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Building universities’ intrapreneurial capabilities in the digital era: The role and impacts of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
(2021) Guerrero, Maribel; Heaton, Sohvi; Urbano, David
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have received a lot of attention over the last few years. Although the technological/pedagogical aspects of MOOCs have been well articulated in the literature, empirical evidence substantiating MOOCs' role in university outcomes is scarce. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the relationships among (a) ordinary capabilities that are necessary to achieve the university's core strategies (i.e., teaching quality, research quality, and administrative quality); (b) intrapreneurial capabilities that are necessary to accomplish the university's entrepreneurial strategy (i.e., MOOC orientation by assuming risks, sensing opportunities, and transforming routines to become more innovative and proactive); and (c) the expected university outcomes from these strategies (i.e., prestige in teaching/research, attraction of local/international students, and diversification in the income structure). Based on an analysis of 145 universities around the world, the results show that MOOC-based intrapreneurial capabilities play a direct role in the achievement of university outcomes, as well as an indirect role, by mediating the positive effect of the university's ordinary capabilities on the university's outcomes. These findings contribute to the current understanding in entrepreneurship and strategic management debates about the antecedents/consequences of intrapreneurial capabilities. A provoking discussion and implications for theory, practice, and policymakers emerge from this study.
Do employees’ generational cohorts influence corporate venturing? A multilevel analysis
(2021) Guerrero, Maribel; Amorós, José Ernesto; Urbano, David
Organizations are facing an interesting phenomenon in the composition of their workforce: the concurrence of multiple age generations that demand suitable strategies regarding work design, job satisfaction, and incentives. Ongoing entrepreneurship and strategic management debates require a better understanding of the relationship between workplace generational cohorts’ configurations and organizational performance. We propose a conceptual model for understanding how a diversified workforce influences some determinants (i.e., employees’ human capital and attitudes, organizational climate, and environmental conditions) of entrepreneurial organizations’ outcomes (i.e.corporate venturing). Our framework offers insights into corporate venturing determinants for three generational cohorts: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. Using a sample of 20,256 employees across 28 countries, our findings lend support to the positive effect of individual and organizational determinants on corporate venturing, as well as how these effects are reinforced per generational cohort. Specifically, our results show that younger generations (millennials) have more propensity to be involved in corporate venturing activities. This study also contributes to thoughtprovoking implications for entrepreneurial organizational leaders who manage employees from different generations.
Does policy enhance collaborative-opportunistic behaviours? Looking into the intellectual capital dynamics of subsidized industry–university partnerships
(2021) Guerrero, Maribel; Herrera, Fernando; Urbano, David
Design/methodology/approach: By combining two sources of information about 683 Mexican subsidised industry-university partnerships from 2009 to 2016, this study adopted the structural equation modelling (SEM) to analyse the effect of collaborative vs. opportunistic behaviours in intellectual capital dynamics within subsidised projects. Purpose: Little is known about how subsidies enhance both collaborative and opportunistic behaviours within subsidised industry-university partnerships, and how partners’ behaviours influence the intellectual capital dynamics within subsidised industry-university. Based on these theoretical foundations, this study expects to understand IC’s contribution as a dynamic or systemic process (inputs→outputs→outcomes) within subsided university-industry partnerships. Especially to contribute to these ongoing academic debates, this paper analyses how collaborative and opportunistic behaviours within industry-university partnerships influence the intellectual capital dynamics (inputs, outputs, and outcomes) of the subsidised projects. Findings: Our results show three tendencies about the bright/dark side of subsidies within the Mexican industry-university partnerships. The first tendency shows how collaborative behaviours positively influence intellectual capital dynamics within subsidised industry-university partnerships. The second tendency shows how opportunistic behaviours influence intellectual capital impacts (performance) and return to society (job creation). The third tendency shows how initial inputs of subsidised projects generate some expected socio-economic returns that pursued the subsidies (mediation effect of intellectual capital outputs). Research limitations/implications: This research has three limitations that provide a future research agenda. The main limitations were associated with our sources of information. The first limitation, we did not match subsidised partnerships (focus group) and non-subsidised partnerships (control group). A qualitative analysis should help understand the effect of subsidies on intellectual capital and partnerships’ behaviours. The second limitation, our measures of collaborative/opportunistic behaviours as well as intellectual capital dynamics should be improved by balancing traditional and new metrics in future research. The third limitation is that in emerging economies, the quality of institutions could influence the submission/selection of subsidies and generate negative externalities. Future research should control by geographical dispersion and co-location of subsidies. Practical implications: For enterprise managers, this study offers insights into IC dynamics and behaviours within subsidised industry-university partnerships. The bright side of collaboration behaviours is related to IC’s positive impacts on performance and socio-economic returns. The dark side is the IC appropriation behind opportunistic behaviours. Enterprise managers should recognise the relevance of IC management to capture value and reduce costs associated with opportunistic behaviours. For the university community, this study offers potential trends adopted by industry-university partnerships to reinforce universities’ innovative transformation processes. Specifically, these trends are related to the legitimisation of the university’s role in society and contribution to regional development through industry-university partnerships’ outcomes. Therefore, university managers should recognise the IC benefits/challenges behind industry-university partnerships. Social implications: For policymakers, the study indirectly shows the role of subsidies for generating/reinforcing intellectual capital outcomes within subsidised industry-university partnerships. The bright side allows evaluating the cost-benefit of this government intervention and the returns to priority industries. The dark side allows for understanding the need for implementing mechanisms to control opportunistic behaviours within subsidised partnerships. Accordingly, policymakers should understand the IC opportunity-costs related to industry-university partnerships for achieving the subsidies’ aims. Originality/value: This study contributes to three ongoing academic debates in innovation and management fields. The first debate about how intellectual capital dynamic is stimulated and transferred through the collaborative behaviour within industry-university partnerships in emerging economies. The second debate is about the “dark side” of partnerships stimulated by public programmes in emerging economies. The third debate is about the effectiveness of subsidies on intellectual capital activities/outcomes.
