Stratification, Economic Adversity, and Entrepreneurial Launch: The Effect of Resource Position on Entrepreneurial Strategy
基于社会分层理论和资源基础观，分析经济逆境对不同资源位置的创业者群体的影响，发现经济逆境与创业率无关，且优势与劣势群体因资源位置相反而采取不同策略。
This paper analyzes whether or not the simple theory of income choice, which indicates there is a positive relationship between economic adversity and entrepreneurship, is applicable to all groups and may have been overgeneralized in entrepreneurship research. Using social stratification theory and the resource–based view, I explore how accumulated resource position differences between advantaged and disadvantaged entrepreneurial actor groups could result in their employing different strategies when exposed to economic adversity. I find that economic adversity has no relationship with entrepreneurship (self–employment rates) in advantaged or disadvantaged groups, and these groups use resources divergently due to their converse resource positions.