Conference Agenda

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is a critical strategic orientation for promoting not only financial performance but also environmental sustainability within organizations. Although the literature on the green effects of EO is expanding, little is known about the mechanisms and boundary conditions that facilitate the link between EO, green outcomes, and firm performance. Drawing upon the natural resource-based view and knowledge-based view, this study examines the relationship between EO and firm performance through two types of green innovation, with tacit knowledge moderating the EO-green innovation relationship. Additionally, we explore the links between EO, tacit knowledge, green innovation, and firm performance using a moderated mediation model. Using survey and objective data from 244 Spanish textile industry firms, we employ partial least squares structural equation modeling to conduct our statistical analysis. The results demonstrate the positive impact of EO on green product and process innovation, corroborate the partial mediating effects of these two types of green innovations on the EO-environmental and financial performance links, and highlight the moderating role of tacit knowledge in the EO-green process innovation link. Regarding the moderating mediation effects, tacit knowledge strengthens the relationship between EO and firm performance through green process innovation. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

In the landscape of higher education, student entrepreneurship emerges as a vital driver of innovation, economic growth, and social change. This study explores the relationships between student entrepreneurs’ well-being, their social identity, ant the performance of their ventures. By analyzing data from 20,920 student entrepreneurs through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), our findings suggest that student entrepreneurs’ social identities are predominantly shaped by Darwinian and Missionary traits, and show a positive correlation between social identity and business performance. Additionally, subjective well-being enhances this relationship as a positive moderating factor. These findings deepen the theoretical understanding of how individual well-being influences entrepreneurial success and offer actionable recommendations for higher education institutions’ entrepreneurship programs. By relating well-being, identity, and performance, this research equips future entrepreneurial leaders with valuable perspectives to refine their identities and leverage well-being as a catalyst for venture success.

El bienestar de los emprendedores ha cobrado creciente relevancia en la literatura académica, posicionándose como un elemento clave dentro de la sostenibilidad en el emprendimiento. Este estudio analiza la intersección entre emprendimiento y bienestar, explorando teorías, dimensiones y hallazgos clave en la literatura científica. Se examina cómo el emprendimiento, aunque genera autonomía y propósito, también conlleva estrés, incertidumbre financiera y alta carga laboral, afectando el bienestar de los emprendedores. Se identifican tres enfoques teóricos principales: bienestar hedónico (emociones positivas y reducción de estrés), eudaimónico (realización y propósito) y evaluativo (percepción de éxito y satisfacción). El análisis de 66 artículos revela que la resiliencia psicológica y la flexibilidad laboral influyen positivamente en el bienestar, mientras que el conflicto trabajo-familia y la inestabilidad económica tienen efectos adversos. Factores como el acceso a oportunidades, el contexto institucional y la personalidad del emprendedor también condicionan su bienestar. Se destacan diferencias en el bienestar según el tipo de emprendimiento y su entorno. Entre las futuras líneas de investigación, se plantea analizar el impacto del apoyo social, el trabajo híbrido y la influencia de la familia en el bienestar emprendedor. Comprender estos aspectos permitirá diseñar políticas que promuevan un entorno emprendedor más sostenible.

• Objectives: This paper addresses a gap in entrepreneurship studies about the formation and development of opportunities in purpose-driven ventures.

• Theoretical framework: Based on a theoretical background covering the formation of opportunities, the development of opportunities and the gendering of both processes in purpose-driven entrepreneurship.

• Methodology: The empirical research design focuses on the specific context of FemTech, an emerging field at the intersection of female health and technology. It embraces an exploratory mixed method. We first run an exploratory quantitative data analysis of the distinctive characteristics of the FemTech industry and then an in depth longitudinal case of a start-up in that emerging sector, following a reflexive thematic analysis.

• Results/implications: In the purpose-driven ventures of the FemTech industry, goal and means driven entrepreneuring intertwine. This context provides relevant elements to the understanding of opportunities formation and development in purpose-driven ventures. In addition, the female health biotech start-up analysed is led by a young female entrepreneur –founder and CEO–, which provides a novel vision of purpose-driven entrepreneurship also from a gender perspective.