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PARALLEL SESSION ONE – WEDNESDAY 11:00-12:30
Business Support, Strategies and Practice
Meeting Room 6
How to design public incubator’s governance?
Fatiha Fort
Forming Business Support Policy – Case Study of the Bolton Committee
Robert Wapshott | Oliver Mallett
If you build it they still might not come: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Fields of Practice
Ben Spigel
Creative Industries Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 3
La Sape Couture! A Constellation of Consuming Passion for Fashion, Power, and Entrepreneurial emergence at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Nnamdi Madichie
Behind the Game: Survival and Growth of Game Development Businesses
Zimu Xu
Entrepreneurial Identity and Education in Field of Mountain-Bike Training
Stephen Dobson | Peter McLuskie
Enterprise Education
Meeting Room 8
Narrative Research: Both a method and the phenomenon of study
Breda O’Dwyer | Pauric McGowan
A Phenomenological Exploration of the Challenges experienced by Entrepreneurship Educators in East Africa
Andrea Lane
Student experience of Undergraduate Venture Creation Programmes in the UK
Kelly Smith | Peter Shaw
Entrepreneurial Finance
Meeting Room 4
Entrepreneurial Finance SIG AGM
Monetizing New Music Ventures through Blockchain: Utopia or Dystopia?
Robyn Owen | Marcus O’Dair
Collaboration by venture capital firms: Issues with cross-border syndication in Europe and US
Keith Arundale
Entrepreneurship in Minority Groups
Meeting Room 1
The Scope and Effectiveness of Social Networks of Transnational Entrepreneurs
Haroon Muzaffar
Explaining the entrepreneurial Intentions of Chinese Students studying in Ireland
Antoinette Flynn | Naomi Birdthistle | Boyu Fang
A conceptual framework for Indian trans women entrepreneurs: the missing pieces in the study of gender and entrepreneurship
Roshni Narendran | Shamika Almedia
Does Ethnicity Still Matter? On the relation of second/third generation ethnic entrepreneurs and institutions
Nour Ibrahim
Family and Community Business
Executive Room 10
Intra-family Successors in India: The cognitive process that depicts how education and family opens the road to the formation of family business involvement intentions
Eftychia Palamida | Despoina Xanthopoulou | Alfredo de Massis | Sunil Shukla |Savvas Papagiannidis | Umesh Menon | Pankaj Bharti
The Entrepreneur who Became a Marionette – an Active Family Context
Hanna Astner
Building a firm-hosted online community
Thomas Cyron | Leona Achtenhagen
Freelancing, Solo Self-Employment and Gig Economy Working
Executive Room 2
Is the growth of solo self-employment in the UK (in part) a consequence of the declining quality of paid employment?
Andrew Henley
Self-employment and health: the mediating role of work-related stress
Jun Li | Jingjing Qu | Ute Stephan
Preparing the Freelancers of the Future
Amy Gerrard | Isaac Amoako
The Career Development of Vocational Educated Solo Self-employed Workers – A Qualitative Study
Sjanne Marie van den Groenendaal | C. Fleisher
Gender and Enterprise
Vista Suite 1
Women Business Owners’ use of Co working spaces in Wales: Some preliminary evidence
David Pickernell | Nick Clifton | Carol Ekinsmyth | Anita Fuzi | Julienne Senyard
The Muslim woman entrepreneur through the lens of intersectionality
Nicole Lehmann
Gender and Entrepreneurs’ Resilience in Conflict-Affected Zones: Evidence from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine
Doaa Althalathini | Haya Al-Dajani | Nikolaos Apostolopoulos
Women Tech-Entrepreneurs Disrupting the norms in a masculine industry
Sally Jones | Elin Kubberöd | Inger Beate Petterson
Networks and Innovation
Executive Room 9
Bricolage, Maturity and the Small Firm: The Case of a Japanese Parts Supplier
Romano Dyerson | Robert Fitzgerald | Tatsuya Mishimagi
The Importance of Entrepreneurial Leadership for Socio-economic Value Creation
Michele Rusk | Edita Petrylaite
Self-Employment and the Relationship between Personality and Culture
Piers Thompson | Robert Huggins
Rural Enterprise
Meeting Room 5
Entrepreneurial Identity and Adoption of Precision Agricultural Tools
Marcello De Rosa | Felice Adinolfi | Luca Bartoli | Yari Vecchio | Margherita Masi
Food and Drink SME Internationalisation: Towards a Recipe for Success
Robert Bowen
The Urban-Rural Digital Divide: Investigating the Impact on Agribusiness in Wales
Wyn Morris | Robert Bowen
Taking a Systems Psychodynamic Approach to Family Farming: Uncovering Leadership in Action
Jane Glover | Kiran Trehan
Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
Meeting Room 7
The ‘icing on the cake’? Social responsibility, voice and supporter engagement at the heart of professional football
Michael Bull | Geoff Whittam
Conceptualising the articulation of social mission: Can theory and practice be reconciled?
