Programa del congreso

The role of knowledge spillovers has long been linked to innovation performance and subsequent R&D growth, yet the antecedents, mechanisms, and drivers for enabling this function and achieving aggregated economic outcomes remain highly debatable. Disparate observations from various global evidence also suggest that more comparative studies are needed. This study analyzes the role varying resource structures (entrepreneurial ecosystems) and diverse actor behavioral compositions (entrepreneurial motivation and gender-based) have on endogenous growth in different institutional environments. Through a cross-country unbalanced panel data (2006-2016) with instrumental variables this study finds that entrepreneurs (regardless of motivation and gender variations) contribute positively to national performance. Yet, there are significant variations in the scale of the impact that depends on behavioral features. Furthermore, the results reveal that ecosystems reduce their scale of impact. These findings bring evidence to the theoretical and policy discussion about ecosystems for entrepreneurship and economic growth as factors manifesting knowledge spillover.

Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) has been widely recognized as a driver of sustainable proactivity across both environmental and social dimensions. However, prior studies have often overlooked the distinct influences of each EO dimension and, in particular, the role of competitive aggressiveness. Understanding these nuances is critical to revealing potential tensions among the various EO dimensions themselves. Our study demonstrates that EO dimensions can play distinct, sometimes contradictory roles in shaping companies’ social strategies and sustainable business models. Notably, we find that competitive aggressiveness acts as a barrier to sustainability—contrary to our initial assumptions. Moreover, social strategies centered on employee support negatively affect companies’ adoption of sustainable business models (SBMs), whereas strategies fostering community development positively contribute to such adoption. The latter also mediate the relationship between risk-taking and SBMs, underscoring that, alongside proactivity and innovativeness, they form a particular EO configuration conducive to the adoption of SBMs.

These findings offer academics and practitioners valuable insights into the mechanisms and potential tensions underlying the relationships between EO, social strategies, and SBMs. To test our hypotheses, we employed objective measures for social strategies and SBMs and applied PLS-SEM on a sample of 96 B Corp companies.

This paper explores the impact of sustainable entrepreneurship education in shaping the sustainable entrepreneurial intentions of university students through their cognitive antecedents (sustainable entrepreneurial attitudes and self-efficacy). Grounded in a sustainable expanded version of Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour, it also examines the influence of prior experience among the variables studied. The data, gathered through a survey of Latin American university students enrolled in sustainable entrepreneurship courses within management faculties, were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Our findings demonstrate that sustainable entrepreneurship education positively influences students' entrepreneurial intentions, through its indirect effect on their cognitive antecedents. Subjective norms and perceived support also have a positive influence on intentions. The study also highlights the role of sustainable education across different levels of prior experience. For students without prior experience, the effectiveness of this education is notably weaker in fostering self-efficacy. This implies that for those lacking prior experience, education alone is insufficient to foster a strong inclination towards sustainable entrepreneurship. On the other hand, subjective norms do not have a greater incidence in the group of students with prior experience, which shows that the opinion of people close to this differentiated group of sustainable tendency is little or no important.

The objective of this paper is to analyse the technological and cultural factors that determine the impact of information systems on competitive advantages in subsistence small businesses, specifically in developing countries. In particular, the technology that facilitates the constitution of information systems is analysed. Additionally, the paper studies how the culture conditions the impact on the generation of competitive advantages. This research aims to contribute to the understanding of technology adoption and organizational culture in the case of subsistence small businesses and developing countries. The results show that technology does not affect information systems; rather, information systems generate a competitive advantage on their own. Culture moderates the effect of technology on information systems, but not the impact of information systems on competitive advantages. Technology, which normally plays an important role in the competitive advantages of companies, is less important in the context of BSSs. This is an important break from the most common traditional ITC literature, usually focusing on larger SMEs. This study may provide information to businesses and policymakers in a business typology where resources are very limited, highlighting the need to make the most efficient use of them.