Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Helping Unemployed People Into Work is a Social and Economic Good
Marc Cowling and Ondřej Dvouletý reflect on their article, “UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs,” which was […]
Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book
Professor Paschal Anosike, author of the new book ‘Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa,’ has received the second Sage Social Justice Book Award.
What Do We Know About Entrepreneurship and Peace? And What Do We Need to Find Out?
As violent conflicts become both more pervasive and more localized, a better understanding of how entrepreneurship and peace interact in conflict zones will prove most useful.
How We Talk About Entrepreneurship Inhibits Women’s Entrepreneurship
Society, the authors, find, suppresses women’s entrepreneurship just by the way it talks about entrepreneurs.
Funking Up the Domain: How Outliers Skew Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
We know that one outlier has the potential to influence the size and direction of effects, the significance of hypothesized relationships, and significantly alter the results of published works, but what happens when there are dozens of outliers in a sample?
The More Enthusiastic, the Better? Lessons from Crowdfunding
Surely an entrepreneur’s pitch should be enthusiastic and passionate, right? Well, the authors’ research finds that there are instances where unbridled enthusiasm, especially without accompanying expertise, turns off funders.
Listening to Individual, Social, and Cultural Signals Can Lead to a Novel and Successful Business
Immanent sensemaking highlights the everyday practices through which entrepreneurs interact with, interpret, and account for their experience of reality.
Entrepreneurs: Everybody Needs Somebody
Authors Aviel Cogan, Tobias Pret, and Melissa Cardon reflect on their recent article “Everyday social support processes: Household members’ instrumental and emotional […]
