Entrepreneurs bring together the various stakeholders necessary to create new products and services; however, stakeholders face a high level of uncertainty when determining whether to invest their resources in the venture. This paper draws from signaling theory and stakeholder theory to explain...

Entrepreneurship remains a young scholarly discipline characterized by low paradigmatic development. Herein, we discuss theoretical and methodological issues associated with this rapidly emerging yet still developing research area. We argue that theory and methodology are symbiotic components of...