The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context
研究了早期初创企业家在无员工或合伙人可领导时，如何通过关系型领导力发展社会资本并增强坚持力，基于18个月案例研究提出理论。
Although a considerable amount of literature shows how entrepreneurs develop and utilize social capital to create and grow their ventures, there is scant learning on how nascent entrepreneurs with few ties actually create and utilize social capital to help turn their early ideas into ventures. This paper reveals the role of relational leadership in social capital development and shows how it enhances persistence among very early-stage nascent entrepreneurs, even when they have no employees or partners to lead. Learning from our 18-month in-depth case studies of early-stage nascent entrepreneurs in one European country is used to propose a theory of social capital development in nascent entrepreneurship. Implications for future research and for nascent entrepreneurial practice are discussed.