Kate Lewis | Colette Henry
Becoming and being a moral manager
Maria Wishart | Anja Schaefer | Kristen Reid
PARALLEL SESSION TWO – WEDNESDAY 14:00-15:30
Business Support, Strategies and Practice
Meeting Room 6
University Industry Collaboration: Crafting A New Business Model through the Proximity Approach
Donatienne Delorme
Should SMEs collaborate in public sector tenders? Networks in bidding consortia
Jani Saastamoinen | Helen Reijonen | Timo Tammi
Employment effects of public innovation support measures for companies in Europe
Valentina Patrini
Creative Industries Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 3
Informing Better Arts Education by Measuring Students’ Entrepreneurial Attitudes
Sylvia Jen
A Socio-Emotional Perspective on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. The Dynamic Attributes of Edinburgh, City of Literature
Marta Bernal | Sarah Cooper
Creative Discipline Education Shaping Entrepreneurial Outcomes: methodology and student survey
Jacqueline Jenkins | Charlotte Carey | Cindy Millman | Mark Gilman
Mitigating Precarity in the Creative Industries
Adrian Wright | Dorota Marsh | Gemma Wibberley
Enterprise Education
Meeting Room 8
Promoting Authentic Learners through ‘withness’ Entrepreneurship Education
Deema Refai | Rita Klapper | David Higgins | Alain Fayolle
Trends in Entrepreneurship Education: Innovation Infrastructure
Luke Pittaway | Michelle Ferrier | Rachida Aissaoui | Paul Mass
Idea to Start-up: evaluation of the Evolve Programme for Entrepreneurs
Gabriela Matouskova | Hanna-Mari Pulli | Paul Jones
The why and how of entrepreneurial action: An integrative model based on individual values and action theory
Carlos Morales
Entrepreneurial Finance
Meeting Room 4
A preliminary approach to the study of the Crowdfunding in Latin America from the Idea.me platform
Gianni Romaní | Bastián Castillo | Andrea Lécon | Luis Miguel Rodrigo | Pía Cáceres
Is alternative finance the panacea for early stage SMEs? The UK case for improved regional policy coordination
Robyn Owen | Colin Mason | Yannis Pierrakis
Entrepreneurial Finance Journey: A new Perspective on the Finance Escalator
Ekaterina Murzacheva | Jonathan Levie
SME Alternative Finance for Bank Rejects
Eimear McGeown
Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning (2.30pm start time)
Vista Suite 2
Entrepreneurial Psychological Capital – The Factor Structure
Peter Pease | James Cunningham | Clare Cook
Inductive research in SME development and growth: a diagnostic approach
Jacob Salder | Mark Gilman
Entrepreneurship in Minority Groups
Meeting Room 1
Managing Regulatory Change in the Informal Economy: Small Firms and the National Living Wage
Monder Ram | Paul Edwards | Gugliemo Meardi | Maria Villares-Varela | Sabina Doldor
Barriers Facing New Venture Creation for Refugee Entrepreneurs
Chanel Bikorimana | Darinka Asenova | Geoff Whittam
The intersection of ethnic identity and entrepreneurial identity: an exploration rooted in the voices of African Immigrants in the UK
Tayo Korede | Andreas Giazitzoglu
Intercultural Entrepreneurship: a New Dynamic for Education?
David Rae
Family and Community
Executive Room 10
Are sustainability and responsibility central to family businesses dominant logics nexus?
