MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA
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Women Entrepreneurs in Chile: Three Decades of Challenges and Lessons in Innovation and Business Sustainability

2015 , Maria-teresa Lepeley , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA , Pizarro, O.

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El rol de la inmigración y las expectativas de crecimiento en el emprendimiento innovador: el caso de Chile

2017 , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA , POBLETE CAZENAVE, CARLOS ABEL

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Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience

2023 , Sebastián Uriarte , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA , José Ernesto Amorós

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Social problem scale, public investment and social entrepreneurship action

2022 , Jonathan Kimmitt , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA , MUÑOZ ROMÁN, PABLO ANDRÉS

PurposeSocial entrepreneurs engage in action because social entrepreneurs want to solve social problems. Consequently, to see more social entrepreneurship in contexts with the most severe social problems is expected. This paper argues that this is an oversimplification of the problem-action nexus in social entrepreneurship and that action does not necessarily correspond to the observed scale of social problems. Drawing on the theoretical framing of crescive conditions, this relationship is affected by forms of public investment as institutions that distinctively promote engagement and public interest amongst social entrepreneurs. Thus, this paper assesses the relationship between varying levels of social problems and social entrepreneurship action (SEA) and how and to what extent public investment types – as more and less locally anchored crescive conditions – affect this relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses are tested with a series of random-effects regression models. The data stem from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's (GEM) 2015 social entrepreneurship survey and Chile's 2015 National Socioeconomic Characterisation Survey (CASEN). The authors combined both data sets and cross-matched individual-level data (action and investment) with commune-level data (social problem scale) resulting in unique contextualised observations for 1,124 social entrepreneurs.FindingsContrary to current understanding, this study finds that SEA is positively associated with low-social problem scale. This means that high levels of deprivation do not immediately lead to action. The study also finds that locally anchored forms of investment positively moderate this relationship, stimulating action in the most deprived contexts. On the contrary, centralised public investment leads to increased social entrepreneurial action in wealthier communities where it is arguably less needed.Originality/valueThe findings contribute to the literature on SEA in deprived contexts, social and public investment as well as policy-level discussion and broader issues of entrepreneurship and social problems.

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R&D transfer, policy and innovative ambitious entrepreneurship: evidence from Latin American countries

2019 , AMOROS ESPINOZA, JOSÉ ERNESTO , POBLETE CAZENAVE, CARLOS ABEL , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA

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Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes

2022 , MUÑOZ ROMÁN, PABLO ANDRÉS , Ewald Kibler , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA , AMOROS ESPINOZA, JOSÉ ERNESTO

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Transnational entrepreneurs: opportunity or necessity driven? Empirical evidence from two dynamic economies from Latin America and Europe

2019 , Johannes von Bloh , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA , APABLAZA SALINAS, MAURICIO IVÁN , AMOROS ESPINOZA, JOSÉ ERNESTO , Rolf Sternberg

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The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation

2024 , Albena Pergelova , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA

PurposeThis study takes an “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective to study entrepreneurs defined as “others” on multiple categories: women entrepreneurs whose ventures are necessity-based, bootstrapped and located in economically impoverished areas (neighborhoods) in two Latin-American countries: Chile and Peru.Design/methodology/approachThe study takes an interpretivist research approach and analyses inductively interviews with women entrepreneurs.FindingsThe findings reveal how everyday practices in pursuit of emancipation – while conducted within the existing patriarchal social structure – push the boundaries and contribute to changes in the social system via a variety of outcomes such as intergenerational social mobility, personal fulfilment and strengthening the communities in which the women entrepreneurs operate. Furthermore, while the authors find that in the particular Latin-American context under study, entrepreneuring activities become an emancipatory possibility for the everyday women entrepreneurs, they also highlight a “dark side” of their emancipatory projects.Originality/valueThe study contributes to recent critical studies in entrepreneurship by demonstrating the diversity and importance of the “mundane” activities undertaken by “necessity-based” entrepreneurs, and the significant – yet underappreciated – reach of their ventures’ impact on issues well beyond economic considerations.

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“As if it were home”: an exploratory study of the role of homesickness among migrant entrepreneurs

2023 , POBLETE CAZENAVE, CARLOS ABEL , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA , APABLAZA SALINAS, MAURICIO IVÁN

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Experts in entrepreneurship: opportunities and context evaluation from the perspective of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs

2020 , POBLETE CAZENAVE, CARLOS ABEL , MANDAKOVIC PIZARRO, VESNA VERÓNICA

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze how different experts in entrepreneurship perceive their surrounding environment and business opportunities. The authors suggest that people act the way they do not only because of different interpretations of the environment but also because of the relative importance they give to the context and themselves in their mental scripts.Design/methodology/approachA Mann–Whitney U non-parametric test and principal component analysis were conducted to examine the national expert survey from the global entrepreneurship monitor database of Chilean exports.FindingsWhen experts in entrepreneurship are compared, entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs differ in their use of certain cognitive resources about past or current events, but they map out future situations similarly, suggesting that their mental simulations may converge into similar patterns.Originality/valueThis study provides useful insights regarding the impact that mental representation has on experts’ perception, by discussing how experts who are entrepreneurs perceive the entrepreneurial ecosystem and current opportunities differently than experts who are not entrepreneurs. The specific context plays a key role in the way entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs analyze their surrounding environment but not necessarily opportunities.

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