Front cover -- Institutions and Entrepreneurship -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the volume editors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Institutions and entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Institutional environments and entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurial action and...

This study examines how ventures can leverage relationships with heterogeneous government stakeholders to enhance survival in different institutional environments. We consider how the distinct resources provided from venture ties to military and political actors represent complementary strategic...

The prevailing view in the management literature is that income inequality fosters entrepreneurship by providing both incentives and resources for individuals to engage in risk-taking and innovative activities. However, we contend that this view overlooks the potential negative effects of high...

Although economic and entrepreneurship scholars have argued that high income inequality has a positive impact on entrepreneurship by increasing the incentives for high quality human capital to take entrepreneurial risk and by enabling talented entrepreneurs to accumulate and reinvest capital...