Natalia Vershinina | Claire Seaman | Allan Discua Cruz | Carole Howorth
Creating a Copreneurial drama: Looking through a dramaturgical lens to interpret copreneurial start-up
Angela Carradus
Segmenting the self-employed: Implications for engaging with financial planning
Jane Lessiter | P. Borden | J. Freeman
Gender and Enterprise
Vista Suite 1
Female Entrepreneurship in Later Life
Isabella Moore
Strong structuration theory: a way to further contextualize entrepreneurship research
Nermin Elkafrawi | Annie Roos | Gerard McElwee | Deema Elrefai
Gender Equality as a Mediator of National Culture and Women’s Ownership of Business
Cristiana Kamais | Robert Engle
Constructivist Grounded Theory and Ethnography: Merging Methodologies for Research on Marginalized Female Entrepreneurs
Christine Samy
Networks and Innovation
Executive Room 9
Opening Innovation Doors through Digital Platforms: Ethnographic Insights
John Barker | Nick Clifton | Gareth Loudon
Exploratory study on the Innovation activities of Saudi Hotel SMEs
Ibrahim Hamad Alyaha | Lakshmi Narasimhan Vedanthachari
The legacy of luxury sporting events for start up and innovation: The case of repeat hosting of the America’s cup in Auckland
Stefania Romano | Colleen Mills
Rural Enterprise
Meeting Room 5
A Research Agenda for Terroir
Guy Leedon
Entrepreneurial agency in context and practice; reviving the rural
Johan Gaddefors | Alistair Anderson
Understanding the role of dynamic capabilities play within UK rural micro-enterprises
Karen Wilson | Shelley Harrington | Alex Kevill
Marketing for Equine Complementary Therapists and Stakeholder Groups for Success
Julie McKeown | Nerys Fuller-Love
Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
Meeting Room 7
Exploring the relationship between Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Public Procurement
Kim Loader
Uncovering the Microfoundations of Ecological Learning Capability in Pakistan’s leatherworking SMEs
Aqueel Wahga | Richard Blundel | Anja Schefer
CSR logics of SMEs: The case of F&B service and construction sectors in Malaysia
Juan Lee Soon | Robert Blackburn | Dirk De Clercq | Marfuga Iskandarova
Nemesis: A social alternative to enterprise education as usual
Catherine Brentnall | Cliff Southcombe
PARALLEL SESSION THREE – WEDNESDAY 16.00-17.30
Business Creation, Early Stage Development and Business Closure
Executive Room 10
Human Capital and Entrepreneurial Intention in Deprived Areas
Yuxi Zhao
Can Nudging Assist in the Promotion of Entrepreneurship?
Beulah Maas | Gideon Maas
Entrepreneurial well-being during the venture creation process: a delicate balance of conflict vs trust
Shivani Mehta | Sarah Dodd
Business Support, Strategies and Practice
Meeting Room 6
Towards the economic and social integration of refugees: A Comparison of the Economic, Social and Policy Context for refugee entrepreneurship in the U.K. and Germany
Marilena Schmich | Jay Mitra
Management of Self-management in Governmental mentoring programs for entrepreneurs
Ulrika Sjödin | Maria Bogren
Makerspaces as an incubation model: implications for policy and practice
Declan Scully
Hybridity and the rise and fall of Business Link
Kevin Mole
Enterprise Education
Meeting Room 8
Extracurricular enterprise activities as a vehicle for entrepreneurial learning: examining experiential, social and self-directed learning outcomes
Sarah Preedy | Paul Jones | Hilary Duckett | Gideon Maas
Implementation of Learning Communities within Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Education Modules
David Bozward
Towards a Simple Philosophy of Enterprise/Entrepreneurship Education and Associated Signature Pedagogy
Colin Jones
The Logic, Antecedents and Promise of Andragogy and Heutagogy for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education
Colin Jones | Kathryn Penaluna | Andrew Penaluna
Entrepreneurial Finance
Meeting Room 4
An Exploratory Study into the Alternative SME Lenders Operating in Northern Ireland
Emer Gallagher | Elaine Ramsey | Derek Bond
Understanding How Startups Use Rewards-Based Crowdfunding
Emma Green
Examination of the Entrepreneurial finance opportunities for Venture Philanthropy in Saudi Arabia from an Institutional Perspective
Mohammad Alshammari
SME growth and bank financing for impact. Empirical evidence
Richmond Lamptey
Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning
Vista Suite 2
Making Decisions for Small Business Growth: A Cognitive Style Approach
Marian Evans
Promotion and Participation of Saudi Universities towards the Development of Entrepreneurial Leadership – An Empirical Study in Saudi Arabian Context
Hassan Qusadi Almahdi | Syed Md Faisal Ali Khan
Creative Action and Four Types of Entrepreneurial Confidence
Christian Walsh | Paul Knott
Entrepreneurship in Minority Groups
Meeting Room 1
Who works in the migrant economy? The diffuse boundaries of formal and informal work
Maria Villares-Varela | Monder Ram | Trevor Jones
The Role of ‘Duality’ and ‘Hybridity’ in South Asian Entrepreneurship in the UK
Sunita Dewitt
Gender and Enterprise
Vista Suite 1
Social capital for the development of women’s enterprises
Maria Bogren
When Women Leave Corporate Career to Enter Entrepreneurship in Denmark
Helle Neergaard
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Women’s Entrepreneurship Research: A Bibliometric Analysis
Manuel Castriotta | Lene Foss | Colette Henry | Michela Loi
The societal effect: examining gender, religious, cultural and ethnic stereotypes upon female social housing residents in an entrepreneurial context
Sundas Hussain | Charlotte Carey
International Entrepreneurship
Executive Room 2
An evaluation of Total Entrepreneurial Activity and Entreprenerial Intention in African regions using Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)
Paul Jones | Malcolm Benyon | Gideon Maas | David Pickernell
SME Internationalisation through digitalisation: UK Specialist and Niche Retailers
Brenda Patil
Does Early Internationalisation Promote Performance Advantages for SMEs Post Start-Up?
Andrew Johnston | Daniel Prokop
Increasing the number of Scottish International Businesses
Jonathan Slow | Margaret Fletcher
Rural Enterprise
Meeting Room 5
Multiplier Effects of the Craft Beer Industry
Ciarán Mac an Bhaird | Juliette Wilson | Michael Danson
Does business ownership improve economic conditions and wellbeing in Uganda?
George Saridakis | Anne-Marie Mohammed | Rebeca I. Muñoz Torres | Robert Blackburn
The character of rural firms and their embeddedness in local community
Richard Ferguson | Johan Gaddefors | Iryna Kristensen
Policies and Strategies for Rural Entrepreneurship in the Least Developed Countries
John Struthers | Dina Nziku
SME Growth and Performance: Quantitative Perspectives
Executive Room 9
An fsQCA analysis of SMEs’ Growth and Innovation Intentions at English Local Enterprise Partnership Level
David Pickernell | Malcolm Benyon | Paul Jones | Shuangfa Huang
Understanding Constraints to Science and Innovation in SMEs. A Necessary First Step for Science and Innovation Policy
Mauricio Eduardo Perez Alaniz | Helena Lenihan | Justin Doran
Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
Meeting Room 7
Issues concerning the development and scaling of social enterprises – two case studies of co-operative artisan food manufacturers in France
Simon Adderley
The Rise of Hybrids: A Case Study of a Social Entrepreneurial Venture
Paulami Mitra
Entrepreneurship and Societal Impact
Ernestine Ning | Shariq Sheikh
Mapping the Eco-system of Social Enterprising
Angelo P. Bisignano | Maria De Avillez
Technology Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 3
Institutional Environment and E-commerce Development in SMEs in Developing Countries: Evidence from Nigeria
Ignatius Ekanem
Digital Entrepreneurship – Why the ‘digital’?
Kisito Futonge Nzembayie | Anthony Paul Buckley
An examination of Social Media supporting the Innovation Process
Martin Beckinsale
The Role of a Digital Hub in University-Industry Collaboration
Andrew Hirst
PARALLEL SESSION FOUR – THURSDAY 09.00-10.30
Business Creation, Early Stage Development and Business Closure
Executive Room 2
Are We Ignorant About Enterprise?
Simon Bridge
The Construction of Entrepreneurial Identity during Pre-Venture Formation
Cherisse Hoyte | Hannah Noke
Family entrepreneurial teams: business modelling and entrepreneurial learning during business start-up
Ossie Jones | Benito Giordano
Marketing Practices in the Entrepreneurial Process – Identities at Work
Hanna Astner | Johan Gaddefors
Creative Industries Entrepreneurship SIG Research Workshop and AGM
Meeting Room 3
Shaping your research journey: From ISBE to publication.
