Impossible is nothing: entrepreneurship in Cuba and small firms' business performance

Date

2024

Authors

Cerviño, Julio
Chetty, Sylvie

Director

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Group
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa

Project identifier

  • AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-105198GB-I00/ES/ recolecta
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Abstract

While entrepreneurs play a crucial role in shaping the business environment in transitional economies, there is a lack of studies that involve such contexts. Cuba represents an idiosyncratic collectivist economy that is gradually transforming into a socialist market economy, and there is a dearth of literature on entrepreneurship in Cuba. Understanding business performance drivers and challenges faced by small firms in this context may have important theoretical and practical implications. We explore the determinants of small firms’ business performance in Cuba. We combine a capabilities and institutional perspective on entrepreneurship to explain small firms’ business performance in this turbulent transitional market. Specifically, we suggest that managerial capabilities, supply-chain problems, and institutional factors explain small firms’ business performance. We contribute to both the small firm and entrepreneurship literature by contextualizing capabilities and institutional perspectives to identify the critical role played by managerial capabilities and supply-chain problems in economies where supply is constrained.

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Keywords

Business performance, Institutional theory, Managerial capabilities, Small firms, Supply-chain problems

Department

Gestión de Empresas / Enpresen Kudeaketa / Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE

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Cerviño, J., Chetty, S., Martín Martín, O. (2024) Impossible is nothing: entrepreneurship in Cuba and small firms' business performance. Journal of Small Business Management, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2024.2322991.

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© 2024 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licens

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