In an attempt to explain why some nascent organizations become new organizations while others do not, we contend that the process of organizational emergence can be understood and predicted by viewing it as a quest for legitimacy. We subsequently find empirical evidence to suggest that the...

Networks are important to entrepreneurial success. However, most research in this area to date has merely addressed the what; namely, what types of networks enable success. We seek to extend this stream of research by answering the how and the why. In so doing, we elaborate on how entrepreneurs...

In an attempt to explain why some new organizations are established faster than others we adopted a perspective according to which a timely organizational emergence can be understood and predicted by viewing it as conditioned by the initial decisions of nascent entrepreneurs regarding the...