ISBE 2022 Best Paper Finalists

Business Creation, Early Stage Development and Business Closure

Survival of Seeded Irish Firms
Daragh O’Leary, Bernadette Power, Justin Doran

Why do founders choose to exit via Employee Ownership? A comparative analysis of employee-owned businesses in the UK
Aneesh Banerjee, Robert Blackburn, Ajay Bhalla

Role Modeling During the Creation of a New Business: A Qualitative Life-Course Analysis
Riccardo Nucci, Orla Byrne, Dimo Dimov

Business Support, Strategies and Practice

Regional development and raising entrepreneurial opportunity post-pandemic: an historical institutionalist perspective on the lessons learned
Oliver Mallett, Robert Wapshott, Nazila Wilson

The Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Growth Objectives in Determining SME Participation in Public Procurement and Performance
Jani Saastamoinen, Helen Reijonen, Timo Tammi

Forest Reflections
Simon Bridge

Creative Industries Entrepreneurship

Digital Business Model Innovation in Performing Arts Enterprises – An Emergent Framework
Kadja Manninen, Chris James Carter

Creative Enterprise in the Community: A Convergence of Place and Scene
James Cunningham

Enterprise Education

An Appraisal of the compulsory entrepreneurship education programme (EEP) in Nigeria in relation to the attainment of its objective.
Eunice Oluwakemi Chukwuma-Nwuba

Integrating Higher Degree Education with Practice: Exploring the Value Proposition of Executive MBA Apprenticeships
Marian Evans, Martin Cloutier

Learning through Scribbles…………………collaborative auto ethnographic approach to teaching
David Higgins, Deema Refai

Entrepreneurial Finance

How angel investors approach due diligence: A case study on Henley Business Angels
Keith Arundale, Colin Mason

Investors’ Behaviour in Equity Crowdfunding
Catherine Deffains-Crapsky, Enareta Kurtbegu, Bruno Séjourné, Alessandro GIOVANNI GRASSO

Non-Bank Debt Financing and Small Firm Performance
Eimear McGeown, Bernadette Power, Edward Shinnick

The Future of UK SME Sustainable Finance: Why Biodiversity (‘FinBio’) is the Next Frontier
Robyn Owen, Suman Lodh, Fergus Lyon, Amy Burnett, Alirez Rohani, Ian Vickers

Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning

Entrepreneurial learning in women who engage in interconnected selling: understanding the how
Doyin Olorunfemi

Exploring the role of Collective Intelligence in Entrepreneurial Practitioner Learning
David Rae, Per Blenker

Identifying Sustainable Business Opportunities: The Role of Entrepreneurial Learning
Oswald jones, Fernando Lourenco, Ranis Cheng, Dilani Jayawarna

Entrepreneurship in Minority Groups

Embedding in radically new environments: Exploring the emerging tensions and discursive positionings of urban indigenous entrepreneurs
Sebastián Barros, Mariana Lazzaro

Necessity-based Business Model Pivoting by Immigrant Food Entrepreneurs to COVID-19
Anna Murphy, Joe Bogue, Brian O’Flaherty

Chinese Guanxi in the UK: Entrepreneurs’ Social Capital and Multi-layered Embeddedness of Entrepreneurship Contextualisation
Xiaojue (Jessica) An, Esin Yoruk

Family and Community Business 

Levelling up or levelling out? What impact do family firms have on the economy and local communities?
Kiran Trehan, Jane Glover, Alex Kevill, Amanda Selvaratnam

Family successors in the succession process of family firms
Yingzhu Lin, Samuel Appleton, Alfredo De Massis, Ling Chen 

Gender and Enterprise

“I would like to make a proper go of it but it’s really scary”: Enforced liminality and women’s informal self-employment in a context of welfare dependency
Sally Jones, Sara Nadin

Mythbusting meritocracy: an intersectional feminist labour market perspective on racial capitalism and UK self-employment
Angela Martinez Dy, Dilani Jayawarna, Susan Marlow

How has women’s entrepreneurship been reconstructed: Exploring explanations of long-term trends
Robert Bennett

International Entrepreneurship

Growth challenges of entrepreneurial artisanal firms in Chiniot furniture cluster of Pakistan: What policy can offer?
Aqueel Wahga, Haider Ali

Collaborative Innovation: A Solution to the Dilemma of Family Firm Internationalization?
Chao Zhang, Victor Martin-Sanchez, Joan-Lluis Capelleras

Spiritual Agility-Enterprise Agility: A New Approach to Social Entrepreneurship in Nigeria
Ayodele Osunmakinde

