The decisions employers make are of critical importance to sociological understandings of
labor market stratification. While contemporary research documents employment outcomes …

The entrepreneurship setting—an extreme organizational context—provides fertile ground
for organizationally relevant theory testing and development. In this article, we propose that …

Reward‐based crowdfunding campaigns are commonly offered in one of two models via
fundraising goals set by an entrepreneur:“Keep‐It‐All”(KIA), where the entrepreneur keeps …

Research summary Women continue to be disproportionately underrepresented in new
venture creation. We investigate whether and how founders can differently influence future …

We study whether early stage investors have gender biases using a proprietary data set
from AngelList that allows us to observe private interactions between investors and …

How does the legitimacy conferred on entrepreneurial endeavors affect the legitimacy of
subsequent ones? We extend the notion of a “legitimacy threshold” to develop and test a …

Social impact accelerators (SIAs) seek to select startups with the potential to generate
financial returns and social impact. Through the lenses of signaling theory and gender role …

This paper provides, from a business ethics perspective, a basic clustering of the morally (a)
favorable,(b) unfavorable, and (c) ambivalent dimensions of blockchain technology and its …

Environmentally and socially oriented ventures have great potential for contributing to
sustainable development. Many expect crowdfunding to be able to unleash this potential by …

Compared with their male counterparts, female entrepreneurs receive a disproportionately
small amount of funding. One frequently cited reason for this disparity is the lack of female …