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Professor Paul Westhead's Outputs (70)

Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: the role of autonomy and job satisfaction (2022)
Journal Article
Tahar, Y. B., Rejeb, N., Maalaoui, A., Kraus, S., Westhead, P., & Jones, P. (2023). Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: the role of autonomy and job satisfaction. Small Business Economics, 61, 701–716. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-022-00702-w

Entrepreneurs can exhibit the entrepreneurial burnout syndrome, which retards entrepreneur and firm performance. Building upon insights from the conservation of resources theory of stress response and psychology theory, this study examined the role o... Read More about Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: the role of autonomy and job satisfaction.

Entrepreneurs’ human capital resources and tourism firm sales growth: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Kallmuenzer, A., Baptista, R., Kraus, S., Ribeiro, A., Cheng, C., & Westhead, P. (2021). Entrepreneurs’ human capital resources and tourism firm sales growth: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. Tourism Management Perspectives, 38, Article 100801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100801

New private tourism firms play a key role in promoting local and national wealth creation. Building upon insights from entrepreneurial motivation and human capital theories, in this study fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of longitudinal dat... Read More about Entrepreneurs’ human capital resources and tourism firm sales growth: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis.

Fostering of Entrepreneurship Competencies and Entrepreneurial Intentions in a Weak Ecosystem (2019)
Journal Article
Solesvik, M., & Westhead, P. (2019). Fostering of Entrepreneurship Competencies and Entrepreneurial Intentions in a Weak Ecosystem. https://doi.org/10.17323/2500-2597.2019.4.60.68

This exploratory study conducted in the transitional context of Ukraine explores whether students drawn from a supportive entrepreneurship education (EE) reported higher intensity of entrepreneurial intention (IOEI) than students that did not partici... Read More about Fostering of Entrepreneurship Competencies and Entrepreneurial Intentions in a Weak Ecosystem.

Linking relationship marketing to social embeddedness in a rural bilingual context (2017)
Journal Article
Parry, S., & Westhead, P. (2017). Linking relationship marketing to social embeddedness in a rural bilingual context. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 24(2), 261-277. https://doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-10-2016-0160

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolution of relationship marketing (RM) in a new technology-based firm (NTBF) and to illustrate how social embeddednesss benefits can be achieved by engaging in RM in a rural resource-constrained b... Read More about Linking relationship marketing to social embeddedness in a rural bilingual context.

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Westhead, P., & Wright, M. (2016). Introduction. In The habitual entrepreneur (1-11). Routledge

Company Metamorphosis: Professionalization Waves, Family Firms and Management Buyouts (2016)
Journal Article
Howorth, C., Wright, M., Westhead, P., & Allcock, D. (2016). Company Metamorphosis: Professionalization Waves, Family Firms and Management Buyouts. Small Business Economics, 47(3), 803-817. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9761-6

We explore the process of professionalization pre- and post-buyout (MBO) or buyin (MBI) of former private family firms using longitudinal evidence from six UK family firms undergoing an MBO/I in 1998. Professionalization behaviour was monitored up to... Read More about Company Metamorphosis: Professionalization Waves, Family Firms and Management Buyouts.

Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: Do female students benefit? (2015)
Journal Article
Westhead, P., & Solesvik, M. (2016). Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: Do female students benefit?. International Small Business Journal, 34(8), 979-1003. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242615612534

This article explores links between entrepreneurship education (EE) participation, alertness and risk-taking skills and the intensity of entrepreneurial intention relating to becoming an entrepreneur. Guided by insights from human capital and sociall... Read More about Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: Do female students benefit?.

The Habitual Entrepreneur Phenomenon (2014)
Journal Article
Westhead, P., & Wright, M. (2015). The Habitual Entrepreneur Phenomenon. International Small Business Journal, Virtual Special Issue, 1-16

Despite growing media, practitioner and academic interest and activity relating to the entrepreneurship phenomenon, considerable debate surrounds the notion of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. It is very difficult to present an over-arching theory... Read More about The Habitual Entrepreneur Phenomenon.

Environmental Certification as a Buffer Against the Liabilities of Newness and Smallness: Firm Performance Benefits (2013)
Journal Article
Djupdal, K., & Westhead, P. (2015). Environmental Certification as a Buffer Against the Liabilities of Newness and Smallness: Firm Performance Benefits. International Small Business Journal, 33(2), 148-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242613486688

Sustainable entrepreneurship encourages a focus on innovation, efficiency and environmentally-friendly actions. Certification enables firms to accumulate legitimacy that enables stakeholders to know of, and understand, a firm’s activities: it is a me... Read More about Environmental Certification as a Buffer Against the Liabilities of Newness and Smallness: Firm Performance Benefits.

Habitual Entrepreneurs. (2012)
Book Chapter
Wright, M., Westhead, P., & Ucbasaran, D. (2012). Habitual Entrepreneurs. In S. Carter, & D. Jones-Evans (Eds.), Enterprise and Small Business: Principles, Practice and Policy (252-267). Harlow: Pearson Education Limited