Have you got conference papers languishing unpublished? What happens when you get back after the ISBE conference? Are you keen to help build critical mass of published research in the field of Creative industries Entrepreneurship research?
If this is you, then join us for a fun and enlightening creative session to boost and help direct your route to publication, while contributing to this dynamic field of research.
Enterprise Education
Meeting Room 8
Entrepreneurial Learning Through Collaboration: The Case for Live Projects
Nicolette Michels
Does Entrepreneurship Skill Mediate Entrepreneurial Intention in a Turbulent Environment?
Oluwaseun Kolade
Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning
Vista Suite 2
SME Growth in a Recession: Contextualised Customer Focus Strategy
Milan Gyanwali
Open entrepreneurship: a new dynamic for creating value?
David Rae
Learning to become an entrepreneurial practitioner at university – getting off to a good start, or A Conceptual Framework for Entrepreneurship Education
Lucy Hatt
Honouring the ordinary: practice as holding space for reflection and learning
Rachelle Andrews | Jana Filosof
Freelancing, Solo Self-Employment and Gig Economy Working
Executive Room 10
What Do Starting Motives Say About Solo Self-employed Workers?
Sjanne Marie van den Groenendaal | S. Rossetti | M. van de Bergh | T.A. M. Kooij | C. Freese | R. Poell
Case Study of Agile Processes Implementation in the Gig-Economy
Alan Pooley | Jin Chan
Gender and Enterprise
Vista Suite 1
Entrepreneurship and Identity: The case for forcibly displaced migrants
Ketch Adeeko | Susan Marlow | Lorna Treanor
The role of ‘significant others’ in the gendered social construction of entrepreneurial identity and narrative
Robert Smith | Lorraine Warren
Performing Masculinity Through Enterprise: Syrian Male Refugee Artisans in Jordan
Haya Al-Dajani | Marta Hawkins | Geoff Wilson | Hoayda Darkal
Female entrepreneurship: a navigation of the field and ways forward
Vladi Finotto | Bede Akorige Atarah
International Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 1
What Drives Enterprise Growth Within Transitional Economies? Evidence from Bandung, Indonesia
Aineias Gkikas
The Impact of Foreign Influence on Exporting through Open Innovation
Wenyu Zang |Piers Thompson
Do Institutions Matter in Different Phases of Entrepreneurship? A Multi-Country Study
Claudia Alvarez | Tatiana Lopez | David Urbano
The relationship between training and performance in internationalised and non-internationalised SMEs: Is it different?
Bochra Idris | George Saridakis
Networks and Innovation
Executive Room 9
Innovating into trouble: When innovation leads to customer resistance
Jane Bourke | Stephen Roper
The relationship between the performance of knowledge management and SMEs innovation activities
Hartmut-Heinrich Meyer | Thomas Heupel | Bastian Paulsen
Industry 4.0 is coming: Is digital adoption a new mechanism linking entrepreneurial ambition to business performance? Evidence from micro-businesses in the UK, Ireland and USA
Jane Bourke |Stephen Roper
Rural Enterprise
Meeting Room 5
Challenges of Sustainable Rural Enterprise Development in North Sri Lanka
Jeyald Antony
Escaping the Iron Cage: Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Syrian Refugees
Deema Refai | John Lever | Radi Haloub |Jamil Samawi
PARALLEL SESSION FIVE – THURSDAY 11.00-12.30
Business Creation, Early Stage Development and Business Closure
Executive Room 2
Promotion of entrepreneurial activities by the entrepreneurial eco-system. GEM Data Analysis between Germany and Slovakia
Hartmut-Heinrich Meyer | Bastian Paulsen | Thomas Heupel
Small Business Failure: Bad Luck or Dice Thrown? An Empirical Investigation In The Context of Saudi Arabia
Motaz Alsolaim
‘Going out on your own’: Modelling Emergent Entrepreneuring in the Construction Industry
Colleen Mills
Technology Angel Investors – the Role of Customer Validation and Pivoting
Gregory Fleet | Daniel Doiron
Creative Industries Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 3
Funding the Creative Industries Start-up in Emerging Markets
Jurry Hatammimi | Nora Amelda Rizal
