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Past research papers
2023
Ben-Hafaiedh, C., Xheneti, M., Stenholm, P., Blackburn, R., Welter, F., & Urbano, D. (2023). The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research. SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-023-00770-6
Blackburn, R., Dibb, S., & Tonks, I. (2023). Business and Management Studies in the United Kingdom's 2021 Research Excellence Framework: Implications for Research Quality Assessment. BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12721
Blackburn, R., Do, H., Vecchiato, R., & Pierrakis, Y. (2023). Innovation and Foresight in SMEs: Lessons from the case of UK Digital Health Companies. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2023.3336732
Mijnheer, C. L., & Gamble, J. R. (2023). Innovating with stakeholders to co-create value in cultural tourism experiences: a case study of Schokland in the Netherlands. JOURNAL OF MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 39(5-6), 389-413. DOI: 10.1080/0267257X.2022.2139284
2022
Djebali, Z, Di Domenico, ML and Saunders, MNK (2022). Starting up, not slowing down: Social entrepreneurial intentions in later working life. International Small Business Journal, Volume 41, Issue 3. DOI:10.1177/02662426221093570
Gamble, J. R. (2022). Exploring the relationship between arts festivals and economic development in rural island regions: a case study of Scotland's Orkney Isles: Event Management, 26(2), 349-367. DOI: 10.3727/152599521X16288665119486
Razzak, B. M., Blackburn, R., & Saridakis, G. (2022). Employees' working life and performance of UK ethnic minority restaurants: a qualitative approach. BENCHMARKING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 29(1), 47-67. DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-08-2020-0436
2021
Blackburn, R., Saridakis, G., Georgellis, Y., Muñoz Torres, R., & Mohammed, A. -M. (2021). From subsistence farming to agribusiness and nonfarm entrepreneurship: Does it improve economic conditions and well-being in Uganda?. Journal of Business Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.07.037
Clinton, E., McAdam, M., Gamble, J. R., & Brophy, M. (2021). Entrepreneurial learning: the transmitting and embedding of entrepreneurial behaviours within the transgenerational entrepreneurial family. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 33(5-6), 383-404. DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2020.1727088
Gamble, J. R., Clinton, E., & Diaz-Moriana, V. (2021). Broadening the business model construct: Exploring how family-owned SMEs co-create value with external stakeholders. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 130, 646-657. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.03.034
Imarhiagbe, B. O., Smallbone, D., Saridakis, G., Blackburn, R., & Mohammed, A. -M. (2021). Access to finance for SMEs in post-socialist countries: the Baltic States and the South Caucasus compared. JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, 28(5), 744-774. DOI: 10.1108/JSBED-01-2021-0036
Jayawarna, D., Marlow, S., & Swail, J. (n.d.). A genered life course explanation of the exit decision in the context of household dynamics. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. DOI: 10.1177/1042258720940123
2020
Gamble, E., & Muñoz, P. (2020). When tax-exempt nonprofits detract value from society. The Academy of Management Perspectives
Gamble, J. R. (2020). Tacit vs explicit knowledge as antecedents for organizational change. JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT, 33(6), 1123-1141. DOI: 10.1108/JOCM-04-2020-0121
Gilding, M., Brennecke, J., Bunton, V., Lusher, D., Molloy, P., & Codoreanu, A. (2020). Network failure: Biotechnology firms, clusters and collaborations far from the world superclusters. Research Policy, 49(2).
Hand, C., Iskandarova, M., & Blackburn, R. (2020). Founders’ social identity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy amongst nascent entrepreneurs: A configurational perspective. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 13, e00160. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00160
Jayawarna, D., Jones, O., & Macpherson, A. (2020). Resourcing Social Enterprises: The Role of Socially Oriented Bootstrapping. British Journal of Management, 31(01), 56-79. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12334
Kibler, E., & Muñoz, P. (2020). Social Entrepreneurship in context and as practice. Regional Studies.
Kibler, E., & Muñoz, P. (2020). What do we talk about when we talk about community. Academy of Management Discoveries.
Martinez Dy, A., & Jayawarna, D. (2020). Bios, mythoi and women entrepreneurs: A Wynterian analysis of the intersectional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed women and women-owned businesses. INTERNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS JOURNAL-RESEARCHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 38(5), 391-403. DOI: 10.1177/0266242620939935
Muñoz, P., & Kimmitt, J. (2020). Balloon Latam: Initiating Sustainable Development in Rural Communities. SAGE Business Cases.
