Entrepreneurial resourcefulness is a concept that resonates with practitioners and scholars
alike from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical backgrounds. Despite the prevalence …

Expressions about opportunities are used unproblematically in everyday contexts. Yet, the
question “What is an opportunity?” has posed a difficult riddle in the academic study of …

Over the past three decades, research on entrepreneurial pitching has grown significantly,
with an increasing number of scholars in management, entrepreneurship, and other social …

How can stakeholder theory contribute to opportunity theory? We suggest that stakeholder
theory affords appropriate theoretical lenses for grounding the opportunity-actualization …

We examine how external endorsements help new ventures with varying degrees of
innovativeness to attract funding. According to optimal distinctiveness theory, new ventures …

Entrepreneurship scholars argue that effective storytelling is critical to the fundraising
process, yet scholars rarely examine how the inclusion of core story elements in resource …

Many entrepreneurial opportunities are associated with events, including sports
competitions, races and tournaments, concerts and music festivals, and conferences and …

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

We examine the decision process of individuals evaluating whether to support an
entrepreneurial endeavor. Such decisions are made by individuals under conditions of …

Success as an entrepreneur requires boldness, creativity, and action in the face of uncertain
opportunities and idiosyncratic setbacks. Our recent research elevated and defined the …