To be agile, responsive and innovative seems to have become prerequisites for long-term
growth and success for any organizations operating in an increasingly volatile, uncertain …

Research on how new ventures (NV s) achieve legitimacy is fragmented and rests on taken‐
for‐granted assumptions that require problematization. Following a systematic literature …

We examine how entrepreneurs manage new venture legitimacy judgments across diverse
audiences, so as to appear legitimate to the different audience groups that provide much …

Venture financing through social networks has become a global phenomenon. The
processes and drivers of crowdfunding require careful study to identify similarities and …

This introduction to the special issue considers past and current research on “Social Capital
and Entrepreneurship” to develop a schema and an associated research agenda. With the …

In this paper, we jointly analyze the effects of the human capital of founders and access to
venture capital (VC) financing on the growth of 439 Italian new technology-based firms …

Social capital refers to the resources derived from social relationships. Although the concept
of social capital has been applied at the individual, group, and organizational levels of …

In this essay, we outline the provocative argument that in the realm of human affairs there
exists an “entrepreneurial method” analogous to the scientific method spelled out by Francis …

We aim to ascertain to what extent the better performance of European venture capital (VC)‐
backed firms in high-tech industries is due to either 'screening'or 'value added'provided by …

Crowdfunding platforms constitute two-sided markets, bringing together entrepreneurs and
potential backers; this peer-based fundraising schema introduces new dynamics into the …