http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13899 Fri, 15 May 2026 12:48:58 GMT 2026-05-15T12:48:58Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13915 Scrutiny of the Key Constraints and Opportunities for Startups' Growth: A Case of Bhutan Sharma, Amrit; Sharma, Dhanapati The study aims to explore and analyze the key constraints and opportunities for business startups' growth in Bhutan. This qualitative study is based on an in-depth interview with 15 startup entrepreneurs at Startup Centre located at Changzamtok, Thimphu, Bhutan. It used semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis to identify key constraints and opportunities for startups' growth in Bhutan. The study segregates key constraints and opportunities that influence the startups’ growth. The constraints that impede the growth of startups were identified as finance, entrepreneurial spirit, production and marketing, human resource, and acquisition of raw materials. Besides, factors such as education-work area disparity, the global pandemic and lack of market research were also seen as potential constraints. Most importantly, the opportunities propelling the growth of startups in Bhutan include; government support and initiatives, technology integration, education and training, financial support, and buying culture. The responses for this study were collected from multiple sectors, however, to develop a deeper understanding, there is a future scope for sector-specific studies. Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13915 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13903 Open Innovation Strategies: Incubators in Action Yordanova, Zornitsa; Charis, Gratitude; Acheampong, Patrick Open innovation strategies are considered a powerful tool to support organizations in innovation activities. They are recognized as even more relevant and viable for organizations with limited resources, such as start-ups. Additionally, recent studies have identified a knowledge gap in the literature on how business incubators provide networking and facilitate open innovation collaboration both within the incubator between entrepreneurs and outside of it with external stakeholders. This study employs literature review through a bibliometric analysis and qualitative research by providing insights into the usefulness and applicability of 33 open innovation strategies by incubators. Insights came from incubation managers from more than 10 countries from Africa, Europe and Asia. The research findings enable an understanding of the applicability and use of open innovation strategies by incubators around the world and provide practitioners and academics with a narrowed research agenda for further in-depth exploration of the topic. Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13903 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13902 Impact of Incubation or Lack of it on MSMEs in Zimbabwe Tembedza, Sarah; Charis, Gratitude Of the 15% of Zimbabwean start-up businesses that survive beyond five years of operation in Zimbabwe, only two become big businesses. Incubation has been proven as a global best practice that helps to increase the success rate of start-ups. In Zimbabwe however, such interventions have been minimal and semi-structured with under-defined communication streams to the intended beneficiaries. This study sought to establish challenges faced by MSMEs especially in the absence of incubation. SMEs owners that have been running their companies for 1-7 years of operation were engaged through a questionnaire generated on Google forms. A random sample of 30+ respondents from all over the nation was taken from two business WhatsApp groups comprising active SME owners. Questions asked include company start date, whether or not it was incubated, challenges and opportunities faced. These challenges as defined by pioneers of SMEs hint on the reason for a high failure rate, while harvesting perspectives on the best suitable interventions by relevant stakeholders to cushion budding businesses from the pressure in the commercial sector. The responses from the study confirmed the percentage of MSMEs receiving incubation, the main challenges impeding their growth, areas where MSMEs feel there is need of incubation and the variation of needs for different commercial sectors. Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13902 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13901 Entrepreneurial Freedom to Work and Quality Listening of Founders: Role of Learning Goal Orientation in Start-up Firms Kaur, Ashneet Despite the precariousness of working in start-ups, start-ups are still increasingly becoming viable alternative job options (Block et al., 2018). For example, in research by Roach & Sauermann (2015) on the academically trained science and engineering PhD, they discovered that nearly one-third of the study respondents considered entrepreneurship an attractive career option and at least as attractive as more traditional forms of employment in traditional firms. Further, a vast body of literature has emphasised the important role of startups in developing employment in the economy (Colombelli, 2016). However, the scholarly work has limited research on employees' perception of considering start-ups as a preference for work (Sauermann & Roach, 2018). Batra (2017) highlighted in the study that one critical factor that encourages employees to associate with a start-up is the intention to learn. Such orientation that enables an individual to develop their competence and abilities by acquiring new skills and knowledge is called learning goal orientation (Dweck, 1986). Existing studies have confirmed that when employees are exposed to new roles and opportunities to learn new skillset, they begin to enjoy their work and start finding their work meaningful. However, there is no study that has identified the role of learning goal orientation and its implications in start-ups context. From the implication of learning goal orientation point of view, one of the constructs that is stimulating interest is work engagement as preliminary evidence has found a positive relationship between work engagement and numerous relevant employee outcomes, such as employee performance and well-being (Caesens et al., 2014; Salanova et al., 2011). However, very few studies have examined the construct of work engagement and its relationship with learning goal orientation (Malinowska et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2017), across different contexts. Furthermore, in start-ups, due to resource constraints, they have to consider creative reorganizing to survive and develop the business (Sengupta et al., 2021). Zhang et al. (2017) suggested that job autonomy is one such job characteristic, which provides independence and freedom to the employee to experiment and undertake innovative ways to perform the job. The autonomy enables workers to choose adequate strategies to deal with problems in the work context (Frese & Zapf, 1994). Considering start-up employees operate in resource limited environment, they have to unearth novel approaches to manage unique job demands, which can be aided through innovation facilitative job behaviour of autonomy in work. Hence, our study extends the understanding of the relationship of the job autonomy with work engagement via learning goal orientation in the start-up context, which is absent in the research. Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/13901 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z