Entrepreneurship is widely thought to be associated with innovation, yet the prior evidence about this relationship has been mixed. For this reason, some researchers have argued that the locus of innovation lies with large, professionally managed firms rather than new entrants. This study uses...

Prior research consistently shows a positive association between founders’ human capital and startup performance. However, this relationship is potentially confounded by early-stage selection processes that affect which startups survive and receive resources to grow. We investigate how...

Startup accelerators offer a wide range of valuable benefits to early-stage startups, including seed funding, mentorship, networking connections, peer support, and credibility. While previous studies have examined the advantages of participating in these programs, there is still limited...

This study extends and applies the methodology proposed by Guzman and Stern (2015) to estimate and map the quality of entrepreneurship in India, using government census data for 1,542,555 registered micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), spanning all 29 states in India. To our knowledge,...

Why are some nations more entrepreneurial than others? This study examines the cultural antecedents of cross-national variation in the rates of organizational founding. It argues that some nations became more entrepreneurial than others through their adaptive response to ecological adversity....

Startup accelerators have emerged as important loci for organizational learning among early-stage startups. These organizations use a cohort structure of peers from which a focal startup can draw knowledge, assimilate it, and apply it toward commercial ends. We develop and test hypotheses about...

Startups founded by women consistently receive less funding and lower valuations compared to those founded by men, particularly from male investors. A common remediation technique to reduce this gender inequality has been to increase women’s representation in powerful resource-controlling...