Accelerators have become a widespread means of supporting entrepreneurs and their startups. Yet, deductive empirical research explaining and predicting peer effects in startup accelerator cohorts is wanting. Following queues from the theoretical and qualitative literatures, we hypothesize and...

Instrumental stakeholder theory seeks to explain how managing stakeholders effectively can yield competitive advantage for incumbent firms. We extend instrumental stakeholder theory to explain and predict future competition operationalized as new entrepreneurial entries. Our study is among the...