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...