Effectiveness of Technology Transfer Policies and Legislation in Fostering Entrepreneurial Innovations across Continents: An overview
(2019) Guerrero, Maribel; Urbano, David
The purpose of this article and the special issue is to improve our understanding of the theoretical, managerial, and policy implications of the effectiveness of technology transfer policies on entrepreneurial innovation. We accomplish this objective by examining the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and public policies in the 186 papers published from 1970 to 2019. Our analysis begins by clarifying the definition of entrepreneurial innovations and outlining the published research per context. We then present the seven papers that contribute to this special issue. We conclude by outlining an agenda for additional research on this topic.
Entrepreneurial university ecosystems and graduates’ career patterns: do entrepreneurship education programmes and university business incubators matter?
(2020) Guerrero, Maribel; Urbano, David; Gajón, Eduardo
Purpose –This paper provides insights about how graduates’ career patterns (i.e. academic entrepreneur, selfemployed or paid employed) are influenced by entrepreneurial university ecosystems (i.e. incubators and entrepreneurship education programs). Design/methodology/approach – By adopting Douglas and Shepherd’s utility-maximising function, the influence of one entrepreneurial university ecosystem on graduates’ career choices was tested using a sample of 11,512 graduates from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) in Mexico. Findings – Our results show the critical role of entrepreneurial universities ecosystems in facilitating employability options as academic entrepreneurship for ITESM’s graduates. The study shows some insights about how graduates’ risk aversion and work effort are positively influenced by the university business incubator and entrepreneurship education programs, respectively. Practical implications – Diverse implications for stakeholders have emerged from our results. These implications are associated with potential benefits of implementing programmes oriented to engage academic entrepreneurship within Latin American universities. Originality/value – Entrepreneurial universities provide a range of employability alternatives for their students, such as to be self-employed, academic entrepreneurs or paid employees. In this scenario, entrepreneurial universities have configured entrepreneurial ecosystems (educational programmes, business incubators and other infrastructures) to support potential entrepreneurs (students, academics, staff and alumni). Despite the relevance of the environmental conditions on individuals’ occupational choices, few studies have explored the role of the entrepreneurial university ecosystems on graduates’ employability. In this vein, our study contributes to some academic discussions: (1) the role of context on career choice models (Ilouga et al., 2014; Sieger and Monsen, 2015), (2) the role of incubators and entrepreneurship education on fostering academic entrepreneurship on the graduates' community (Nabi et al., 2017; Good et al., 2019; Guerrero and Urbano, 2019a) and (3) the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial university ecosystems on graduates' employability (Herrera et al., 2018; Wright et al., 2017).
Evolution of the entrepreneurship and innovation research in Ibero-America between 1986 and 2015
(2020) Cancino, Christian A.; Merigó, José M.; Urbano, David; Amorós, José Ernesto
Ibero-American researchers show an increasing number of studies on entrepreneurship and innovation research. This article analyzes the journals and universities that published research on the discipline developed by Ibero-American authors between 1986 and 2015. The work uses the Web of Science database and provides several bibliometric indicators. The results show that the most outstanding researchers of the region come mainly from Spain and Portugal. In particular, Spanish researchers are the most productive and influential authors in the region. A small group of researchers from Chile, Argentina, and Mexico are also very influential. Latin American researchers must deepen their international academic networks.
GEM research: achievements and challenges
(01/03/2014) Alvarez, Claudia; Urbano, David; Amorós, José Ernesto
This article analyzes the content and evolution of research based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project. We conducted a rigorous search of articles published in journals within the Thomson Reuters’ Social Sciences Citation Index® through an exploratory analysis focused on articles using GEM data. The main findings of this study reveal that the institutional approach is the most commonly used conceptual framework. Also, although there are still few academic publications using GEM data, the number of articles is increasing, as are opportunities for future research.
Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the efect of violent events
(2020) Guerrero, Maribel; Urbano, David
Latin-American countries are characterised by societal problems like violence, crime, corruption, the informality that influence any entrepreneurial activity developed by individuals/organisations. Social innovations literature confront “wicked problems” with strong interdependencies among different systems/actors. Yet, little is known about how firms use innovation to hedge against economic, political or societal uncertainties (i.e., violence, social movements, democratisation, pandemic). By translating social innovation and institutional theory approaches, this study analyses the influence of formal institutions (government programs and actions) and informal institutions (corruption, extortion and informal trade) on the development/implementation of enterprises’ technological initiatives for protecting/preventing of victimisation. By using data from 5525 establishments interviewed in the 2012/2014 National Victimisation Survey of the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), our findings shows that formal conditions (government programs) and informal conditions (corruption, extortion and informal trade) are associated with an increment in the number of enterprises’ social innovations. Our findings also contribute to the debate about institutional conditions, social innovations, and the role of ecosystems’ actors in developing economies. A provoking discussion and implications for researchers, managers and policymakers emerge from this study.
Looking inside the determinants and the effects of entrepreneurial innovation projects in an emerging economy
(2020) Guerrero, Maribel; Urbano, David
Ongoing research agendas regarding the intersection between entrepreneurship and innovation in academia still demand analysis about the antecedents/consequences of enterprise-university collaborations. On the one hand, little is known about how enterprise-university collaborations manage their resources/capabilities to develop entrepreneurial innovation projects, as well as how do enterprises-university collaborations capture economic benefits. On the other hand, regarding the context, there is also a gap concerning the effect of institutional voids on entrepreneurship/innovation strategies in emerging economies. This paper analyses the determinants and the consequences of entrepreneurial innovation projects within enterprise-university collaborations in an emerging economy. By using a sample of 514 Mexican enterprises, our proposed framework offers insights into the remarkable effect in the transformation of enterprises-universities’ capabilities and state funds into the generation of economic value from entrepreneurial innovation projects. This paper contributes to the thought-provoking discussion about a future research agenda and implications for triple-helix actors in emerging economies.
Regulations and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
(School of Business and Economics, Universidad del Desarrollo, 2014) Alvarez, Claudia; Amorós, José Ernesto; Urbano, David
This paper uses an institutional approach to examine the effect of regulations on entrepreneurial activity, comparing developed and developing countries. Through an unbalanced panel data set of 49 countries over the period 2001-2010 and using a combination of international databases we find a positive influence of government spending and entrepreneurship legislation on entrepreneurial activity. It was also found that regulations may have different impacts on entrepreneurship according to the country’s economic development. Thus, in developed economies unemployment legislation is positively related to entrepreneurship, while this relationship is negative in other cases. This paper offers new insights both from a conceptual perspective (advancing theory concerning the factors that influence entrepreneurial activity) and a practical viewpoint (for the design of government policies to foster entrepreneurship)
Strategic knowledge management within subsidised entrepreneurial university-industry partnerships
(2019) Guerrero, Maribel; Herrera, Fernando; Urbano, David
Purpose: This paper analyses how collaborative/opportunistic behaviours subsidised universityindustry partnerships are influencing the design/implementation of strategic knowledge management practices in emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed conceptual model was analysed with a retrospective multiple case study approach integrated by four subsidised entrepreneurial universities-industry partnerships of the Incentive Programme for Innovation from 2009 to 2014 in Mexico. Findings: Entrepreneurial universities and industrial organisations confirm insights about dual collaborative-opportunistic behaviour within subsidised partnerships. The main effects of behaviours represent an increment in the knowledge management costs during the monitoring stages. The ex-ante collaboration agreement anticipated and protected intellectual capabilities. Research limitations/implications: This research contributes to the ongoing discussion about public administrations’ opportunistic behaviours in emerging economies (Tripsas et al., 1995), the effectiveness of the innovation and entrepreneurial programmes (Guerrero and Urbano, 2019b), and the link between dual behaviours (collaborative and pportunistic) and knowledge management practices (de Wit-de Vries et al., 2018). Practical limitations/implications: New questions emerged about the effectiveness of subsidies as new modes of knowledge generation among entrepreneurial universities and industrial organisations, as well as the need for implementing strategic knowledge management practices in the public administration. Social limitations/implications: For policymakers, the study presents insights about the effectiveness of public resources. Policymakers should understand challenges and re-define/re-incentivize the productive value chain as well as implement mechanisms to control opportunistic behaviours on potential subsidized firms. Originality: The paper contributes to the academic debate about how entrepreneurial universities and industrial organisations are strategically managing their knowledge when participating in subsidised partnerships in emerging economies.
The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - key strategic challenges
(2019) Klofsten, Magnus; Fayolle, Alain; Guerrero, Maribel; Mian, Sarfraz; Urbano, David; Wright, Mike
The sparse or total lack of research on the various leadership and strategic issues facing universities seeking to become more entrepreneurial has led this special issue to focus on the management, development, and implementation of this vision. We have solicited original research on the strategic challenges that these universities currently encounter. Researchers in management and related disciplines have contributed to this field of inquiry, which is having growing implications for our universities and stakeholders in the social and economic spheres. We begin by tracing an overarching framework, to which we add brief descriptions of the contributing papers in this special issue. To conclude, we outline future research goals and discuss how, around the world, academic actors involved in university development  such as university managers and policy makers  could view the ideas presented here.

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