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Social Networks and Entrepreneurship
Toby E. Stuart,Olav Sorenson +1 more
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This article is published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 478 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social network & Entrepreneurship.read more
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Contextualizing Entrepreneurship—Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward:
TL;DR: The authors explored the multiplicity of contexts and their impact on entrepreneurship, identifying challenges researchers face in contextualizing entrepreneurship theory and offers possible ways forward, arguing that context is important for understanding when, how, and why entrepreneurship happens and who becomes involved.
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The dynamics of crowdfunding: An exploratory study
TL;DR: This article found that personal networks and underlying project quality are associated with the success of crowdfunding efforts, and that geography is related to both the type of projects proposed and successful fundraising, while the vast majority of founders seem to fulfill their obligations to funders, but that over 75% deliver products later than expected, with the degree of delay predicted by the level and amount of funding a project receives.
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The relational organization of entrepreneurial ecosystems
TL;DR: In this paper, the persistence of high-growth entrepreneurship within regions is explained by a theoretical concept of "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems", which is a popular concept to explain the persistence and resilience of high growth within regions.
The role use and activation of strong and weak network ties
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative ethnographic approach to explore in-depth the networking activities of fourteen respondents, it aims to enhance understanding about the role of ties, how they are used and activated for business activity.
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Beyond the Single‐Person, Single‐Insight Attribution in Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the nature of opportunity as a creative product and suggest that they are emerging through the continuous shaping and development of (raw) ideas that are acted upon, rather than attributing them to a particular individual.
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