Research summary In recent years, there has been increased interest in the role of context
in different entrepreneurial processes. This article builds on this line of research by …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine business growth and explore the “growth
mode” among 24 women entrepreneurs participating in a Nordic research, development and …

More often than not, new ventures lack established products, known technologies,
longstanding customer relations, experienced managerial teams, sufficient capital, and …

Despite the widely shared belief that networks are essential to organizational emergence,
the central propositions of network theory have received less than compelling support in an …

Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a social process and creating a firm requires both the
mobilization of social networks and the use of social capital. This book addresses the gap …

This study proposes an integrative framework to explain entrepreneurship as a social
phenomenon. This work aims at analyzing how different contexts shape different …

Volume six of FIELD's Best Practice series explores the ways in which “networking” can be
supported by microenterprise assistance programs. A buzzword conjuring images of young …

This paper explores the role of relationships in the emergence of a network's value creation
structure. The strategic navigation from creative exploration to global exploitation through …

Today, people network by joining clubs, going to lunch with friends, attending conferences,
joining industry associations, and going to alumni dinners and reunions; others network with …