Portfolio Entrepreneurial Households Extending the Individual and Single Opportunity Focus

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Challenging Entrepreneurship Research on June 2016, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138922310.Available from 01/01/2018

Portfolio entrepreneurship : general and farm contexts

Portfolio entrepreneurs stand for a substantial proportion of new business start-ups. These are current owner-managers who involve themselves in the start-up of new business ventures while still retaining their current business(es). The purpose of this composite thesis is to contribute to the knowledge on portfolio entrepreneurs concerning the role of their experience and resources, developed from their previous and current businesses, in the process of identifying or creating new business opportunities and exploiting these by starting new business activities. The opportunity-based view of entrepreneurship and the resource-based view of the firm were chosen as theoretical platforms. This dissertation contains an introduction and six separate scientific articles. A triangulation approach has been chosen. The studies utilize four different datasets, of which two are longitudinal quantitative data, one is cross-sectional quantitative data and one is cross-sectional qualitative data. Two of the empirical studies are conducted in a multi-industry and four in a single industry context; the farm sector. The evidence presented indicates that resource transfer from current businesses to new business activities is a key aspect of portfolio entrepreneurship. Prior knowledge and resources are utilized in the opportunity identification as well as exploitation process, which have consequences for behaviours related to the identification and exploitation of new business opportunities and subsequent venture performance. The resource transfer from current businesses may represent assets as well as liabilities for the new business venture, and may enhance or impair new venture performance. Evidence from the studies within the farm context indicate that farmers' start-up of additional business activities are more likely to be pulled from entrepreneurial abilities and identified opportunities, than to be pushed from constraints related to farming. Their farm-specific resources and knowledge are often not applicable to new ventures, and therefore new resources have to be acquired. Too much reliance of existing resources are associated with less potential of the ideas identified and lower profitability in the business activities initiated. Policy makers should therefore encourage resource acquisition and learning related to other areas than farming to increase entrepreneurial abilities and opportunities of farmers

Tourism Entrepreneurship – Review and Future Directions

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism on 17/07/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15022250.2015.1065592

Gender equality in regional entrepreneurial ecosystems : the implementation of policy initiatives

This is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Growth of Women’s Entrepreneurship: A comparative Analysis, edited by T. S. Manolova, C. G. Brush, L. F. Edelman, A. Robb & F. Welter, published in 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364624.00017.The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only.submittedVersio

Intensity of innovation in public sector organizations: The role of push and pull factors

The public sector is under pressure to provide new public services with increasingly scarce resources. In response, practitioners and academics have called for more innovation in the public sector. Our understanding of sources of innovation within public sector organizations, however, is inadequate. Motivated by this gap, we develop a conceptual model of how push and pull sources enable innovation within public sector organizations. Key to our theory is that push and pull sources of innovation are enabled by innovation capabilities. Five hypotheses are tested using cross‐country survey data from European public sector organizations. Empirical analysis offers strong support for the central role played by innovation capability in enabling push and pull sources of innovation within public sector organizations. This article advances knowledge of the sources of innovation in the public sector and extends theorizing on push and pull mechanisms by examining their relevance to innovation in a public sector context.publishedVersionUnit Licence Agreemen

The role of incubator support in new firms accumulation of resources and capabilities

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis group) in Innovation: Organization and Management on 21/11/2019.Available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14479338.2019.1684204acceptedVersio

Entrepreneurs’ social identity and the preference of causal and effectual behaviours in start-up processes

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development on 21/04/2016, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08985626.2016.1155742.Available from 22/10/2017

Er coworking space et godt tilbud for gründere?

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Stemming the gender gap in STEM entrepreneurship–insights into women’s entrepreneurship in science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are notably important for innovation and technological development, which in turn are seen as drivers of social and economic growth. Hence, researchers and policy-makers have paid substantial attention to analyzing and promoting high-growth ventures in STEM fields. However, STEM fields are highly gender-skewed, regardless of whether the population considered is students, faculty members, graduates, top managers, or entrepreneurs. This is noticeable in the small number of women entrepreneurs with STEM backgrounds. This underrepresentation of women in innovation-driven business startups highlights existing gender biases and systemic disadvantages in social structures, making visible the double masculinity that exists at the intersection of STEM and entrepreneurship. This article addresses this issue by combining insights from research about women’s entrepreneurship and research about the gender aspects of STEM fields. We emphasize institutional, organizational, and individual factors influencing women’s entrepreneurship in STEM fields, laying the foundation for the articles included in this special issue. Finally, we discuss the way forward for research on the gender aspects of STEM entrepreneurship to help us create the knowledge needed to close this gender gap.publishedVersionUnit Licence Agreemen

Entrepreneurship and embeddedness : process, context and theoretical foundations

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development on 31/03/2022.Available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08985626.2022.2055152In this article, we introduce the special issue on entrepreneurship and embeddedness. We do so by providing a brief overview of existing research on the topic focused on three important conversations related to process, context and theoretical foundations. The overview highlights essential contributions from extant research and suggests that expansion and advancement in the research conversation can be accomplished by focusing on dynamic and multilayered conceptualizations of embeddedness and by broadening the theoretical foundations of our research. We also present and position the papers in the special issue within the conversations on process, context and theoretical foundations in entrepreneurship research on embeddedness.acceptedVersionpublishedVersio