Written evidence submitted by Dr. Farzana Chowdhury (Associate Professor at Durham University) [FEN0016]
(2025)
Report
Chowdhury, F. (2025). Written evidence submitted by Dr. Farzana Chowdhury (Associate Professor at Durham University) [FEN0016]. Women and Equalities Committee
All Outputs (22)
Digitalization and Financial Inclusion for Female Entrepreneurs in Corrupt Countries: Evidence from Southeast Asian Countries (2024)
Book Chapter
Chowdhury, F. (2025). Digitalization and Financial Inclusion for Female Entrepreneurs in Corrupt Countries: Evidence from Southeast Asian Countries. In Organizational Corruption, Crime and Covid-19 Upholding Integrity and Transparency in Times of Crisis. Routledge
Start-Up Support Organizations: Challenges and Resilience During Crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Chowdhury, F., & Boone, J. (2024). Start-Up Support Organizations: Challenges and Resilience During Crisis. In D. Cumming, & B. Hammer (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38738-9_256-1
Knowledge investment and search for innovation: evidence from the UK firms (2024)
Journal Article
Audretsch, D. B., Belitski, M., & Chowdhury, F. (2024). Knowledge investment and search for innovation: evidence from the UK firms. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 49(4), 1387-1410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10045-7Recent 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.
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique? (2024)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, F., & Audretsch, D. B. (2024). Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?. Small Business Economics, 63(4), 1615-1639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00885-4While 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?.
Regulating entrepreneurship quality and quantity (2023)
Journal Article
David, A. B., Maksim, B., Farzana, C., & Sameeksha, D. (2024). Regulating entrepreneurship quality and quantity. Research Policy, 53(2), Article 104942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104942How does regulation affect entrepreneurship outcomes? We examine the effect of two regulatory policy mechanisms—costs and procedures—on entrepreneurship quality and quantity. Based on the national systems of entrepreneurship perspective, we apply pub... Read More about Regulating entrepreneurship quality and quantity.
The Deterioration of Self-Worth in Entrepreneurship (2023)
Journal Article
Muñoz-Roman, P., Braun, S., Chowdhury, F., Barton, M., Jayne-Little, N., Komes, J., Rowland, J., Sykes, K., Smith, J., Talbot-Jones, C., & Taggart, A. (2023). The Deterioration of Self-Worth in Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 20, Article e00430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00430This paper explores the deterioration of self-worth in entrepreneurship. Using a 15-month participatory action research in the North of England, we found mismatches between expectations and experiences at three interacting levels—purpose, autonomy,... Read More about The Deterioration of Self-Worth in Entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial growth, value creation and new technologies (2023)
Journal Article
Audretsch, D. B., Belitski, M., Caiazza, R., Chowdhury, F., & Menter, M. (2023). Entrepreneurial growth, value creation and new technologies. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 48, 1535–1551. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-023-10034-wA robust literature has provided compelling evidence showing how digital transformation impacts entrepreneurship activity. However, only a paucity of research has linked adoption of new technologies to innovation, value creation, knowledge transfer a... Read More about Entrepreneurial growth, value creation and new technologies.
Paradoxes of accelerator programs and new venture performance: Do varieties of experiences make a difference? (2023)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, F., & Audretsch, D. B. (2024). Paradoxes of accelerator programs and new venture performance: Do varieties of experiences make a difference?. Small Business Economics, 62(1), 381-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00778-yIncubators and accelerators have proliferated, but their impact on new ventures’ performance remains unclear. This article explores whether all ventures benefit equally from participating in accelerator programs. We propose that the entrepreneurs’ hu... Read More about Paradoxes of accelerator programs and new venture performance: Do varieties of experiences make a difference?.
CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports (2022)
Journal Article
Audretsch, D. B., Belitski, M., Chowdhury, F., & Desai, S. (2022). CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports. International Business Review, 31(5), Article 102008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2022.102008To what extent does the gender of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) matter in the relationship between home country corruption and firm exports? Drawing on post-structural feminist and institutional theories, we employ self-reported micro-level and cro... Read More about CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports.
Digitalization, Institutional Voids and New Venture Internationalization (2022)
Journal Article
Brieger, S. A., Chowdhury, F., Hechavarría, D. M., Muralidharan, E., Pathak, S., & Lam, Y. T. (2022). Digitalization, Institutional Voids and New Venture Internationalization. Journal of International Management, 28(4), Article 100949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2022.100949This study examines the effect of digitalization on the internationalization of new ventures and further investigates the influence of a home country’s presence of institutional voids and digital infrastructure on the extent of internationalization b... Read More about Digitalization, Institutional Voids and New Venture Internationalization.
