The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited

Bibliographic Data

ID2295574
AuthorsTristan L Botelho (0000-0002-8093-633X, 1School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; email: [email protected]), Ranjay Gulati (0000-0002-0986-234X, 2Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA), Olav Sorenson (0000-0002-0599-6738, University of California System)
Year2024
Volume50
Issue1
Pages341-364
Publication date2024-08-12
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-soc-030222-014049
OpenAlexW4394822845
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited116

Over the last two decades, the sociology of entrepreneurship has exploded as an area of academic inquiry. Most of this research has been focused on understanding the environmental conditions that promote entrepreneurship and processes related to the initial formation of an organization. Despite this surge in activity, many important questions remain open. Only more recently have scholars begun to turn their attention to what happens to organizations, and the people connected to them, as they mature and move through the life cycle of entrepreneurship. These open questions, moreover, connect to many classic themes in the literature on careers, organizational sociology, stratification, and work and occupations. Using a framework that focuses on three phases of the entrepreneurial life cycle-pre-entry, entry, and post-entry-we summarize sociological research on entrepreneurship and highlight opportunities for future research

Engineering ethics · Entrepreneurship · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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