Two theories of entrepreneurial action - Discovery Theory and Creation Theory - are discussed. While Discovery Theory and its assumptions have been addressed in the literature, neither the assumptions of Creation Theory nor how they are related to the assumptions of Discovery Theory have yet...

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Diffusion of Startups addresses, for the first time, the emerging notion of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Chapters from leading scholars in the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy explore new ideas and provoke debate in both academia and practice. Covering...

Strategic entrepreneurship is a newly recognized field that draws, not surprisingly, from the fields of strategic management and entrepreneurship. The field emerged officially with the 2001 special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on “strategic entrepreneurship”; the first dedicated...