We extend the cultural entrepreneurship perspective by investigating how entrepreneurs in
deprived contexts gain legitimacy by leveraging proprietary and public places in their …

This chapter focuses on contexts of entrepreneurship, in particular geographical contexts,
and entrepreneurial agency. The twin concepts space and place are key in understanding …

This paper focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs engage with place and community.
Drawing on the ideas of embeddedness and transferring value across spheres, we develop …

In this chapter, we advance an understanding of entrepreneurial resourcefulness in relation
to context by focusing on challenging and sometimes outright hostile environments and the …

This study considers the differentiated ways in which entrepreneurs may embed themselves
within place to better understand the nature of embeddedness and the processes behind …

Various strands of work have explored how spatial proximity helps (metaphorically) bridge
barriers to resource mobilization and foster knowledge transfer. However, much of that work …

Responding to calls for research that stresses the importance of embeddedness in
entrepreneurship research, this paper examines the relationship between the spatial context …

Entrepreneurial startups may provide needed economic growth, but also may need
appropriate support. Regional innovation centers have been created to encourage the …

In this study we examine how resource-constrained organizations can maneuver for
competitive advantage in highly institutionalized fields. Unlike studies of institutional …

This study explores how entrepreneurs living and working at the 'bottom of the
pyramid'overcome acute resource constraints to create something from nothing. In a …