Muñoz, P., Naudé, W., Nick, W., Trenton, W., & Frías, R. (2020). Reorienting entrepreneurship policy to tackle Chile’s economic and social crisis: A rapid response. Journal of Business Venturing Insights.
Parkinson, C., Nowak, V., Howorth, C., & Southern, A. (2020). Multipartite attitudes to enterprise: A comparative study of young people and place. INTERNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS JOURNAL-RESEARCHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
Thompson, M., Nowak, V., Southern, A., Davies, J., & Furmedge, P. (2020). Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE.
Ussivane, A. M., & Ellwood, P. (2020). Action learning in the service of food security and poverty alleviation in Mozambique. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 17(1), 100-107.
Wainwright, L., & Muñoz, P. (2020). Entrepreneuring and emancipation in at-risk social groups: Challenges and ways forward. Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Liverpool.
Wainwright, L., & Muñoz, P. (2020). Restorative entrepreneuring: A new cross- disciplinary agenda to support at-risk social groups. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 13, e00165.
2019
Afrahi, B., & Blackburn, R. (2019). Entrepreneurs exit strategies : the role of emotion. In British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2019 : Building and Sustaining High Performance Organisations in Uncertain Times : Challenges and Opportunities.
Blackburn, R., Smallbone, D., & Do, H. (2019). Policy Support for Born Global Enterprises: A Critical Review. In RENT XXXIII Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Berlin.
Brennecke, J. (n.d.). Dissonant Ties in Intraorganizational Networks: Why Individuals Seek Problem-Solving Assistance from Difficult Colleagues. Academy of Management Journal.
David, N., Brennecke, J., & Rank, O. (n.d.). Extrinsic motivation as a determinant of knowledge exchange in sales teams: A social network approach. Human Resource Management.
de Mol, E., Cardon, M. S., de Jong, B., Khapova, S. N., & Elfring, T. (2019). Entrepreneurial passion diversity in new venture teams: An empirical examination of short- and long-term performance implications. Journal of Business Venturing.
Elfring, T., & Hulsink, W. (2019). Dynamic Networking by Entrepreneurs: Collaborative Efforts in Developing Opportunities and Mobilizing Resources. In J. Reuer, S. Matusik, & J. Jones (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration. Oxford University Press, USA.
Ellwood, P., & Horner, S. (2019). In search of lost time: the temporal construction of innovation management. R&D Management.
Gamble, J. R., McAdam, R., & Brennan, M. (2019). How User-centric Innovation is Affecting Stakeholder Marketing Strategies: Exploratory Findings from the Music Industry. EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 16(4), 1175-1193. DOI: 10.1111/emre.12326
Gamble, J. R. (2019). Marketing madness or financial folly? Implementing equity crowdfunding in the record industry. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING, 53(3), 412-441. DOI: 10.1108/EJM-11-2017-0830
Horner, S., Jayawarna, D., Giordano, B., & Jones, O. (2019). Strategic choice in universities: Managerial agency and effective technology transfer. Research Policy, 48(05), 1297-1309. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2019.01.015
Higgins, D. (2019). A call to act through action!. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 16(3), 203-204.
Higgins, D., & Murphy, L. (2019). Measuring Social Capital: The Case of the Technium Network in Wales. In Innovation and Social Capital in Organizational Ecosystems. Business Science Reference.
Higgins, D., Galloway, L., Jones, P., & McGowan, P. (2019). Special focus: Towards entrepreneurship learning practices – Thoughts and insights. Industry and Higher Education, 33(1), 3-5.
Higgins, D., Jones, P., & McGowan, P. (2019). Putting ‘Thought’ into the Theory/Practice Debate. In D. Higgins, P. Jones, & P. McGowan (Eds.), Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking through Multi voices, reflections on emerging debates Volume 9B (Vol. 9B, pp. 1-7). London: Emerald.
Horner, S., Jayawarna, D., Giordano, B., & Jones, O. (2019). Strategic choice in universities: Managerial agency and effective technology transfer. Research Policy, 48(05), 1297-1309.
Hughes, C., & Southern, A. (2019). The world of work and the crisis of capitalism: Marx and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Journal of Classical Sociology, 19(1), 59-71.
Kasperova, E., Lewis, K., Kitching, J., & Blackburn, R. (2019). Conceptualising the emergence of entrepreneurial identity. In 42nd Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Annual Conference : SPACE ? exploring new frontiers and entrepreneurial places.
Kimmitt, J., & Muñoz, P. (2019). The Potential for Social Impact Bonds in Chile: Exploring New Avenues for the Social Enterprise Sector. Newcastle University.
