http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14591 2026-05-15T12:49:16Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14599 From Business Ecosystems to Firm Physiology: The Strategy– Technology– Management Evolutionary Synthesis Vlados, Charis; Chatzinikolaou, Dimos This research explores the integration of biological typologies into evolutionary economics, emphasising the ‘physiology’ of firms within business ecosystems. Using the Strategy–Technology–Management (Stra.Tech.Man) framework, firms are categorised as ‘living entities’ with distinct physiological traits in strategy, technology and management—as independent analytical organic spheres. Although the application of evolutionary thinking to socio-economic sciences is not unprecedented, this study offers a novel approach that emphasises evolutionary micro-foundations. The intention is to advance the discourse in evolutionary microeconomic theory concerning firms, veering away from the conventional neoclassical model and placing importance on the inherent dynamism of business operations. These findings provide contemporary organisational science with enriched analytical aspects, highlighting the adaptive nature of firms within the larger ecosystem. This physiological lens also offers a concrete and evolutionary micro-level theoretical mechanism that explains why identical ecosystem-level policies often generate heterogeneous firm-level outcomes. Vlados, C., & Chatzinikolaou, D. (2025). From Business Ecosystems to Firm Physiology: The Strategy– Technology– Management Evolutionary Synthesis. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 34(2), 268-303. https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557251349310 (Original work published 2025) 2025-06-17T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14598 Family Slack: A Catalyst for Resilience and Digital Transformation in Family Businesses Daskalopoulos, Efthymios Timos; Machek, Ondřej We review and reconceptualise family slack resources, encompassing the excess of family unique resources, either absorbed or not allocated, as a fundamental driver of family business resilience. Drawing on the resource-based view and the concept of ‘familiness’, we develop theoretical arguments for the existence of family financial, human, social and cultural slack and establish a framework for understanding family firms’ unique position in this context. We extend the framework of family slack resources, presenting the case of leveraging untapped resources in the digital transformation process in a family business context. We link the subdimensions of family slack resources with specific digital transformation enablers and develop propositions highlighting family businesses’ unique position in this resource-intensive process. Daskalopoulos, E. T., & Machek, O. (2025). Family Slack: A Catalyst for Resilience and Digital Transformation in Family Businesses. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 34(2), 304-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557251349963 (Original work published 2025) 2025-06-26T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14597 Banking Concentration and Women’s Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Zogo, Therese E.; Kayo, Emeride F.; Asongu, Simplice A. The purpose of the present study is to assess how bank concentration affects female entrepreneurship in 70 developing countries using data for the period 2000–2019. The empirical evidence is based on ordinary least squares fixed effects and the Generalized Method of Moments regression. Three main female entrepreneurship outcome variables are employed, namely women’s entrepreneurial activity rate, women business leaders and the number of jobs created by businesses run by women. Two main moderating variables are employed, namely education and access to credit. The analysis is tailored towards assessing the direct impact of bank concentration on female entrepreneurship outcomes as well as the indirect effect pertaining to how education and credit access, as moderating variables, influence the effect of bank concentration on female entrepreneurship. The results show that bank concentration broadly reduces female entrepreneurship. The negative effect is robust to the inclusion of additional control variables, an alternative estimation technique and a different measurement of bank concentration. Within interactive regressions’ purview, the unconditional effect of bank concentration reduces female entrepreneurship, while education and credit access further complement bank concentration to reduce female entrepreneurship. This evidence of negative synergies is explained, and policy recommendations are provided. Zogo, T. E., Kayo, E. F., & Asongu, S. A. (2025). Banking Concentration and Women’s Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 34(2), 330-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557251349251 (Original work published 2025) 2025-06-20T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14596 The Complex Role of Social Media in Entrepreneurial Intentions for Environmental Practices Ripollés, Maria; Blesa, Andreu This study explores the relationship between environmental behavioural desires (EBD), entrepreneurial intentions for environmental practices (EIEP) and social media engagement among emerging Instagram entrepreneurs. Drawing on the extended model of goal-directed behaviour, the research finds that EBD positively predicts EIEP, confirming the role of personal environmental desires in driving sustainable entrepreneurship. Surprisingly, increased social media engagement weakens the EBD–EIEP relationship, challenging assumptions that digital interactions uniformly amplify environmental entrepreneurship. However, social media experience positively moderates this effect, suggesting that as users become more adept at navigating these platforms, they may better leverage them for environmental entrepreneurship. The study contributes to the environmental entrepreneurship literature by demonstrating the complex interplay between environmental desires, digital engagement and entrepreneurial intentions. It highlights the need for nuanced approaches to understanding how social media shapes the translation of eco-friendly aspirations into concrete entrepreneurial actions in the digital age. 2025-06-14T00:00:00Z