Entrepreneurship, Networks, and Geographies

By Patricia H. Thornton, Katherine H. Flynn. 2003

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Contextualizing Entrepreneurship—Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward (2011, background): “Therefore, Thornton and Flynn (2003) refine the spatial context by indicating the social boundaries of local neighborhoods and communities that can be bounded by cognitive and culture-based rules and shared meanings.”
Understanding place-based entrepreneurship in rural Central Europe: A comparative institutional analysis (2014, background): “Similarly, Thornton and Flynn (2003) emphasise how entrepreneurial processes are affected by the social boundaries Lang et al. 209 of local communities, reflecting place-sensitive norms and shared meanings.”
Matching opportunities with resources: A framework for analysing (migrant) entrepreneurship from a mixed embeddedness perspective (2010, background): “Businesses are evidently not started in a socio-economic vacuum but in concrete, time-and-place specific contexts (cf Ibrahim and Galt 2003 ; Thornton and Flynn 2003 ).”
A model of the entrepreneurial economy (2004, background): “Thorton and Flynne (2003) and Saxenian (1994) argue that entrepreneurial environments are characterized by thriving supportive networks that provide the institutional fabric linking individual entrepreneurs to organized sources of learning and resources.”
The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don't (2005, background): “operation, and social capital that all facilitate exploitation of new opportunities ([135], [146]).”
Challenges for spatially oriented entrepreneurship research (2011, background): “During the past two decades, entrepreneurship research started to focus more and more on spatial aspects of entrepreneurial activities and entrepreneurship policies (Thornton and Flynn 2003 ; Cuervo 2008 ).”
A critical review of entrepreneurial ecosystems research: towards a future research agenda (2017, background): “On the contrary, there is a rich literature starting in the late 1980s that explored the role of different networks for new start-up activity, and ethnic entrepreneurship more in particular (Hoang & Antoncic, 2003; O’Donnell, Gilmore, Cummins, & Carson, 2001; Thornton & Flynn, 2003).”