Communities at the nexus of entrepreneurship and societal impact: A cross-disciplinary literature review

S Bacq, C Hertel, GT Lumpkin - Journal of Business Venturing, 2022 - Elsevier
Although there is wide recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship for generating
societal impact, entrepreneurial activities alone rarely achieve a positive impact without the …

Categorizing categorization research: Review, integration, and future directions

JP Vergne, T Wry - Journal of Management Studies, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This paper offers a systematic review of the literature on organizational categories and
categorization published in the last 14 years (1999–2012). After identifying a core of roughly …

Creating in the crucibles of nature's fury: Associational diversity and local social entrepreneurship after natural disasters in California, 1991–2010

S Dutta - Administrative science quarterly, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines foundings of human services organizations after natural disasters such
as floods, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, and tsunamis and explains why only some …

Signal incongruence and its consequences: A study of media disapproval and CEO overcompensation

JP Vergne, G Wernicke, S Brenner - Organization Science, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
We draw on the signaling and infomediary literature to examine how media evaluations of
CEO overcompensation (a negative cue associated with selfishness and greed) are affected …

Occupy Wall Street ten years on: How its disruptive institutional entrepreneurship spread and why it fizzled

TH Allison, M Grimes, AF McKenny, JC Short - Journal of Business …, 2021 - Elsevier
How does media impact institutional entrepreneurs and their ability to create change? We
draw from research on social movements and media frames to examine the paradox that …

Seeing parochially and acting locally: Social exposure, problem identification and social entrepreneurship

S Dutta - Journal of Business Venturing, 2019 - Elsevier
Why some communities have greater rates of social entrepreneurship in similar domains is a
question of importance to scholars and practitioners alike. Much of the literature in social …

Jump to platform faster? Gender, institutional change, and pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempt

L Xu, KP Parboteeah, H Fang - New England Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The authors enrich and extend the existing institutional anomie theory (IAT) in the
hope of sharpening the understanding of the joint effects of selected cultural values and …

Strength in diversity? Group heterogeneity in the mobilization of grassroots organizations

ET Walker, LM Stepick - Sociology Compass, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Grassroots groups often find that they need to manage issues of diversity along racial/ethnic,
class, gender, religious, and/or citizenship lines, among several other axes of difference …

Bridging and bonding: Disentangling two mechanisms underlying the diversity–performance relationship

BR Fulton - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although extensive research has examined whether diversity hinders or improves
organizational performance, the aggregate results remain inconclusive. Social bridging …

Community constraints on the efficacy of elite mobilization: The issuance of currency substitutes during the Panic of 1907

LQ Yue - American Journal of Sociology, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
Organizing collective action to secure support from local communities provides a source of
power for elites to protect their interests, but community structures constrain the ability of …