David Urbano
Biographic Data
| ID | 1696526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Urbano |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Urbano |
| SIGNATURE | URBANO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7600-8656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI Governance at Work
Organizational Policies and Environmental Innovation
Although cross‐sector collaborations drive innovation, organizational policies as legitimation signals attracting such collaborations remain unexplored. This study examines the mediating role of environmental partnerships between organizational policies and environmental innovation. Using panel data (2014–2024) comprising 3372 firm‐year observations from 454 consumer sector firms across 45 countries, we employ the causal mediation framework with …
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research
Rates of entrepreneurship differ significantly between countries. Previous studies have shown that the institutional context can explain these differences; in particular, the institutional dimensions approach has recently gained attention for its potential to explain entrepreneurial activity across countries. However, it is still unclear how this approach has evolved, what has been advanced and what remains to be done. Through a rigorous systemat…
Managing destructive entrepreneurship in place
Given institutional incentives, is entrepreneurship always good for the economy? While the literature about its benefits for society is extensive, a salient lacuna exists regarding the negative side of entrepreneurship. This study, hence, explores how institutions condition destructive entrepreneurial activity, which is linked to the economic growth of Colombian regions. Institutional economics helps us understand the underlying relationships, wh…
Culture over regulation
Understanding how sustainable entrepreneurs can effectively drive change is inherently tied to the institutional environment, as incentives, regulations, and social norms can either be supportive or hindering. Moreover, individual-level factors, such as beliefs, values, and perceptions, shape behaviours, especially in the sustainability domain. Using original empirical data and drawing on a mixed-methods approach that includes 205 survey response…
Individual entrepreneurial orientation from an economic lens
Individual entrepreneurial orientation follows a U-shaped relationship with economic development. • Income inequality produces a “sanding effect” that flattens this U-shaped pattern. • The flattening effect of inequality is significant for proactiveness and risk-taking but not for innovativeness. • Effects are strongest when inequality affects lower-middle income segments. While the economic development-entrepreneurship nexus has been widely stud…
Legitimating entrepreneurship through generative AI
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are transforming visual production across multiple domains, including entrepreneurship. However, their influence on constructing cultural imaginaries and legitimating symbols remains insufficiently examined. This study analyzes how text-to-image systems visually represent entrepreneurship and success, using a focused sample of 24 images generated with the Midjourney platform. Through critical visual d…
Social Entrepreneurship
We systematically review social entrepreneurship literature to analyse how the notion of well-being is perceived. We found that well-being in social entrepreneurship is accounted for in two forms: self-oriented and other-oriented. Our review indicates that both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being have received significant research attention, although the latter has gained more prominence. We found that negative well-being resulting from social entr…
Open social innovation
Open Social Innovation (OSI) has garnered significant attention in recent years as a collaborative approach to addressing societal challenges. However, the field remains fragmented, with divergent definitions, methods, and theoretical underpinnings across disciplines. Through bibliometric and multi-level content analysis, we analyze 115 studies to address these tensions and propose a systems-based framework that bridges conceptual and practical d…
Institutional enablers for sustainable entrepreneurship
Using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we examine the association of regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions with sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability impact in the entrepreneurially dynamic region of Catalonia in Spain. We identify four distinct configurations of institutional dimensions explaining our outcomes. A strong normative dimension, measured through sustainability culture, and the perceptio…
Do institutional dimensions matter at different stages of the entrepreneurial process? A multi-country study
Entrepreneurs should navigate through different stages from the conception of an idea until the business is operational. According to these stages, we expected that the context has a different impact on an individual’s decisions. This paper analyses the role of institutional dimensions (regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive) in the entrepreneurial process (potential, nascent, and new entrepreneurship), using data from the Global Entrepren…
Navigating faith and enterprise
Purpose This study explores how the social, cultural and religious landscapes of Makkah and Madinah (Islam’s heartlands located in Saudi Arabia) shape and influence women’s entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Employing an institutional approach and an Islamic feminism lens, the analysis reacts to the growing demand for research on women entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, particularly Makkah and Madinah, within the pervasive Islamic cultural…
Generative AI platforms as institutional catalysts of digital entrepreneurship
