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Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management (2024)
Journal Article
Kimmitt, J., & Muñoz, P. (2024). Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management. Organization, 31(7), 1113-1135. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231196102

Despite long-standing criticisms of the paradigm, New Public Management (NPM) retains a strong influence over organizations in public administration. Social Impact Bonds (SIB) are an outcomes-oriented investment entity which has emerged from NPM with... Read More about Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management.

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

Institutional Work in Freemasonry: Secrecy and Masonic Ritual (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, D. (2024). Institutional Work in Freemasonry: Secrecy and Masonic Ritual. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.10640abstract

Secrecy shapes both behavior and interactions within organizations, emphasizing that secrecy is much more than a static tactic of information concealment but is instead a social process that is at the heart of the microfoundations of organizations. W... Read More about Institutional Work in Freemasonry: Secrecy and Masonic Ritual.

Academic-Industry Engagement: The Role of Machine Learning in Predicting Contract Research Outcomes (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Ao, J., Bock, A. J., & Schlegel, V. (2024). Academic-Industry Engagement: The Role of Machine Learning in Predicting Contract Research Outcomes. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.10620abstract

Academic-industry engagement, such as contract research, facilitates the development of university-centered entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs). Research implies that the language utilized within contract research proposals is critical in determining... Read More about Academic-Industry Engagement: The Role of Machine Learning in Predicting Contract Research Outcomes.

How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development (2024)
Journal Article
Muñoz, P., Farny, S., Kibler, E., & Salmivaara, V. (2024). How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development. Business & Society, 63(8), 1842-1886. 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 among stakeholders. In this study, we draw on the not... 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Muñoz, P., & Gamble, E. (2024). When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36(9-10), 1161-1187. 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)
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/s10961-023-10045-7

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)
Journal Article
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, 63(4), 1615-1639. 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.

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.2023.104942

How 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.

Varieties of Time in Business Sustainability Research: An Integrative Review and Research Agenda (2023)
Journal Article
Morales-Raya, M., & Muñoz, P. (2024). Varieties of Time in Business Sustainability Research: An Integrative Review and Research Agenda. Organization and Environment, 37(2), 257-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266231210610

In this article, we tackle the lack of clarity in the conceptualization and substantive use of time in business sustainability research. We do so by means of an integrative review that synthesizes 172 papers published over the last 20 years across se... Read More about Varieties of Time in Business Sustainability Research: An Integrative Review and Research Agenda.

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.e00430

This 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.

What Changes and Opportunities Does Big Data Analytics Capability Bring to Strategic Alliance Research? A Systematic Literature Review (2023)
Journal Article
Xia, S., Song, J., Ameen, N., Vrontis, D., Yan, J., & Chen, F. (2024). What Changes and Opportunities Does Big Data Analytics Capability Bring to Strategic Alliance Research? A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Management Reviews, 26(1), 34-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12350

Strategic alliance theories have been studied widely over the past few decades. However, their key arguments may face new limitations and challenges brought by emerging technologies such as big data analytics capability (BDAC). This paper aims to ide... Read More about What Changes and Opportunities Does Big Data Analytics Capability Bring to Strategic Alliance Research? A Systematic Literature Review.

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-w

A 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.

How does technological opportunism affect firm performance? The mediating role of resource orchestration (2023)
Journal Article
Li, L., Chen, L., Yan, J., Xu, C., & Jiang, N. (2023). How does technological opportunism affect firm performance? The mediating role of resource orchestration. Journal of Business Research, 166, Article 114093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114093

Despite widespread acknowledgment of the disruptive effects of digital technologies on firm performance, the mechanisms underlying such effects have not been adequately explained. To fill this gap, we consider two sub-components of technological oppo... Read More about How does technological opportunism affect firm performance? The mediating role of resource orchestration.

Outcomes-based Contracting and Public Management Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Experimentation (2023)
Journal Article
FitzGerald, C., Fraser, A., Kimmitt, J., Knoll, L., & Williams, J. (2023). Outcomes-based Contracting and Public Management Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Experimentation. International Public Management Journal, 26(3), 329-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2170504

A decade after the launch of the world’s first social impact bond (SIB) at Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough in England, a further 250 SIBs have been developed in over 30 countries raising over $750 m (USD) of capital and serving some 1.7 million peo... Read More about Outcomes-based Contracting and Public Management Reform: Lessons from a Decade of Experimentation.

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-y

Incubators 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?.