How founders harness tensions in hybrid venture development (2024)
Journal Article
Muñoz, P., Farny, S., Kibler, E., & Salmivaara, V. (in press). How founders harness tensions in hybrid venture development. Business & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241255483

Although the simultaneous presence of multiple ambitions is inherent in hybrid venturing, pursuing social and/or environmental missions while securing commercial viability can generate ambivalence amongst stakeholders. In this study, we draw on the... Read More about How founders harness tensions in hybrid venture development.

Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context (2024)
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Newbery, R., McKague, K., Muñoz, P., & Kimmitt, J. (2024). Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12826

This paper proposes and tests a new conceptual framing for franchisee performance that draws on institutional complexity to explore the interaction of corporate, market, and relational logics of performance. Extant research draws on corporate and mar... Read More about Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context.

When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship (2024)
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Muñoz, P., & Gamble, E. (2024). When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2349207

This paper examines how social entrepreneurs construct impact arguments as they begin to assess social impact. We examined the experiences of 68 social entrepreneurs in Chile and discovered that the construction of arguments for the purpose of thinki... Read More about When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship.

Knowledge investment and search for innovation: Evidence from the UK firms (2024)
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Audretsch, D. B., Belitski, M., & Chowdhury, F. (2024). Knowledge investment and search for innovation: Evidence from the UK firms. The Journal of Technology Transfer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10045-7

Recent research on innovation management and knowledge transfer has demonstrated that industry knowledge collaboration and knowledge spillovers matter for innovation, but so does a firm's Research and Development (R&D). Conditional to a firm's R&D in... Read More about Knowledge investment and search for innovation: Evidence from the UK firms.

A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems (2024)
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Healy, J., Hughes, J., Donnelly-Cox, G., & Shantz, A. (2024). A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 21, Article e00455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00455

Advice abounds on how to implement large-scale social change, much of which emphasizes a simplistic linear process, led by a heroic central actor. Rigorous case studies have shown that social change is far more complex: it is a reci... Read More about A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems.

Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique? (2024)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, F., & Audretsch, D. B. (2024). Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?. Small Business Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00885-4

While private entrepreneurial activity has been at the core of entrepreneurship, nonprofit ventures still need to be explored in the literature. Using norm-activation theory (NAT) and resource-based view (RBV) lenses, we explore the antecedents of un... Read More about Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?.

Human-animal mutualism in regenerative entrepreneurship (2024)
Journal Article
Muñoz, P., & Hernández, M. (2024). Human-animal mutualism in regenerative entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36(5-6), 577-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2305648

In this paper, we explore the micro-interactions through which a regenerative enterprise engages with proximate natural ecosystems in its attempt to repair and protect them. Through an ethnographic study of a regenerative farming enterprise in rural... Read More about Human-animal mutualism in regenerative entrepreneurship.