Existing category research tends to divorce categories from place. When considered at all,
place is often relegated to the contextual background. We see at least three important …

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 …

Although firms constantly seek opportunities to launch new products, services, or business
models, little is known about the way opportunities emerge and develop. In particular …

Entrepreneurship is often found to be highly persistent over time. Although the historical
roots of persisting effects of entrepreneurship are partially uncovered, their mechanisms …

Categories are organized vertically, with product categories nested under larger umbrella
categories. Meaning flows from umbrella categories to the categories beneath them, such …

What characterizes regions where right‐wing populist parties are relatively successful? A
prominent hypothesis proposed in the emerging “geography of discontent” literature claims …

The institutional context, which includes the normative, regulative, and cognitive dimensions
of social life within the various constitutive spheres of society, has a strong influence on …

We contribute to the institutions and entrepreneurship literature by examining the interactive
influence of formal and informal institutions on new business creation, survival, and growth …

Purpose This study aims to estimate the impact of refugee inflows on host countries'
entrepreneurial rates. The refugee crisis led to an increased scientific and public policy …

We conducted a qualitative study of the category of independent tourism entrepreneurs in
the politically contested territory of Northern Cyprus to understand how a collective of …