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In his influential essay entitled “Social Structure and Organizations”, Stinchcombe (1965, p. 153) suggested that “organizational forms and types have a history, and that this history determines some aspects of the present structure of organizations of that type.” This essay laid the foundation of organizational imprinting theory, which predicts that the social structures at the time of venture founding have implications for the future of new firms including their strategies, capabilities and routines (Marquis & Tilcsik, 2013; Simsek et al., 2015). Social structures are defined as “groups, institutions, laws, population characteristics, and sets of social relationships that form the environment of the organization”(Stinchcombe, 1965, p. 142). In order to understand the imprinting process better, Johnson (2007) calls students of organizational imprinting theory to give more attention to the sequence of decisive activities in the venture …