E. Erin Powell

TL;DR: This paper conducted a longitudinal field study of 13 resource-constrained founder-run textile and apparel firms to understand how and why firms vary in their strategic responses to the same adversity, finding that founders enact distinctly different definitions of the adversity and use their firms as vehicles to defend who they are or to become who they want to be.

TL;DR: This article conducted a longitudinal field study of nine nascent ventures attempting to revitalize local municipalities to understand how and why identity processes shape organizing in multi-founder nascent ventures, and developed grounded theory and a process model showing how the patterning of founders' social and role identities shapes early structuring processes, how this in turn influences the construction of a collective identity prototype and its attempted enforcement by an in-group, and the overall process influences whether or not founders remain engaged in their joint organizing efforts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed recent literature focused on psychological aspects of academic scientists' involvement in such activities, which has concentrated primarily on topics that we have categorized as human capital, social capital, heterogeneous objectives, and demographic characteristics.

TL;DR: The authors developed a theory of entrepreneurial resilience that incorporates concepts of resourcefulness, adaptive aspirations and entrepreneurial identity, ideology and values, and developed this work through the discovery of grounded theory based on cross-case analysis of eleven survivors and startups in the US fabric and apparel industry as it experienced the gale of creative destruction.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a longitudinal inductive field study of eight cross-sector partnerships formed as new ventures addressing a variety of fundamental social challenges in the context of deep inequality in post-Apartheid South Africa.