Entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs), such as incubators and accelerators, are now
ubiquitous. Despite this proliferation, their impact on entrepreneurs, ventures, and …

For entrepreneurs, establishing and maintaining new venture legitimacy is a complex
endeavor. Various factors complicate this process, including issues of optimal …

Calls for greater contextualization have been powerful in motivating research and
knowledge creation about entrepreneurship. However, unless counter-balanced with …

Accelerators are entrepreneurial programs that attempt to help ventures learn, often utilizing
extensive consultation with mentors, program directors, customers, guest speakers, alumni …

Expressions about opportunities are used unproblematically in everyday contexts. Yet, the
question “What is an opportunity?” has posed a difficult riddle in the academic study of …

It is often assumed that opportunities can be known ex ante in spite of the fact that the future
is simultaneously acknowledged to be unknowable. This paper endeavors to resolve this …

We examine how entrepreneurs rework the temporal commitments implicated in their
venture ideas when they persevere or pivot upon confronting unexpected events. To gain a …

The academic community recognizes that qualitative methodologies fundamentally
contribute to the comprehension of intricate entrepreneurial contexts and processes (Welter …

Purpose Entrepreneurs' pivot decisions are poorly understood. The purpose of this paper is
to review the existing literature on pivot decisions to identify the different conceptualizations …

Entrepreneurs regularly confront resource constraints as they attempt to bring their ideas to
fruition. To overcome resource constraints, they often try to mobilize resources from external …