With thanks to the ISBE 2021 Track Chairs and their teams
Best paper in Business Creation, Early Stage Development and Business Closure
“Antecedents of entrepreneurship intention: An Exploration of Intentions of SMEs in Scotland”
Yaw Afari, University of the West of Scotland
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Best paper in Business Support, Strategies and Practice
“Providing Business Support To Women – Enlightening Common Sense”
Debra Blisson, Falmouth University
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Best paper in Creative Industries Entrepreneurship
“Reframing Sustainability in Small Artist-Led Organisations: Bridging Policy and Practice”
Benedetta d’Ettorre, University of Leeds
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Best paper in Enterprise Education
“Enterprise Education Competition, Gendered Barriers, and STEMM Early Career Researchers’ Entrepreneurial Intentions”
Sahattaya (Pai) Achtzehn, Lorna Treanor and Kevin Amess, University of Nottingham
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Best paper in Entrepreneurial Finance
“Is Non-Bank Lending Closing SME Funding Gaps?”
Eiméar McGeown, Bernadette Power and Edward Shinnick, University College Cork
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Best paper in Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning
“The Promise of Using Entrepreneur Generated Video Reflections in Entrepreneurship Research”
Fiona Whitehurst, Paul Richter and Andrew Fairley, Newcastle University
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Best paper in Family and Community Business
“A Micro-Sociological Approach to Understanding the Impact of Unpaid Wages on Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Family Businesses”
Bridget Irene, Joan Lockyer, Cherisse Hoyte and Sunita Dewitt, Coventry University
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Best paper in Freelancing, Solo Self-Employment and Gig Economy
“Income Protection for Micro-entrepreneurs Under Covid19: Serving Neoliberal Interests Or Small Traders?”
Julia Rouse and Rebecca Weicht, Manchester Metropolitan University, Mark Hart and Neha Prashar , Aston University
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Best paper in Gender and Enterprise
““They don’t waste money on women”: Gendered entrepreneurial household firm dynamics and the total social organisation of labour”
Mary Joy Baloyo and Sally Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Best paper in International Entrepreneurship
“The Curvilinear Relationship Between Digitalization and Export Propensity Among Emerging Market SMEs: The Moderating Role of Corruption”
Chao Zhang, Joan Lluís Capelleras, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Victor Martin-Sanchez, University of Southern Denmark
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Best paper in Networks, Innovation & Policy
“4theRegion: A Network Approach to Regional Development in Swansea Bay”
Robert Bowen, Samantha Burvill, Beth Cummings, Leonie Themelidis, Swansea University
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Best paper in Rural Enterprise
“Developing Organisational Resilience to Fundamental Crises: An Evaluation of Social Media as a key Enabler for Resource Bricolage within Rural SME’s”
Dafydd Cotterell, Swansea University
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Best paper in SME Growth and Performance
“Bridging Academic and Practitioner Definitions of Scaling Businesses”
Sarah Bohan, Jonathan Levie, Tejal Sarang and Esther Tippman, National University of Ireland Galway
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Best paper in Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
“SPO Business Model Innovation: Fostering value co-creation through a value-network”
Bernadette Best, Queens University Belfast, Kristel Miller and Rodney McAdam, Ulster University
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Alistair Anderson Award for Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher
““They don’t waste money on women”: Gendered entrepreneurial household firm dynamics and the total social organisation of labour”
Mary Joy Baloyo and Sally Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Best Research and Knowledge Exchange Paper Award
“Exploring the Role of the University Entrepreneurial Finance Ecosystem: A ‘WHO’ study of Why it is required? How it operates? Outcomes delivered?”
Robyn Owen and Lakshmi Narasimhan Vedanthachari, Middlesex University
Best Conference Paper 2021
“Income Protection for Micro-entrepreneurs Under Covid19: Serving Neoliberal Interests Or Small Traders?”
Julia Rouse and Rebecca Weicht, Manchester Metropolitan University, Mark Hart and Neha Prasher, Aston University
Congratulations to all our winners!