Measuring entrepreneurial orientation of firms in the creative and cultural sector
Jin Chan | Hooi Hooi Lean
Collaborative Conversation in researching Creative Industries Entrepreneurship: the key to impact and publication
Stefania Romano | Charlotte Carey
Developing Creative Business & Entrepreneurial Ecosystems to Influence Cultural Policy
Jan Brown |Ian Fillis
Enterprise Education
Meeting Room 8
Constructing Stories: Narrative analysis as a method for exploring identity within entrepreneurship education
Kellie Forbes-Simpson
Problematising the Philosophical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Education: from Invisible College to Echo Chamber
Catherine Brentnall | David Higgins
Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial behaviour in disadvantaged sub-Saharan African communities
Paschal Anosike
Entrepreneurial Finance
Meeting Room 4
Designing a pro-poor credit risk management system for financial inclusiveness: An empirical analysis
Victor Atiase | Joan Lockyer
Exploring the key drivers in Reward based Capital Crowdfunding for the crowd to invest in Start-ups
Ying Zhao | Phil Harris | Wing Lam
External management accounting in small and medium-sized enterprises
Serap Demiroez | Thomas Heupel
Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning
Vista Suite 2
Evaluating Entrepreneurial Learning from Failure Through a Grief Lens
Adam Shore | Luke Pittaway | Thomas Bortolotti
Understanding the Process of Leader Transitions in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Simon Raby | Julie Choi
Exploring Owner Managers’ Disparate World Views About People Management
Charles Dahwa
Stimulating learning in micro-business owners through introducing external perspectives
Fiona Whitehurst | Paul Richter | Leigh Sear
Gender and Enterprise
Vista Suite 1
Man’s and Women’s trading worlds: exploring interrelation between marketplace and home-based enterprises in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Muhammad Khan
Exploring the Characteristics for Success of female-owned business venture in Southern Thailand
Thathira Siriphan | Seng Kok | Seamus O’Brien
Navigating Entrepreneurial Leadership Through Discursive Blending: Women’s Experiences of Gender
Nicola Patterson
Arab Entrepreneurs Gender and Careers Success
Hayfaa Tlaiss | Helle Neergaard
Enhancing Female Engagement in Community Enterprise Initiatives
Fiona Hesselden
International Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 1
Leveraging Embeddedness in Accelerator Networks – A Study of Internationalizing Startups
Anette Kairikko | Luca Cacciolatti | Spinder Dhaliwal
Does Guanxi Help or Hinder Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Study of the Impact of Guanxi on Chinese Entrepreneur’s Business Performance?
Joan Lockyer | Jessica An | Gerry Urwin
Bricolage as a Strategy for Business Development Amongst Entrepreneurs in Resource Constrained Environments: A Tale of Two Cuban Hairdressers
Declan Scully
Public Sector Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 5
First Steps towards Hybrid Forms of Service Provision in Municipalities
Satu Aaltonen | Tanja Lepistö |Ulla Hytti
Public Sector Entrepreneurship in a Post Recession Pre-Brexit Ireland?
Josephine Browne
A Framework for Understanding Opportunity Recognition Process in the UK Entrepreneurial Universities
Alvin Aldawod
SME Growth and Performance: Quantitative Perspectives
Executive Room 9
Persistence and impact of high growth on profits: the case of young firms
Joan-Lluís Capelleras | Juan Federico
Management Capability, Business Support and the Performance Micro-businesses in the UK
Andrew Henley | Meng Song
Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
Meeting Room 7
Narrating The ‘Social’: The Storytelling Of Pakistan’s Social Entrepreneurs In A Changing Society
James Cunningham | Lin Xiong | Sohail Younis | Hina Hashim
Social Value Creation within Social Enterprise Places: A Case Study of the Cities of Salford and Plymouth
Fredrick Ogunoye | Morven G. McEachern | Kevin Kane
Social entrepreneurship as an intentional career choice for women
Sarah Stevenson
The decline of charities in Kent: How charity is pursuing an extended growth in its lifecycle?
