Supporting the birth and development of innovative small firms, ie, start-up incubation, has
emerged as a critical factor in fostering entrepreneurship, innovation, regional development …

Orientation: This article argues that the best practice approach (BPA) to HRM fails to capture
the peculiarities of HR practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The article …

Cultured meat, ie meat produced in vitro using animal stem cells, heralds a paradigm shift in
the global food system. In addition, cultured meat has the potential to substantially reduce …

Achieving preferred customer status with suppliers helps startups to mobilize suppliers'
resources. However, in purchasing, startups also compete against large buyers for suppliers' …

Immigrant entrepreneurs face many challenges in the various early phases of their
companies' existence. These challenges are often referred to as “the liability of newness” …

Purpose Customer value propositions are promoted as critical for technology startups.
However, empirical evidence supporting the beneficial effects of startups using customer …

Purpose To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper is a first attempt to deal with the
phenomenon of new venture failure from the business network perspective of the Industrial …

Failure is a crucial event that can occur at any time during the entrepreneurial/start-up
process. Understanding what influences the failure or survival of new ventures is …

Purpose This study aims to explore how the business incubation industry (BII) is dealing with
the emerging challenges posed by the on-going transition toward an environmentally …

The paper's main purpose is to analyse newness and heritage, and what form it may take, in
the context of university spin-offs (USOs). The empirical research is based on two cases of …