Power and entrepreneurship
提出将权力概念引入创业研究,分析国家、老牌企业和创业者如何运用强制、说服和权威等权力形式影响创业机会,并揭示权力如何跨越地理和制度边界,为创业研究提供新视角。
Entrepreneurship research has benefited from embracing three economic sociology lenses-networks, cognition, and institutions-but has treated power mainly implicitly. This paper pioneers how the concept of power can advance research into entrepreneurship. We illustrate how state actors, legacy firms, and entrepreneurs variously exert coercive, persuasive, and authoritative forms of power over entrepreneurial opportunities or exercise power to pursue them as free actors. We explicitly link context and opportunity-development processes through a power lens and show how power's interaction-focused and episodic nature that can transcend geographical and institutional boundaries might enrich entrepreneurship research.