Entrepreneurship research has paid little attention to variance in entrepreneurial opportunities, instead choosing to treat them as homogenous. Thus, the field has failed to acknowledge that there are significant variations in meansÀends conceptualizations giving rise to different types of...

One unintended consequence of entrepreneurial action may be that the entrepreneur becomes intertwined with the business. This phenomenon is called entrapment and we draw on Becker's Side-Bet Theory to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial success, individual differences, and feelings...