Time in Entrepreneurship: New Perspectives and Approaches

Éditeurs invités

• Ludvig Levasseur, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
• Moren Lévesque, York University
• Paul Spee, University of Queensland
• Ute Stephan, King's College London
• Matthew Wood, University of Oklahoma

Synthèse

This special issue seeks manuscripts advancing our understanding of time in entrepreneurship. Research on the duration, pace, timing, and speed of action calibration in entrepreneurial processes such as opportunity realization are key examples of the role temporal dynamics play in entrepreneurship. Time is equally critical when examining decisions about the timing of growth while managing external events and shocks alongside slowly or rapidly evolving industry trends and customer preferences. Further lines of inquiry concern the pace, timing, and speed of exit decisions, or decisions to pursue venturing activities over time. Entrepreneurs' subjective perceptions of time, and their own and their stakeholders' orientations towards the short- vs. long-term, the past, present or future shape how they navigate entrepreneurship.

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Thèmes proposés

• How do objective dimensions such as duration, pace, timing, speed, and window of opportunity impact the entrepreneurship process?
• How do they shape links between entrepreneurs' subjective time perspective, their biological time (chronotype), and cognitive processes related to information scanning and learning?
• How do entrepreneurs' subjective time perspectives relate to their cognitions including information scanning and search, entrepreneurial learning, information associations and connections, and opportunity evaluation and judgment?
• How do time perspectives relate to informal investors' and venture capitalists' decision to provide funding?
• How do investors' time perspectives shape who they invest in, and the timing and size of their investments?
• With what pace and speed do failure consequences vary with institutional and cultural contexts?
• How does the timing of these consequences vary across groups of entrepreneurs including minoritized groups and differently abled entrepreneurs?
• When and how does time perspective lead to unhealthy persistence in entrepreneurship and undermine well-being?
• How do entrepreneurs' perception of time and the temporal development of the business impact venture emergence, business sustainability, and social entrepreneurship?
• Do we see variations in temporal profiles and differences across industries and cultures?
• How do the pacing of external events and entrepreneurs' own time perspective relate to how they manage equity, diversity, decolonization, and inclusion within their ventures?