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Entrepreneurship is not entered through a single route. Two pathways stand out: new venture creation (NVC), founding a business from scratch, and entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA), buying and leading an existing firm. Existing research explains the choice between the two largely through differences in accumulated resources, leaving a gap at the early-career stage, where evaluative reasoni
Early-stage ventures are structurally exposed. Without established legitimacy or track records, entrepreneurs depend heavily on Entrepreneurial Support Organisations (ESOs) for resources, networks, and the kind of validation that makes continued building feel possible. Yet how that support is actually experienced, and what happens when it falls short, remains poorly understood. This study examines
Nascent entrepreneurship represents one of the most psychologically demanding stages of the venture creation process. Operating without stable organizational structures, reliable performance feedback, or consistent revenue streams, nascent entrepreneurs are particularly vulnerable to psychological pressures that may determine whether they persist or withdraw. Among these pressures, fear of failure
Female researchers remain visibly under-represented among deep-tech founders in Germany. Although women are present in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and early academic research, the founder gap is larger than the pipeline alone would predict, signalling leakage at later, commercialisation-oriented stages of the academic career. This study examines how female re
This study examines how trust is established and evolves in early-stage creative entrepreneurial teams. Using a qualitative cross-case analysis grounded in Richard Florida’s Creative Class Theory, this research explores the emergence and development of trust across three distinct team configurations: Super-Creative, Creative-Professional, and Bohemian teams. Data was collected through a qualitat
Political polarisation is reshaping the institutional environment in which social ventures operate, yet research on social venture legitimacy still largely assumes stable, consensus-driven settings. This study explores how social ventures in Sweden reframe to maintain or reconstruct legitimacy when that consensus breaks down. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with founders and senior l
This study examines how second-generation entrepreneurs in Chinese family firms negotiate strategic autonomy through identity work. Existing research has discussed second-generation entrepreneurship, strategic autonomy, and identity construction in family firms, but it offers limited understanding of how second-generation entrepreneurs develop decision-making space while remaining embedded in fami
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) rely on innovation to remain competitive, yet their innovation processes often unfold under limited financial resources. While previous research shows that financial constraints reduce innovation activity, less is known about how such constraints shape the internal progression of innovation processes. This study examines how financial constraints influence
This study examines the relationship between four dimensions of psychological capital (PsyCap) and nascent entrepreneurial activity among Ukrainian refugees residing in European host countries. Specifically, it analyzes how internally and externally sourced fear of failure moderates this relationship, focusing on the psychological and emotional barriers that may limit refugees’ entrepreneurial
Background: Heavy‑duty road freight accounts for a significant share of global carbon emissions, yet the industry remains structurally inefficient, characterized by low margins and fragmented fleets. While electrification is essential for achieving climate targets, the transition introduces additional operational complexities, raising important concerns regarding profitability and scalability. Pu
Title Improving food preparedness in Swedish municipalities from a supply chain perspective - a multiple case study Authors Ellen Persson & Vera Hansen Contribution This thesis has been a complete collaboration between the two authors. Each author has been involved in every part of the process and contributed equally. Supervisor Andreas Norrman – Division of Engineering Logistics, Facult
Background Climate change has become one of the leading drivers of global food insecurity, and its effects are felt most strongly in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa. As environmental degradation and climate-related stresses increasingly affect agricultural production, large buyers of food com- modities become exposed to growing environmental sourcing risks. The United Nations World Food Program
Flooding of coastal infrastructure due to rising sea levels and storm surges can be mitigated by coastal protection. The design of such infrastructure depends not only on the storm surge still-water level but also strongly on storm-wave characteristics. Therefore, numerical wave modelling is essential in the absence of wave observations. Fetch-limited seas with low moderate wave-energy climates ar
As the first domestic species, dogs likely dispersed with different cultural groups during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed 73 ancient dog genomes, including 17 newly sequenced individuals sampled from East Asia to the West Eurasian Steppe spanning nearly 10,000 years. Our results indicate correlations between the ancestry of dogs and specific ancient human p
This chapter concludes the Privacy at Sea volume, providing a careful overview of the contributions of maritime history to the field of historical privacy studies as expressed in the previous chapters. By focusing on the dynamics of contraction and expansion, this analysis demonstrates how notions of privacy were adapted from the shore to the ships, showing how strategies of privacy enabled people
