Equity financing in entrepreneurship primarily includes venture capital, corporate venture
capital, angel investment, crowdfunding, and accelerators. We take stock of venture …

To acquire resources, new ventures need to be perceived as legitimate. For this to occur, a
venture must meet the expectations of various audiences with differing norms, standards …

This essay sharpens and refreshes the multi-case theory-building approach, sometimes
termed The “Eisenhardt Method.” The Method's singular aim is theory building, especially …

This article explores what factors drive digital platform firms to set or modify their boundaries.
Building on economics, strategic management, and information systems research, I suggest …

Research summary Platform ecosystems have spurred new products and services, sparked
innovation, and improved economic efficiency in various industries and technology sectors …

This study extends the discussion of digital servitization business models by adopting the
perspective of the theory of the firm. We use four theories of the firm (industrial organization …

We analyze the role and effect of ecosystem leadership understood as the exercise of effort
towards others with the purpose of establishing and maintaining an ecosystem around a …

Prior research has advanced several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent
markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five …

The mobilization of resources is a central and defining feature of entrepreneurship. As the
body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the …

In nascent industries―whose new technologies are often poorly understood by regulators―
contending with regulatory uncertainty can be crucial to organizational survival and growth …