While it is well known that state enterprises in transition economies were displaced by
private enterprises at a macro level, little is known about whether private entrepreneurs …

Although many start-ups struggle to grow partly due to institutional voids in transitioning
economies, empirical observations have contradicted this dominant view in the literature in …

Studies of career dynamics implicitly claim that government employees are not
entrepreneurial. Utilizing longitudinal data from the US Panel Study for Income Dynamics …

Using public administration theory, we examine whether professionalized or closed
bureaucracy are associated with individual participation in startups and whether these …

Actors often leave in pursuit of new ventures, even though entrepreneurial opportunities may
exist inside the firm. While a bulk of work has focused on understanding the determinants of …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain entrepreneurial growth
aspirations across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates …

Studies consistently find regions dense in concentrations of similar firms to be fecund
sources of new firms of the same kind. This pattern persists even in industries with negative …

Do large firms support or suppress regional entrepreneurship? Comparing Ottawa and
Waterloo, two entrepreneurial ecosystems dominated by large, flagship firms, Nortel and …

We show that entrepreneurs are co-located within cities. One plausible source of such
spatial clustering is local social interactions, where individuals' decisions to become …

Regions with spatial concentrations of businesses create conditions that spawn new firms,
but also undercut new venture survival. Localized competition puts pressure on new firms to …