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Impact of a Rights Issue Announcement on the Issuing Firm's Stock Price a Case of Nairobi Stock Exchange (1993-2001)
No full textA Project Report by Owalla Beldina Elensia, Submitted to the School of Business, USIU-A in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master in Business Administratio
EDI and innovation through an intersectional lens : understanding the role of innovation policies in promoting inclusive ecosystems
Get PDFInformal institutional structures and legitimacy perceptions of female innovation in sub-Saharan Africa : A conceptual framework
No full textExamining the effects of founders’ social identities on access to innovation funding
No full textSME innovation plays a central role in achieving regional economic development, with firms led by minority groups making significant contributions to the UK economy. However, access to funding still presents a major barrier for underrepresented founders, impeding their engagement in innovation and resulting in missed opportunities to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Our study advances knowledge on the accessibility of innovation funding by adopting an intersectional lens to examine the impact of founders’ social identities (i.e. gender, ethnicity and education) on their success in obtaining funding. It draws on innovation funding applications data submitted by founders of small and micro businesses between 2016 and 2023. We make the following contributions. Our findings indicate that despite being underrepresented, women founders who apply for innovation funding are as successful as men. Additionally, the heterogeneity of underrepresented founders and specific intersectional challenges influencing access to innovation funding is emphasized. This highlights the complexities of entrepreneurship and innovation processes and the shortfalls of analysing individual attributes in isolation. We also draw attention to some potential biases that might arise during the funding application processes due to perceived social status associated with founders’ educational background. Implications for policy and practice are also highlighted
Entrepreneurs in residence at the nexus of regional economy and university entrepreneurial ecosystems
Get PDFEntrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) is a novel perspective to analyse the interplay between support systems and businesses in regions. Simultaneously, universities have been playing increasingly important roles in entrepreneurship, fostering economic growth both through the wider regional economy (RE) and their own university EEs (UEEs). Entrepreneurs in residence (EiRs), chosen by universities as exemplar entrepreneurs, therefore provide potentially important conduits between the regional economy, UEEs and entrepreneurs, leading us to explore how and why do EiRs and universities interact in relation to entrepreneurial ecosystems to enhance the regional economy? Our qualitative study of a UK university case, conducted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which severely impacted many businesses’ access to resources, gives a particular temporal context to this research. It identifies accessing resources, building legitimacy and undertaking bridging activities as the three highest-level dimensions characterising EiR–university interactions, which have relevance for both the UEE and regional economy more widely, offering a framework for future EiR programmes. This study contributes to the regional entrepreneurship and EE literature, by examining the role of regional universities as anchor tenants and catalysts of entrepreneurial growth and resilience within regions, and calls for further research into the evolution of EiR–university interactions in different institutional contexts
Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the career life cycle of early career academics : lessons (un)learned
Get PDFBeyond the emerging consensus about the precarious nature of early career academics (ECAs) work and its effects on job security, career aspirations and development, little is known about their lived experiences. This research project led by a team of researchers at Oxford Brookes University in partnership with
the British Academy of Management (BAM), aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the career life cycle of early career academics (ECAs), with a particular focus on marginalized groups including women and ethnic minorities. Existing research highlights the persistent gender and racial inequalities in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the UK, and the disproportionate adverse impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on different groups of academics. While ample evidence exists on the potential impact of structural inequalities in HEIs on academic career trajectories, there are knowledge gaps regarding the extent to which external shocks, such as the pandemic, might impact the career life cycle of ECAs. This project, which adopts an intersectional perspective in its analyses, provides an evidence base of the lived experiences of a diverse group of ECAs during and since the pandemic, and the subsequent impact on their career development and ‘imagined futures’
Intersections of gender, ethnicity, place and innovation : mapping the diversity of women-led SMEs in the United Kingdom
Get PDFThis article advances knowledge on the diversity and heterogeneity of women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom by analysing how gender intersects with ethnicity and place to influence their engagement in innovation. We adopt an intersectional perspective, and base our analyses on the Longitudinal Small Business Survey (LSBS) data of 29,257 SMEs over the period 2015–2018. Our findings suggest that despite their limited number, as well as firm size and industry sector constraints, women-led SMEs are actively engaged in innovation activities. In addition, our results on the effects of intersecting categories of gender, ethnicity and place on innovation, further emphasise the heterogeneity of women-led SMEs, both with regard to their likelihood to engage in innovation, as well as the place where innovation is most likely to occur. Implications for policy and practice are highlighted
Gender and innovation strategy in crowdfunding
Get PDFIn this chapter first, we review the recent literature concerning female crowdfunding entrepreneurs (e.g., creators) and contrast those findings to those found in traditional entrepreneurial finance. Next, we examine the nature of innovations in crowdfunding and how these innovations are perceived by crowdfunding investors (e.g., backers). We then build our core proposition, which is then supported by our large sample of crowdfunding data. Last, we outline an agenda for future empirical research and conclude with a discussion on the practical application of this work, highlighting the opportunities that lie ahead for female founders pursuing innovative new ventures
Entrepreneurs in residence at the nexus of regional economy and university entrepreneurial ecosystems
No full textEntrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) is a novel perspective to analyse the interplay between support systems and businesses in regions. Simultaneously, universities have been playing increasingly important roles in entrepreneurship, fostering economic growth both through the wider regional economy (RE) and their own university EEs (UEEs). Entrepreneurs in residence (EiRs), chosen by universities as exemplar entrepreneurs, therefore provide potentially important conduits between the regional economy, UEEs and entrepreneurs, leading us to explore how and why do EiRs and universities interact in relation to entrepreneurial ecosystems to enhance the regional economy? Our qualitative study of a UK university case, conducted in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which severely impacted many businesses’ access to resources, gives a particular temporal context to this research. It identifies accessing resources, building legitimacy and undertaking bridging activities as the three highest-level dimensions characterising EiR–university interactions, which have relevance for both the UEE and regional economy more widely, offering a framework for future EiR programmes. This study contributes to the regional entrepreneurship and EE literature, by examining the role of regional universities as anchor tenants and catalysts of entrepreneurial growth and resilience within regions, and calls for further research into the evolution of EiR–university interactions in different institutional contexts
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