This study theorizes how recent generative AI (Gen AI) platforms operate as institutional catalysts of platform-dependent entrepreneurship (PDE). Integrating institutional theory, the external enablement framework, and innovation platform theory, we propose an integrative framework for explaining the emergence of PDE under reliance on non-substitutable, platform-governed capabilities. Using an abductive mixed-method case study of OpenAI’s ecosyst…
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship
Firms' innovation modes and novelty of innovation
Weak institutions leading to a dysfunctional competitive environment affect firms’ innovation. Drawing on the innovation modes approach and institutional theory, we suggest that STI (science and technology-based innovation) and DUI mode (learning by doing, using, and interacting) are moderated by perceived dysfunctional competition. Based on the Colombian innovation survey (EDIT) and using logistic regression modelling, we find that perceived dys…
Can female entrepreneurs boost social mobility in developing countries? An institutional analysis
Entrepreneurship has been linked to economic development at the regional and national levels, yet the microeconomic nuances of entrepreneurial diversity and the challenges that different entrepreneurs face in producing social benefits remain unexplored. Numerous studies have recognised that a gender gap exists not only in entrepreneurship but also in development outcomes, such as firm performance and poverty alleviation. Few, though, have conside…
Corporate entrepreneurship
This article analyzes the state of the art of the research on corporate entrepreneurship, develops a conceptual framework that connects its antecedents and consequences, and offers an agenda for future research. We review 310 papers published in entrepreneurship and management journals, providing an assessment of the current state of research and, subsequently, we suggest research avenues in three different areas: corporate entrepreneurship antec…
Attracting the entrepreneurial potential
The research on institutions’ role in entrepreneurship acknowledges that formal and informal institutions matter. However, previous research has stressed less the co-existence and interaction between individual- and country-level factors that shape entrepreneurial potential, population of skillful individuals with no entrepreneurial intentions, across countries. In this study, we investigate the multilevel influence of informal institutions on en…
The Influence of Green Entrepreneurship on Sustainable Development in Saudi Arabia
This study explores the influence of green entrepreneurial activity on sustainable development, using institutional economics as a theoretical framework. Also, the role of entrepreneurship policy is analysed in the context of Saudi Arabia. Using information from the General Authority for Statistics from 13 Saudi Arabian cities, the main findings show that green entrepreneurship positively contributes to the economic, social, and environmental com…
Do employees’ generational cohorts influence corporate venturing? A multilevel analysis
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 f…
The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - Key strategic challenges
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
Relevant Factors in the Process of Socialization, Involvement and Belonging of Descendants in Family Businesses
This research works toward the identification of the factors that comprise the process of socialization, involvement and initial belonging of descendants in family businesses and the key relationships between them. By means of a qualitative detailed study of four cases, complemented by a quantitative survey of 274 Colombian family businesses, the authors generate a new model that takes into account both factors explored in previous research as we…
Entrepreneurial universities
The role of innovative entrepreneurship within Colombian business cycle scenarios
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
Regulations and Entrepreneurship
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 differen…
The role of innovative entrepreneurship within Colombian business cycle scenarios
Firms' innovation modes and novelty of innovation
Weak institutions leading to a dysfunctional competitive environment affect firms’ innovation. Drawing on the innovation modes approach and institutional theory, we suggest that STI (science and technology-based innovation) and DUI mode (learning by doing, using, and interacting) are moderated by perceived dysfunctional competition. Based on the Colombian innovation survey (EDIT) and using logistic regression modelling, we find that perceived dys…
The responsiveness of entrepreneurs to working time regulations
Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity
Scholars who study entrepreneurship have lent great value by exploring the factors that explain how entrepreneurs create new businesses and thus, how societies and economies grow and prosper. Although there has considerable research based on psychological and economic approaches to entrepreneurship, the influence of socio-cultural factors on enterprise development remains under studied. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to integrate, from a the…
The development of an entrepreneurial university
Cultural-cognitive Dimension and Entrepreneurial Activity
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between independence, risk taking, creativity, and entrepreneurial activity at the country level, in the light of institutional economics, concretely using the cultural-cognitive dimension. The main findings demonstrate through a regression model that risk taking and creativity have a positive and significant influence on entrepreneurship. Data were obtained from the World Values Survey, fo…
Academics’ start-up intentions and knowledge filters
GEM research
Institutional dimensions and entrepreneurial activity