Who Helps the Helpers? Resilience and Challenges of Business Accelerators and Incubators during the Pandemic in the U.K (2022)
Report
Chowdhury, F., & Boone, J. (2022). Who Helps the Helpers? Resilience and Challenges of Business Accelerators and Incubators during the Pandemic in the U.K. NESTABusiness accelerators and incubators assist young ventures by providing many critical services. Restrictions associated with COVID-19 are expected to have a significant impact on these programs. This paper provides the first analysis of the pandemic'... Read More about Who Helps the Helpers? Resilience and Challenges of Business Accelerators and Incubators during the Pandemic in the U.K.
Home-country export regulations, credit markets, and corruption: implications for different types of internationalization (2021)
Journal Article
Audretsch, D., Belitski, M., Chowdhury, F., & Desai, S. (2021). Home-country export regulations, credit markets, and corruption: implications for different types of internationalization. Transnational corporations, 28(2), 31-65Direct exporting activities and outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) are two types of internationalization that differ in firms’ opportunities, resources and risks. We study home-country institutional factors for internationalization and empirica... Read More about Home-country export regulations, credit markets, and corruption: implications for different types of internationalization.
Employees’ psychological characteristics and sustainable leadership in firms with high and low entrepreneurial orientation (2021)
Journal Article
Cheng, C., Chowdhury, F., Davila, A., Durst, S., & Kraus, S. (2021). Employees’ psychological characteristics and sustainable leadership in firms with high and low entrepreneurial orientation. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 31(3), 59-71In this article, we examine how individual-level psychological characteristics such as empowerment, integrity, humility, and need for cognition influence sustainable leadership behavior in firms with levels of high and low entrepreneurial orientation... Read More about Employees’ psychological characteristics and sustainable leadership in firms with high and low entrepreneurial orientation.
A dynamic relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial activity (2021)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, F., & Audretsch, D. B. (2021). A dynamic relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial activity. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 19(3), 339-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10843-021-00300-zPolicymakers have shown an interest in adopting policies that promote entrepreneurial activity. Yet, one of the major questions that remain unanswered in the entrepreneurship literature is why entrepreneurial activity varies across countries. This pa... Read More about A dynamic relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial activity.
Necessity or Opportunity? Government Size, Tax Policy, Corruption and Implications for Entrepreneurship (2021)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, F. (2022). Necessity or Opportunity? Government Size, Tax Policy, Corruption and Implications for Entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 58(4), 2025-2042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00497-2Government size, corruption, and tax policy influence individuals' motivation towards necessity or opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. Using a comparative multi-source sample across 52 countries during 2005-2015, we apply a mixed process estimation... Read More about Necessity or Opportunity? Government Size, Tax Policy, Corruption and Implications for Entrepreneurship.
Exploring the Relationship between Foreign Competition and Entrepreneurship in a Host Country (2020)
Book Chapter
Venâncio, A., & Chowdhury, F. (2020). Exploring the Relationship between Foreign Competition and Entrepreneurship in a Host Country. In T. Das (Ed.), Entrepreneurship and behavioral strategy. Information Age Publishing
Public Sector Entrepreneurship (2020)
Book Chapter
Demircioglu, M. A., Chowdhury, F., & Vivona, R. (2020). Public Sector Entrepreneurship. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance (1-6). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4002-1
Do Corruption and Regulations Matter for Home Country Nascent International Entrepreneurship? (2020)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, F. (2021). Do Corruption and Regulations Matter for Home Country Nascent International Entrepreneurship?. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 46(3), 720-759. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-020-09797-3We examine the influence of corruption and regulatory environment on the home country entrepreneurship level. Using data from 54 countries from 2005 to 2011, we find that corruption does not have a consistent negative influence on home country nascen... Read More about Do Corruption and Regulations Matter for Home Country Nascent International Entrepreneurship?.
Entrepreneurship in public organizations: the role of leadership behavior (2020)
Journal Article
Demircioglu, M. A., & Chowdhury, F. (2021). Entrepreneurship in public organizations: the role of leadership behavior. Small Business Economics, 57(3), 1107-1123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00328-wDespite increasing research on entrepreneurship in the private sector, little is known about entrepreneurship in public organizations in general and the effects of leadership behavior on entrepreneurship in the public sector in particular. Utilizing... Read More about Entrepreneurship in public organizations: the role of leadership behavior.