We conceptualize entrepreneurs' success in acquiring resources as the outcome of a socially embedded process of pursuing legitimacy, which in turn encompasses their ability to meet field incumbents' expectations about conformity and innovation. Drawing from Bourdieu's theory of practice, we...

As part of an attempt to make entrepreneurship more congruent with everyday experiences, the founding of a new firm is compared to the birth of a child.Following a discussion of the role of metaphors in the study of entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial process is compared methodically to the...