Historical Disease Prevalence, Cultural Values, and Global Innovation

Bennett, Daniel; Nikolaev, Boris

doi:10.1177/1042258720914506

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“…Thus, entrepreneurs are currently experiencing increasing demand for, but decreasing supply of, emotional support in the way that it is traditionally exchanged (i.e., in-person). In addition to challenges associated with the lack of face-to-face exchange of emotional support, crisis situations, including pandemics, often can create a cohesion and a more collective culture (Bennett and Nikolaev, 2020) where asking for help is appropriate and encouraged. But, this is ambiguous in the COVID-19 context, as asking for support may be less acceptable (i.e., socially distanced and self-sufficient) and it could be believed that personal problems should be solved independently because of worries about infection from COVID-19 (Kim et al, 2008) or not wanting to rely on others who are also struggling.…”

Section: Looking Outside: Reconnecting and Alleviating Through Emotiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Revising entrepreneurial action in response to exogenous shocks: Considering the COVID-19 pandemic

Giones

Brem

Pollack

et al. 2020

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

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With regards to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the domain of entrepreneurship, we offer research-based evidence and associated insights focused on three perspectives (i.e., business planning, frugality, and emotional support) regarding entrepreneurial action under an exogenous shock. Beyond the initial emergency response that countries around the world have taken, we argue that it is time to revise entrepreneurial action guidance in such a context. Our aim is to highlight ways that entrepreneurs can take action in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic. We position our insights to be relevant to both researchers and practitioners coping with an unprecedented situation that has catastrophic consequences both economically and socially. 1. Research context The COVID-19 outbreak began with the first reporting of an unknown virus in December 2019. Within months, the outbreak had become a global crisis affecting the world both economically and socially. By March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. The absence of short-term medical responses to the virus (either as vaccines or treatments) has necessitated the use of lockdowns and social distancing restrictions as government tools to reduce the transmission of the virus across the population. However, the lockdowns (including, in some cases, the introduction of border controls and/or travel bans) have triggered an economic activity disruption that does not resemble any such prior demand or supply crisis. Beyond the temporal freeze of activity, there are growing concerns about the long-term effects originating with the need for lockdown protocol extensions (increasing its total duration and impact), as well as on the need to sustain behavioral rules such as social distancing to reduce the risk of new contagions. While the crisis affects all types of economic activity, the public support programs tend to prioritize and protect established organizations. And, unfortunately, the priority for the public institutions seems to be to reduce the risk of bankruptcies and destruction of * Corresponding author.

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Section: Looking Outside: Reconnecting and Alleviating Through Emotiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Revising entrepreneurial action in response to exogenous shocks: Considering the COVID-19 pandemic

Giones

Brem

Pollack

et al. 2020

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

220

202

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“…The situation in which we faced very critical limitations which went beyond a typical global crisis. Moreover, a body of literature has paid attention to startup issues during the crisis at business (e.g., Latham 2009;McDonald and Eisenhardt 2020) and society (Bennett and Nikolaev 2020;Fairlie 2013) levels.…”

Section: Entrepreneurs and The Global Crisismentioning

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: challenges among Iranian startups

Salamzadeh

Dana

2020

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

117

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The coronavirus outbreak has become a global issue with significant effects on capital markets, and the global economy; its impacts are estimated to be even more than the previous global recessions. In this interim, due to the impacts of this pandemic, startups are more prone to fail or succeed faster than ever before; however, the challenges they face are not yet clearly scrutinized, as the pandemic was faster than scholars. This study therefore investigates the main challenges of Iranian startups by interviewing the co-founders of fifteen well-known startups. The findings are analyzed through twostep coding, and findings were discussed in a focus group session to which startup co-founders, policymakers, and scholars were invited. It was revealed that there are six principal types of challenges to be addressed, including financial, human resources management, support measures and mechanisms, marketing, crisis management, as well as some others. RÉSUMÉ

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“…Prior research on institutions and entrepreneurship has demonstrated that the institutional environment is an antecedent to knowledge filters (Bennett and Nikolaev, 2020a) and a determinant of entrepreneurs to penetrate these filters in a way of new knowledge creation (Audretsch, Hülsbeck, and Lehmann, 2012;Nikolaev, 2020a, 2020b;Zhu and Zhu, 2017). Institutional environment affects entrepreneurial judgment (Knight, 1921) and changes the structure of economic incentives that make entrepreneurs embrace uncertainty and affect entrepreneurs' growth aspirations in different ways (Williamson, 2000).…”

Section: Institutional Context and The Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Frank Knight, uncertainty and knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

Audretsch

Belitski

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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In his seminal 1921 book, Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, Frank Knight distinguished uncertainty and risk. This paper applies Knight's concept of uncertainty to knowledge generated in incumbent organizations to explain the inherent difficulty in assessing potential innovations along with the key role played by knowledge spillover entrepreneurship as a conduit for transforming new knowledge created by an incumbent organization but ultimately commercialized through the creation of a new firm and innovation. Knowledge is inherently uncertain and constitutes what is characterized as the knowledge filter impeding innovative activity in the context of incumbent firms and organizations. The organizational and institutional context and market uncertainty can either facilitate or impede the spillover of knowledge from the firm where it was created to the entrepreneurial startup where it is transformed into innovation. The empirical evidence based on a large, unbalanced panel of 9,126 UK firms constructed from six consecutive waves of a community innovation survey and annual business registry survey during 2002–2014. Implications for managers, scholars, and policymakers are provided.

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Historical Disease Prevalence, Cultural Values, and Global Innovation

Cited by 50 publications

References 112 publications

Revising entrepreneurial action in response to exogenous shocks: Considering the COVID-19 pandemic

Revising entrepreneurial action in response to exogenous shocks: Considering the COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: challenges among Iranian startups

Frank Knight, uncertainty and knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

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