From Achille Bertelli onward: more than 100 years of research and production of dietary supplements based on natural molecules typical of the Mediterranean diet

Politics or markets: The dual role of the motivation to achieve organizational legitimacy in the development of knowledge management capabilities and business model innovation

Despite business model innovation being the object of much interest, limited attention has paid on how and when knowledge management capabilities enhance business model innovation in the literature. Build upon institutional theory and knowledge-based view, we seek to investigate how knowledge management capabilities affect the business model innovation by exploring the dual role of different types of legitimation motivations in triggering knowledge management capabilities, and moderating the relationship between knowledge management capabilities, and business model innovation. The data collected from the 236 Chinese new ventures running their businesses across a variety of sectors. The results indicate the both political and market legitimation motivation positively affect knowledge management capabilities. The relationship between knowledge management capabilities and business model innovation are more strongly in high motivation to achieve market legitimacy. However, the positive effect of knowledge management capabilities stimulate business model innovation is more strongly in moderately motivation to achieve political legitimacy than in low or highly political legitimation motivation. The paper has significantly contributed to advancing the body of knowledge of institutional and business model innovation theory and providing deeper insights on the correlation between firm's motivation to achieve legitimacy and knowledge management capabilities for business model innovations.

The role of self-efficacy, entrepreneurial passion, and creativity in developing entrepreneurial intentions

Although studies aimed at understanding entrepreneurship have analyzed passion, creativity, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, few studies include these antecedents in the same model. In this sense, this study aims to assess the relationship between passion, self-efficacy, and creativity with entrepreneurial intention. The data was collected through a survey and the questionnaires were applied to university students who formed a sample of 190 respondents, and such data was analyzed using structural equation modeling based on partial least square technique. Regarding our results, the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurial intention has not been confirmed. The multigroup analysis revealed that the level of education influences men's entrepreneurial intention and creativity only influence entrepreneurial intention when mediated by entrepreneurial passion. This study contributes by highlighting the roles of analyzed passion, creativity, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in entrepreneurs from one of the largest emerging economies in the world. Moreover, it also contributes to academia as it confirms the explanatory power of the Theory of Planned Behavior as a tool to understand the cognitive foundations of entrepreneurship. It also offers a practical contribution by signaling to public policymakers which features should be incentivized to boost entrepreneurship in emerging economies.