businesses, the nature of the family business, models, and it will introduce an overview of the family business sustainability using a triple-bottom approach. The chapter ends with the summary and the case study in the end that will introduce readers to the sustainability of family business. The...

The chapter portrays models that can be used in the long-term sustainability of global operations. It describes the modes of operations of a business on a globe and suggests models on which global operations will be sustainable using the triple-bottom-line approach. The chapter is followed by a case study.

New times require smart spending/investments, and wise controlling of costs while introducing new products/services. The chapter depicts the most important aspects of the financial tools that can help family businesses to finance and sustain financial aspect of firm’s business using the triple-bottom approach. It observes some financial models that...

Sustainable competitive advantage is imperative and without a strong background in human resources, it cannot be implemented. Human capital, in this context, is regarded as precious as other assets in organizations. Nowadays, it is necessary to plan and develop human resources that will help family firms to be present in the market. Thus, this chap...

R&D is being always part of firms if they want to produce and compete in the market. The chapter will depict areas of R&D that are key activities of the triple-bottom approach. It overviews nature of the R&D, new product development life cycle, and overviews possible sustainable models of R&D that will be a part of family business longevity as well...

In the era of organizational change, it is crucial to comprehend how employees react to change and how to overcome individual resistance to change. The article is a narrative scrutiny of the body of work that offers valuable insights into employee behavior during organizational transformation. The paper details the fundamental reasons for employee...

This article explores the concept of "immigrant consumption behavior (ICB)" in the context of its holistic surroundings. The study investigated the current dynamics and scientometrics of the research field regarding immigrant consumption behaviors. Using an integrative approach employing bibliometric and content analysis, it scrutinized a collectio...

Purpose Entrepreneurship education (EE) through innovative teaching techniques (ITEE) and entrepreneurial intention (EI) are two essential components of entrepreneurship development. Using the assumptions of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), we took three constructs: attitude (ATT), subjective norms (SUBNs), and perceived behavioral control (PB...

This study investigates the empowering potential of digital technologies for women entrepreneurs , a transformative force that transcends all fields of knowledge. It specifically examines how technology can equip women to overcome socio-cultural and economic barriers, focusing on the case of Iran. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, util...

Objective New technology-based firms (NTBFs) are key actors in creating value through innovation, but they face significant challenges in the rapidly changing and competitive technological environment. Methods This research is a multi-method analysis aiming to present a model of relationships among drivers for collaboration and competition among t...

The use of PLS-SEM in women's entrepreneurship research is discussed in this article. It is believed that this is a pioneering study to use PLS-SEM to conduct research on women entrepreneurship. It is a multivariate technique that is particularly useful in descriptive research. The study describes how to conduct effective research on women entrepre...

Objective: The fundamental objective of this systematic literature review (SLR) is to explore the current challenges for women entrepreneurs in developing countries and discuss future research opportunities. Research Design & Methods: We applied a SLR approach to fulfil the objective. We selected 29 articles from SCOPUS and Google Scholar databases...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make important contributions to sustainable economic growth, employment, poverty alleviation, local development, and human wellbeing in developed and developing countries [...]

The chapter focuses on the phenomena of digital currencies issued by central banks (CBDC). The approach to the cashless economy, the battle against money laundering and tax evasion, the growing competition of private digital currencies, the enhancement of the monetary policy transmission mechanism, and the technological advancement of the payment s...

Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, Sustainability has become integral to any future-oriented entrepreneurial activity (Salamzadeh et al., 2020). In fact, entrepreneurs can initiate and improve levels of sustainable economic development on multiple levels, including that of the individual (e.g., Hammawa & Hashim, 2016), team (e.g., Paramba...

Choosing a foreign market entry strategy is known to be essential for firm internationalisation yet there is very little focus on the role, purpose, and value of open innovation for internationalising high-tech SMEs. A review of the international business, international entrepreneurship and international marketing literature combined with a bibliom...

In this chapter, the Bede, a nomadic marginalised community in Bangladesh, is studied, emphasising their identity, customs, and hardships. Many Bede were illiterate and poverty-stricken, supporting themselves as snake charmers, traditional medicine practitioners, and by selling medicinal herbs and amulets. However, the demand for their services dec...

There are over 150,000 Inuit inhabiting the harsh Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Traditionally, the Inuit were nomadic subsistence hunters and fishers, hunting, whales, walruses, caribou, seals, narwhals, polar bears, muskoxen, birds, and occasionally foxes, and fishing for Arctic char, salmon, polar cod, and bullhead. Dogsleds and kayaks provided...

Entrepreneurial ventures face various problems contributing to the regional resilience of their districts. Among such firms are digital platform‐based businesses that could have exponential impacts—indeed, if they succeed in overcoming the barriers. Thus, this study aims to identify the major technological barriers to creating regional resilience i...

This study explores the effect of dispositional optimism bias on entrepreneurial success. By reviewing a mixture of previous studies from different disciplines: psychology, business and economics, we predict that this bias can positively affect entrepreneurial success. Based on a sample of 255 entrepreneurs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and using...

This article examines bilateral trade relations between the two important countries of South Asia, India and Sri Lanka, in light of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and the India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA). The analysis period spans the years 1995 to 2020. The primary analysis found that bilateral trade has been sluggish and that...

