Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry

By Jesper B. Sørensen. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Why Family Matters: The Impact of Family Resources on Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Exit from Entrepreneurship (2016, unknown): “In this definition, entrepreneurship stands in contrast to being unemployed; therefore, entering into entrepreneurship can be viewed as a labor market transition: leaving unemployment for entrepreneurship (Shane, 2003; Sørensen, 2007).”
Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship (2010, unknown): “Second, we provide further evidence of the importance of the workplace in the entrepreneurial process (Freeman 1986, Burton et al. 2002, Wagner 2004, Dobrev and Barnett 2005, Gompers et al. 2005, Sørensen 2007a, Elfenbein et al. 2010, Parker 2009).”
The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spillovers: Performance Differences between University Spinoffs and Corporate Spinoffs (2011, background): “formation (Elfenbein et al., 2010; Sorensen, 2007) by noting that such patterns are systematically different depending on the institutional environment of the parent organizations.”
Opportunity Structures in Established Firms (2012, background): “entry among employees of large and mature organizations is almost three times lower than among employees of small firms (Sørensen, 2007).”
The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees (2012, unknown): “…(indirect) evidence in line with the argument of limited personal control for employees in larger and older organizations (Dobrev and Barnett 2005; Sørensen 2007), more bureaucratic organizations (Sørensen 2007, who argues that organization size and age are indicators of bureaucracy) or public…”
An organizational entrepreneurship model of supply management integration and performance outcomes (2009, background): “Further, this research suggests that people who work for larger, older firms are less likely to display entrepreneurial behaviour (Sorensen, 2007).”
Should I quit my day job?: : A hybrid path to entrepreneurship (2014, background): “For example, consistent with prior research (e.g., Elfenbein et al., 2010; Sørensen, 2007), in the current study, we find employer size to decrease the likelihood of entry into full-time self-employment (i.”
Exploring the intention–behavior link in student entrepreneurship: Moderating effects of individual and environmental characteristics (2016, background): “…in other words, the aspiring student entrepreneurs may benefit from parents' network when trying to establish a new business (Laspita et al., 2012; Sørensen, 2007), which gives them a head start in terms of moving from intentions to actions as compared to their counterparts who also exhibit…”
Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy (2014, unknown): “Third, we contribute to the work on the effects of an entrepreneur’s pre-launch history on venture design (Baron et al. 1999; Dahl and Sorenson 2012; Helfat and Lieberman 2002; Sørensen 2007; Sørensen and Fassioto 2011; Thornton 1999).”
Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, unknown): “Although prior research has shown growing up in a family-firm environment affects the propensity to engage in entrepreneurship (Gimeno et al., 1997), less is known about its relationship with performance (Sørensen, 2007).”
Political Empowerment, Rule of Law, and Women's Entry into Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “Explanations of Women’s Entrepreneurship Explanations of entrepreneurship generally use either an individual approach, which focuses on a person’s attitudes and ability to mobilize the necessary resources, or a contextual approach, which considers aspects of the social structure (Aldrich 1999; Søren”
Start-ups and Local Entrepreneurial Social Capital in the Municipalities of Sweden (2014, background): “However, during the last ten to 15 years a contextual approach, strongly connected to what some scholars call ‘institutional factors’ (RAPOSO et al., 2008; LAFUENTE et al., 2007), seems to have strengthened its position considerably (e.g., ALDRICH, 1999; SØRENSEN, 2007).”
Business as Plan B (2015, background): “…lead individuals toward entrepreneurship are embedded in institutional arrangements (North, 1990; Sorenson and Audia, 2000; Hwang and Powell, 2005; Sørensen, 2007; Sine and David, 2010) but have not considered how such arrangements structure demographic heterogeneity in organizational populations…”