This chapter examines entrepreneurs who carry ideas, technologies, values, and
assumptions between previously unrelated spheres of economic or cultural activity and, in …

In our Introduction to this Special Issue on Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring,
we draw attention to the importance of recognizing how processes and practices of …

This article explores the historical construction of the entrepreneur as a figure of antinomian
or “deviant” risk. Though risk-bearing behavior has been the characteristic most often …

Entrepreneurship has the potential to be an inclusive space comprising many types of
conventional as well as unconventional entrepreneurs. In this essay we will argue that when …

Much of the mainstream academic literature in the entrepreneurship literature does not
explore those areas of enterprising activity which lie outside of the “conventional”–those …

The body of entrepreneurship research is eclectic, stratified, and divergent, and it would be
an ambitious task to present in this chapter an all-encompassing robust entrepreneurial …

Opportunity has become the central concept in entrepreneurship. Discovery-focused
accounts assume opportunity to be objective and to exist independently of the entrepreneur …

How can we know the dancer from the dance? In watching a dance we can locate the
dancer and his/her moves. Yet, can we separate the dance from the dancer? 2 Similarly …

Scholars and popular writers have written a great deal about entrepreneurs and the
formation of new companies, but they have not succeeded in predicting when and where …

This paper argues that the framework of entrepreneurs-as-scientists, portraying
entrepreneurs as tasked with making precise and reliable inferences, and expressed in …