The fashion industry has a significant environmental impact on a global scale; it employs a large proportion of the world’s workers and accounts for a large share of global exports. Based on our findings, proactive and reactive environmental strategies, sustainability orientation, green entrepreneurial orientation, green innovation, and circular ec...

While Bangladesh's garment industry is snowballing, it is beginning to face several problems in various areas. This chapter aims to catalogue the obstacles to sustainability faced by Bangladesh's garment industry and outline possible opportunities. This chapter is qualitative and constructed from secondary sources. The data came from various publis...

This special issue looks at partnership approaches to innovation thanks to recent developments in ICT, which enable the acquisition and transfer of skills, thus changing the processes and organization of firms. It is therefore essential to understand how ICT is used to establish internal and external collaborations for innovation. For this reason,...

In the evolving landscape of entrepreneurship, digital technologies have ushered in new possibilities, attracting considerable academic attention. Despite the burgeoning research in Digital Entrepreneurship, the field remains fragmented, warranting a synthesized overview and structured research agenda. Consistently with the above, the paper present...

This chapter explores the strategies family businesses can utilize to improve their success by providing an example of the Innovation Floor, one of the leading Emirati business enterprises. It is a technology-based company offering services in artificial intelligence, gamification, GIS-based solution development, and so forth. This chapter explores...

The fashion industry has begun to introduce garments made from relatively sustainable fibres that were little known until recently. Some natural fibres–that can be derived from various sources including animals, insects, minerals and plants–have unique characteristics making them suitable in the industry. Hence, we see the fashion industry evolving...

This study examines the impact of volatility on the returns of nine National Stock Exchange (NSE) indices before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study employed generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) modelling to analyse investor risk and the impact of volatility on returns. The study makes several contributi...

This study investigates whether female self-employment at the country level is similarly or differently impacted by the same factors as is male self-employment. In order to determine these factors, we referred to three major theories explaining the entrepreneurship determinants at the macro level, namely institutional theory, eclectic theory and ge...

The intricate relationship between financial fraud and credit risk, and their combined impact on banking stability, is a vital and under-researched aspect of financial system integrity. To fill this knowledge gap, this study embarked on a thorough bibliometric analysis of the field, utilizing 2790 documents from various sources, including 1853 arti...

Transformational entrepreneurship (TE) has become a prevalent mind-set to survive societal, ecological and economic sustainability factors, particularly in emerging economies. Interestingly, different types of digital platforms (DPs) (i.e., transaction, innovation and integration) have assisted in this transformation. Although the implementation of...

Dear Colleagues, Recently, the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation management has proliferated at a global level. Nevertheless, despite the role of context in these fields, most studies have overlooked the contextual factors or have placed them in the background (Shirokova et al., 2022). That is why it is highly recommended by many disti...

Entrepreneurship is the readiness and ability of an organization, primarily a new business, to develop, organize, and conduct its business to make a profit despite uncertainties. Social commerce (s-commerce) assists consumers to buy products online. However, few studies have investigated the influence of entrepreneurship and online platform capabil...

Studies on the impact of group-based financing on women entrepreneurs in the developing world are under-represented in entrepreneurship research. With this exploratory study, we focus on women entrepreneurship from a community financing perspective to account for the underlying mechanisms of a community financing scheme and its impact on women entr...

The garment economy is constantly evolving. During the early twentieth century, fashion ideas emerged in Paris, and this city became the world’s fashion capital; however, fashion capitals of the world today include London, New York and Milan. Since the turn of the millennium, clothing production has approximately doubled, and employing as many as 3...

The notion of the Blue Ocean Strategy was first proposed and then promoted by Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. This approach is in contrast with the traditional competition-based strategies, as it provides firms with new insights on how to change the competition scene – a competition with non-zero-sum games that follows a reconstructionist view of the...

Not surprisingly, in 2022, Paul Smith opened its 3294 sq. ft. highly innovative flagship store at a popular and bustling location on Harumi-Dori Street (one of Ginza’s two main shopping avenues) in Tokyo (Superfuture, 2022). Japan stands as Paul Smith’s most significant overseas market, representing about 40% of its total turnover. While many fashi...

Climate change and climate finance continue to attract substantial research interest in several dimensions and categories through COVID-19 breakout and resulting disruptions were crucial. An in-depth scientometric analysis was undertaken to gain concise insights on evolution and publication trends of this multi-dimensional field. Corpus of 657 arti...

Purpose – The aim of this paper, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and digital entrepreneurship literature, is to unveil the role of digital entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial role models in shaping digital entrepreneurial intentions (DEI) among Saudi Youth through a moderated mediation perspective. This study proposes that...

Abstract: This research investigates the dynamic interplay between financial technology, infor-mation and communication technology, energy consumption, and economic growth on environ-mental sustainability within Emerging and Growth-Leading Economies (EAGLEs) from 2005 to 2020. Utilizing advanced econometric techniques, such as Fully Modified Least...

Why an international conference on migrant entrepreneurship? - to respond to public interest, to discuss the current state of knowledge, and to identify pressing issues the field faces; and - to enable dialog between PhDs, early-career scholars and senior research fellows in order to focus debate, stimulate cooperation in research, and strengthen t...