Research on interactions between business and politics indicates that business ties are a predictor of political behavior. This paper redirects attention from the question of how business ties have an impact on politics to the question of how political ties have an impact on business....

The twinned challenge for entrepreneurial groups is recognizing new ideas and implementing them. In one view, connectivity reaching outside the group channels new ideas while closure makes it possible to act on them. We argue that entrepreneurship is not about importing information but about...