Kimmitt, J., Muñoz, P., & Newbery, R. (2019). Poverty and the varieties of entrepreneurship in the pursuit of prosperity. Journal of Business Venturing.
Lee, R., Tuselmann, H., Jayawarna, D., & Rouse, J. (2019). Effects of structural, relational and cognitive social capital on resource acquisition: a study of entrepreneurs residing in multiply deprived areas. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 31(5-6), 534-554. DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2018.1545873
Macpherson, A., Kiersch, C., & Antonacopoulou, E. (2019). Can senior management sustain engagement and identification to support learning? Designing communities and defining goals. Journal of Strategy and Management, 13(1), 144-159.
McNulty, T., & Stewart, A. (2019). Making and Regulating Business Judgement: Judicial Practice, Logics and Orders. In T. Real, T. Zilber, A. Langley, & H. Tsoukas (Eds.), Institutions and Organizations: A Process View (pp. 174-193). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McNulty, T., Stewart, A., Keay, A., Loughrey, J., & Okanigbuan, F. (2019). Business Judgment and Director Accountability: A Study of Case-law Over Time. Journal of Corporate Law Studies.
Mijnheer, C. L., & Gamble, J. R. (2019). Value co-creation at heritage visitor attractions: A case study of Gladstone's Land. TOURISM MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 32. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2019.100567
Muñoz, P., & Kimmitt, J. (2019). A diagnostic framework for social impact bonds in emerging economies. Journal of Business Venturing Insights.
Muñoz, P., & Kimmitt, J. (2019). Rural entrepreneurship in place: an integrated framework. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 31(9-10), 842-873.
Muñoz, P., & Kimmitt, J. (2019). Social mission as competitive advantage: A configurational analysis of the strategic conditions of social entrepreneurship. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 101, 854-861.
Muñoz, P., Kimmitt, J., & Dimov, D. (2019). Packs, troops and herds: Prosocial cooperatives and innovation in the New Normal. Journal of Management Studies.
Muñoz, P., Kimmitt, J., Kibler, E., & Farny, S. (2019). Living on the slopes: entrepreneurial preparedness in a context under continuous threat. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 31(5-6), 413-434.
Telej, E., & Gamble, J. R. (2019). Yoga wellness tourism: a study of marketing strategies in India. JOURNAL OF CONSUMER MARKETING, 36(6), 794-805.DOI: 10.1108/JCM-07-2018-2788
Ussivane, A. M., & Ellwood, P. (2019). Using Action Research to Organize Technology Transfer in Complex Innovation Contexts. Technology Innovation Management Review, 9(4), 17-26.
van Gelderen, M., Kibler, E., Kautonen, T., Munoz, P., & Wincent, J. (2019). Mindfulness and Taking Action to Start a New Business. JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, 57, 489-506.
Vecchiato, R., Do, H., Blackburn, R., & Pierrakis, Y. (2019). Technology foresight for growth and productivity: the design and implementation of a new foresight approach for UK SMEs. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK.
Recent books
Blackburn, R., & Curran, J. (2022). In search of spatial differences: Evidence from a study of small service sector enterprises. In Routledge Library Editions: Small Business (Vol. 4, pp. 164-193).
Clinton, E., McAdam, M., Gamble, J. R., & Brophy, M. (2022). Entrepreneurial learning: the transmitting and embedding of entrepreneurial behaviours within the transgenerational entrepreneurial family. In Families in Business (pp. 70-91). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003342946-5
Laveren, E., Blackburn, R., Ben-Hafaïedh, C., Díaz-García, C., & González Moreno, Á. (Eds.) (2020). Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781839109690
Laveren, E., Blackburn, R., Hytti, U., & Landström, H. (Eds.) (2019). Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Research, Resources and Outcomes. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781789903980
Gamble, J. R., Brennan, M., & McAdam, R. (2019). A Contemporary and Systematic Literature Review of User-centric Innovation: A Consumer Perspective. In Managing Innovation (pp. 3-46). WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE). DOI: 10.1142/9781786346490_0001
Clinton, E., & Gamble, J. R. (2019). Entrepreneurial Behavior as Learning Processes in a Transgenerational Entrepreneurial Family. In Entrepreneurial Behaviour (pp. 237-260). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04402-2_10
Boari, C., Elfring, T., & Molina-Morales, X. F. (2016). Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics. Routledge.
Cohen, B., & Munoz, P. (2016). The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur: How the Growth of Cities and the Sharing Economy Are Driving a New Breed of Innovators ABC-CLIO.
Southern, A. (Ed) (2011) Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities, London, Routledge.