Ihator Brown | Jin Chan
Technology Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 6
Business incubators and development-led entrepreneurship: a focus on entrepreneurial path-creation
Michael Ngoasong |Sam Njinyah | Richmond Lamptey
Determinant Factors of Internet Marketing Adoption: An Exploratory Study of Iranian SMEs in Distribution Sector
Sepideh Zahiri | Hatem El-Gohary | Javed Hussain
Investigating You Tube Entrepreneurship
Amy Gerrard
PARALLEL SESSION SIX – THURSDAY 14.00-15.30
Business Creation, Early Stage Development and Business Closure
Executive Room 2
Pre-Accelerator Program Efficacy: The Venture Validation Program – A Longitudinal Study
Gregory Fleet | Daniel Doiron
Understanding HRM in SMEs: An Application of Event Systems Theory
Brian Harney | Simon Raby
Joining The Dots: The Relationship Between Key Growth Factors in Small Firms
Samantha Burvill | Louisa Huxtable-Thomas
Enterprise Education
Meeting Room 8
Academics Living Labs: From traditional teaching to student empowerment
Augusto Nobre | Carlos Abreu | Zulmara Carvalho | Efrain Pantaleon | Felipe Zumba | Heitor Oliveira | Jefferson Rafael Lira | Naiara Oliveira | Rayane Cãmara | Pamella Freitas | Uderlan França | Allyson Diniz
An Ecosystem Approach to Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Campuses
Su-Hyun Berg | Jay Mitra
The Benefits and Impact of using Online Journals in Higher Education Enterprise Education
Janette Young
Entrepreneurial Finance
Meeting Room 4
An empirical analysis of the role of Foreign Venture Capital investments in the company’s likelihood to exit
Yannis Pierrakis | Babangida Kure Yohanna
Financial Practices and Perceptions of SME Growth Business owners
Yolanda Gibb
The Geography of Foreign Venture Capital Investments (FVCI) in UK Regions
Babangida Kure Yohanna | Yannis Pierrakis
Are Business Accelerators Effective?
Ciarán Mac an Bhaird | Nouf Ainasser
Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning
Vista Suite 2
Researcher Learning through social poetics: self reflexivity within a dialogical framework of methodological practice
Barbara Wilczek | David Higgins | Deema Refai
Entrepreneurship; an anticipatory perspective
Ted Fuller | Elena Antonacopoulou
Deepening the practise of Engaged scholarship: Critical reflective practices in food supply chains
Jane Glover | Anne Touboulic | Kiran Trehan
Beyond Scarce Resources: Conceptualising Small Firm Tendering Capability
Paula Turner | Julia Rouse
Gender and Enterprise
Vista Suite 1
The role of microfinance institutional logics in the women’s entrepreneurship development
Samia Mahmood | Seemab Ara Farooqi
Rethinking Sustainability and Small Scale African Female Entrepreneurs
Ernestine Ning
Tanzanian Women Entrepreneurship: Does SMEs Strategies Contribute to Women Entrepreneurship Policy
Dina Nziku
Federal Procurement as a Policy Lever to Support Innovation and SME Growth
Barbara Orser | Allan Riding | Diane Liao | Jérome Catimel | Quang Dong
International Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 1
Evaluating competing theorizations of informal entrepreneurship: a perspective from Pakistan
Muhammad Shehryar
Evaluating Business Exit: A Country Level Analysis using fsQCA
David Pickernell | Malcolm Beynon | Paul Jones | Martina Battisti
SMEs internationalisation: When does innovation matter?
George Saridakis | Bochra Idris | Jared M Hansen | Léo-Paul Dana
Managerial attributes and collaborative behaviours as determinants of export propensity: Evidence from Turkish SMEs
Ali Kemal Celik | Mohamed Yacine Haddoud | Adah Onjewu
SME Growth and Performance: Quantitative Perspectives
Executive Room 9
Doubly Disadvantaged: Gender, Community Deprivation and Entrepreneurial Activity
Sreevas Sahasranamam | Ekaterina Murzacheva | Jonathan Levie
Getting transformational advice: perception and matching performance
Kevin Mole | Robyn Owen | David North
When innovation best improves performance of SME manufacturing firms
George Saridakis | Grammatoula Papaioannou | Bochra Idris | Jared M. Hansen
Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
Meeting Room 7
Community management of scarce natural resources in NE Kenya: the role of collective memory
Matthew Snell | Jim McAuley
SME effects of a transition environment: Brexit and the Green sector
Jacob Salder | Sundas Hussain
Technology Entrepreneurship
Meeting Room 6
Great Expectations: Entrepreneurship Education to promote STEMM Women’s Entrepreneurial and Commercialisation Activity
Lorna Treanor
Fostering Technology Entrepreneurs’ Career Choice: an Empirical Study Amongst Chinese University Students
Yifan Wang | Pauric McGowan