Our short Dialogue challenges a stream of thought that focuses on drawing what we see as a frivolous contrast between creation and discovery view of entrepreneurship. In the former, entrepreneurs create opportunities ex nihilo; in the latter they discover them as “luggage lost at a train...

The “norm of normality” is a myth that organization design scholars should believe only at their peril. In contrast to the normal (bell-shaped) distribution with independent observations and linear relationships assumed by Gaussian statistics, research shows that nearly every input and...

Why is it that research findings about entrepreneurship continue to be so disparate? Recent reviews, for example, reveal extreme variances between inputs and outcomes, conflicting empirical findings, inconsistent measures of growth, and weak research designs (Achtenhagen et al., 2010; Leitch et al.,...

Reviews of the management, entrepreneurship, and marketing literature suggest that most performance-based outcomes are not distributed according to Gaussian assumptions within the normal, bell-shaped curve. Instead, Paretian (i.e., power-law) distributions are the new norm, where extreme...