The notion that opportunities exist objectively “out there” has been repeatedly assaulted by scholars who counter that opportunities are subjectively constructed or created. This paper intends to restore the balance by bringing the critical strands of inquiry themselves under critical...

This study explores heterogeneity in how firms have achieved high growth. Using the population of all firms in Sweden with more than 20 employees in existence in 1996 (n= 11,748), we analyzed their development for each year of the previous 10 years (1987 to 1996). From this population of all...

This article offers a lexicon of mash-ups to describe Bengt Johannisson's research contributions: <italic>Otherpreneur</italic>: A person who is not the primary ‘founder’ of an organization, yet plays an important role in the creation of the organization: a ‘significant other’; <italic>Interactment</italic>: Actions that...

In this introductory article, we explain the purpose of this special issue that is set up as a <italic>Festschrift</italic> in honour of the (editorial) work of Bengt Johannisson. Inspired by Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the special issue is structured along six essays that are both...