Regulations and Entrepreneurship
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 differen…
Economic impact of entrepreneurial universities’ activities
Entrepreneurial universities
The role of innovative entrepreneurship within Colombian business cycle scenarios
Relevant Factors in the Process of Socialization, Involvement and Belonging of Descendants in Family Businesses
This research works toward the identification of the factors that comprise the process of socialization, involvement and initial belonging of descendants in family businesses and the key relationships between them. By means of a qualitative detailed study of four cases, complemented by a quantitative survey of 274 Colombian family businesses, the authors generate a new model that takes into account both factors explored in previous research as we…
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - Key strategic challenges
Attracting the entrepreneurial potential
The research on institutions’ role in entrepreneurship acknowledges that formal and informal institutions matter. However, previous research has stressed less the co-existence and interaction between individual- and country-level factors that shape entrepreneurial potential, population of skillful individuals with no entrepreneurial intentions, across countries. In this study, we investigate the multilevel influence of informal institutions on en…
The Influence of Green Entrepreneurship on Sustainable Development in Saudi Arabia
This study explores the influence of green entrepreneurial activity on sustainable development, using institutional economics as a theoretical framework. Also, the role of entrepreneurship policy is analysed in the context of Saudi Arabia. Using information from the General Authority for Statistics from 13 Saudi Arabian cities, the main findings show that green entrepreneurship positively contributes to the economic, social, and environmental com…
Do employees’ generational cohorts influence corporate venturing? A multilevel analysis
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 f…
Can female entrepreneurs boost social mobility in developing countries? An institutional analysis
Entrepreneurship has been linked to economic development at the regional and national levels, yet the microeconomic nuances of entrepreneurial diversity and the challenges that different entrepreneurs face in producing social benefits remain unexplored. Numerous studies have recognised that a gender gap exists not only in entrepreneurship but also in development outcomes, such as firm performance and poverty alleviation. Few, though, have conside…
Corporate entrepreneurship
This article analyzes the state of the art of the research on corporate entrepreneurship, develops a conceptual framework that connects its antecedents and consequences, and offers an agenda for future research. We review 310 papers published in entrepreneurship and management journals, providing an assessment of the current state of research and, subsequently, we suggest research avenues in three different areas: corporate entrepreneurship antec…
Firms' innovation modes and novelty of innovation
Weak institutions leading to a dysfunctional competitive environment affect firms’ innovation. Drawing on the innovation modes approach and institutional theory, we suggest that STI (science and technology-based innovation) and DUI mode (learning by doing, using, and interacting) are moderated by perceived dysfunctional competition. Based on the Colombian innovation survey (EDIT) and using logistic regression modelling, we find that perceived dys…
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship
We systematically review social entrepreneurship literature to analyse how the notion of well-being is perceived. We found that well-being in social entrepreneurship is accounted for in two forms: self-oriented and other-oriented. Our review indicates that both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being have received significant research attention, although the latter has gained more prominence. We found that negative well-being resulting from social entr…
Open social innovation
Open Social Innovation (OSI) has garnered significant attention in recent years as a collaborative approach to addressing societal challenges. However, the field remains fragmented, with divergent definitions, methods, and theoretical underpinnings across disciplines. Through bibliometric and multi-level content analysis, we analyze 115 studies to address these tensions and propose a systems-based framework that bridges conceptual and practical d…
Institutional enablers for sustainable entrepreneurship
Using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we examine the association of regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions with sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability impact in the entrepreneurially dynamic region of Catalonia in Spain. We identify four distinct configurations of institutional dimensions explaining our outcomes. A strong normative dimension, measured through sustainability culture, and the perceptio…
Do institutional dimensions matter at different stages of the entrepreneurial process? A multi-country study
Entrepreneurs should navigate through different stages from the conception of an idea until the business is operational. According to these stages, we expected that the context has a different impact on an individual’s decisions. This paper analyses the role of institutional dimensions (regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive) in the entrepreneurial process (potential, nascent, and new entrepreneurship), using data from the Global Entrepren…
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (25 works) · Entrepreneurship (24 works) · Business (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Family Business Performance and Succession (8 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works)