From hobby to business: Exploring environmental antecedents of entrepreneurial alertness using fsQCA

Kadile, Vita; Biraglia, Alessandro

doi:10.1080/00472778.2020.1719846

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“…The findings also imply that individuals who are sensitive toward opportunities, look for the opportunities in newspapers, magazines and from interactions with friends, social media and other forms of websites, will easily make a feasibility study and design a social business plan ready for social venture creation. These findings are consistent with the past literature such as Kadile and Biraglia (2020), Urban (2020) and Roundy et al (2018), who noted that entrepreneurial alertness enhances social venture creation. This study contribution to the current understanding of the importance of the concept of entrepreneurial alertness and its related mechanisms.…”

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confidence: 93%

Entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation: the mediating role of personal initiative

Nsereko

Balunywa

Kyazze

et al. 2021

JEC

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness, personal initiative and social entrepreneurial venture creation and to examine the mediating role of personal initiative in the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation among social ventures in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a quantitative approach where hypotheses were statistically tested using structural equation modeling based on survey data (n = 243) from community-based organization owner-managers in Uganda. Findings Results show that both entrepreneurial alertness and social personal initiative are positively and significantly associated with social entrepreneurial venture creation. Results further indicate that personal initiative partially mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation. Originality/value To the authors’ knowledge, this study provides a shred of initial empirical evidence on the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness, entrepreneurial personal initiative and social entrepreneurial venture creation using evidence from Uganda, a developing country. Mostly, this study provides initial evidence of the mediating role of personal initiative in the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation in an under-researched developing country – Uganda.

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confidence: 93%

Entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation: the mediating role of personal initiative

Nsereko

Balunywa

Kyazze

et al. 2021

JEC

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“…A particularly prominent approach in this field is Ragin's (1987) fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), which has become the standard tool for asymmetric analyses in regression-based models (Woodside, 2013). Recent years have seen a significant increase in fsQCA applications in various social science disciplines (Farmaki et al, 2021;Kadile and Biraglia, 2020;Mikalef and Pateli, 2017;Pappas et al, 2019;Phung et al, 2020;Xie and Wang, 2020), especially in the field of hospitality and tourism (Olya, 2020;Rasoolimanesh et al, 2020). In this field, researchers have applied fsQCA in different contexts, such as evaluating travelers' willingness to pay (Agag et al, 2020), tourism accommodation services (Pappas and Papatheodorou, 2017), festival management (Gannon et al, 2019;, tourist behavior in green hotels (Olya et al, 2019a), peer-to-peer accommodation (De Canio et al, 2020;Pappas, 2017), medical tourism (Olya and Nia, 2020) and tourist engagement (Rasoolimanesh et al, 2020).…”

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“…Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis 2.1 Principles of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis As a set-theoretic technique, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA; Ragin, 1987) was initially developed during the 1980smainly in political science and historical sociologyas a "macrocomparative approach" to complex social and political conditions, but also as a "small-N" approach involving a small number of cases (Berg-Schlosser et al, 2009, p. 3). However, applications of QCA are not limited to small sample size constellations, but they extend to large data sets in different disciplines (Berg-Schlosser et al, 2009;Kadile and Biraglia, 2020;Mikalef and Pateli, 2017;Pappas et al, 2019). QCA is used to identify the sufficient and necessary conditions to predict or achieve an outcome by combining certain independent variables (Ragin, 2006).…”

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The combined use of symmetric and asymmetric approaches: partial least squares-structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Rasoolimanesh

Ringle

Sarstedt

et al. 2021

IJCHM

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Purpose This study aims to propose guidelines for the joint use of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to combine symmetric and asymmetric perspectives in model evaluation, in the hospitality and tourism field. Design/methodology/approach This study discusses PLS-SEM as a symmetric approach and fsQCA as an asymmetric approach to analyze structural and configurational models. It presents guidelines to conduct an fsQCA based on latent construct scores drawn from PLS-SEM, to assess how configurations of exogenous constructs produce a specific outcome in an endogenous construct. Findings This research highlights the advantages of combining PLS-SEM and fsQCA to analyze the causal effects of antecedents (i.e., exogenous constructs) on outcomes (i.e., endogenous constructs). The construct scores extracted from the PLS-SEM analysis of a nomological network of constructs provide accurate input for performing fsQCA to identify the sufficient configurations required to predict the outcome(s). Complementing the assessment of the model’s explanatory and predictive power, the fsQCA generates more fine-grained insights into variable relationships, thereby offering the means to reach better managerial conclusions. Originality/value The application of PLS-SEM and fsQCA as separate prediction-oriented methods has increased notably in recent years. However, in the absence of clear guidelines, studies applied the methods inconsistently, giving researchers little direction on how to best apply PLS-SEM and fsQCA in tandem. To address this concern, this study provides guidelines for the joint use of PLS-SEM and fsQCA.

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“…Biraglia and Kadile (2017) interviewed members of the Home Brewers Association and found a positive relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial passion. Kadile and Biraglia (2020) find that positive feedback on the quality of their beers plays an important role in the decision to open a brewery. Further, most brewers in the industry help each other out, paving the way for easier transition from home brewer to brewery (see e.g.…”

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confidence: 96%

Consumers' perceptions of product quality and entrepreneurial survival: evidence from the craft brewery industry

Fernández

Gohmann

2021

JSBED

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Purpose Most studies of entrepreneurial failure do not have good measures of consumers' perceptions of product quality. As a result, perceived quality in entrepreneurial success is often omitted. The craft brewery industry is comprised of small entrepreneurial firms selling an experience good making it an ideal study setting. Using online beer reviews, the authors examine how perceptions of beer quality and the size of brewery production influence entrepreneurial success of microbreweries and brewpubs.Design/methodology/approach Using data from the Brewers Association and over 12 million reviews from beeradvocate.com between 2002 and 2016, the authors examine the relationship between perceived product quality to firm survival. Perceived quality is measured using online beer reviews. The authors expect larger microbreweries will survive longer as will breweries with higher perceived quality. The authors use a conditional log-log hazard model to estimate survival for microbreweries and brewpubs.Findings A one standard deviation increase in the beer ratings reduces the probability of exit by 26% for a microbrewery and 19% for brewpubs. The authors find that larger microbreweries have a lower hazard of exiting.Originality/value Entrepreneurs in the brewing industry start as home brewers before beginning commercial enterprises. Scaling up production is difficult. The initial size of their brewery is an important determinant of their success. Likewise, the perception of the quality of their beer as measured by consumer ratings gives a good market indication about future survival. This research is one of the few studies to examine the influence of perceived quality on firm survival in a growing industry.

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From hobby to business: Exploring environmental antecedents of entrepreneurial alertness using fsQCA

Cited by 23 publications

References 135 publications

Entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation: the mediating role of personal initiative

Entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation: the mediating role of personal initiative

The combined use of symmetric and asymmetric approaches: partial least squares-structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Consumers' perceptions of product quality and entrepreneurial survival: evidence from the craft brewery industry

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