Networks, Innovation and Policy

From entrepreneurial (EE) to purposeful ecosystems (PE) in Wales in a post covid era
Samantha Burvill, Robert Bowen, Beth Cummings

Compensation and exploitation behaviours in the innovation strategies of rural firms: Econometric evidence for the UK
Serdal Ozusaglam, Stephen Roper

Social Infrastructure and Marginal Entrepreneurship
Tomasz Mickiewicz, Anastasia Ri, Neha Prashar, Mark Hart

Research Methods, Practice and Inquiry/Impact (RMPI)

The impactful potential of realist methodologies for entrepreneurship studies
Robert Wapshott, Oliver Mallett

Critical Realism as a framework for facilitating engaged and collaborative research and policy development in diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems
Steve Johnson

Critical Realist Perspectives in Entrepreneurship Research: A Scoping Review
Suman Bhattacharya

Rural Enterprise

Crisis, What Crisis? Business Resilience and Risk Planning in Rural SMEs in Three English Regions
Maria Wishart, Kevin Mole

Developing a New Farmer Segmentation Framework: A Tool for Assessing the Entrepreneurial Capabilities of UK upland farmers.
Peter Gittins

Entrepreneurial Diversification and Rural Farm Support Policy in Post-Brexit Britain
Andrew Henley, Wyn Morris

SME Growth and Performance: quantitative perspectives

Digitalisation and SMEs’ environmental performance: New empirical evidence on the direct and indirect effects of digital technologies
Hoang Minh Luong, Effie Kesidou, Anastasia Ri

Twin Net zero and Digital transition – myth or reality? Evidence from UK SMEs
Effie Kesidou, Stephen Roper, Anastasia Ri

Exploring double heterogeneity in digital adoption decisions
Jane Bourke, Stephen Roper, Niamh Lenihan

Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise

The alignment of Circular Economy Business Models [CEBMs] with the strategies of Maltese small enterprises
Carmelina Frendo, Alfred Packer, Ronald Aquilina

Unlocking Small Business Value(s): A Pragmatist Conceptualisation
Simon Oldham

Strategic sensemaking: how social enterprises contribute to regional development
Michael Price, Nick Wong

Technology Entrepreneurship

The role of technicians in knowledge exchange: A research agenda
Hannah Noke, Simon Mosey, Kelly Vere

Marketing Performance in Digital Era: Determinant Factors of E-Marketing Adoption of Iranian Distribution SMEs
Sepideh Zahiri

Surviving Dominant Digital Platform Ecosystems: Strategies for Small Digital Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurs
Kisito Futonge Nzembayie, Natasha Evers, David Urbano

The ISBE President’s Best Early Career Researcher Paper & Alistair Anderson ERD Publication Prize for an ECR – Finalists 

Resilience in small business leaders and the link to resilience planning in their firms
Maria Wishart, Halima Jibril, Stephen Roper

From entrepreneurial (EE) to purposeful ecosystems (PE) in Wales in a post covid era
Samantha Burvill, Robert Bowen, Beth Cummings

Twin Net zero and Digital transition – myth or reality? Evidence from UK SMEs
Effie Kesidou, Stephen Roper, Anastasia Ri

“Is it worth it?” An intersectional exploration of the role of income and household position in women’s decision to continue or exit entrepreneurship.
Sarah Marks

Research and Knowledge Exchange

“Stay Home, Save SMEs”?: An exploratory study of the financial impact of the ‘short’ 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on small businesses in Aotearoa New Zealand
Abhishek Mukherjee, Jonathan Scott, David Deakins, Paul McGlade

The contribution of entrepreneurs to the development of Rural Jordan – The case of Deserttulip
Deema Refai, Nermin Elkafrawi

How has women’s entrepreneurship been reconstructed: Exploring explanations of long-term trends
Robert Bennett

The geography of graduate entrepreneurship: The case of Universities in England
Shuangfa Huang, David Pickernell, Malcolm Beynon, Martina Battisti, Paul Jones

Best Conference 2022 Paper

Mythbusting meritocracy: an intersectional feminist labour market perspective on racial capitalism and UK self-employment
Angela Martinez Dy, Dilani Jayawarna, Susan Marlow

Compensation and exploitation behaviours in the innovation strategies of rural firms: Econometric evidence for the UK
Serdal Ozusaglam, Stephen Roper

Critical Realism as a framework for facilitating engaged and collaborative research and policy development in diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems
Steve Johnson

Twin Net zero and Digital transition – myth or reality? Evidence from UK SMEs
Effie Kesidou, Stephen Roper, Anastasia Ri.