Economic development and social entrepreneurship often conceive of poverty as a resource allocation problem in which a lack of capital prevents the poor from increasing their income through entrepreneurship. This allocative view, however, represents only one possible approach to conceptualizing...

Entrepreneurship as a means for alleviating poverty has garnered significant attention among businesses, policy makers, and scholars in recent years. Yet, little attention has been given to the approach by which the poor actually seek out and interact with customers to offer goods and services...

Firms often conduct external search for new opportunities, but not all search leads to growth. Integrating traditional explanations of search from behavioral theory with biological foraging models, we explain how absorptive capacity together with financial slack influence breadth or depth of...

Do entrepreneurs have optimism in subsistence economies, and if so, how does it influence entrepreneurial outcomes? We investigate this question by taking the situated view of optimism. We reason that variations in optimism are a function of the type of opportunity pursued and the diversity of...

Entrepreneurship research has paid little attention to variance in entrepreneurial opportunities, instead choosing to treat them as homogenous. Thus, the field has failed to acknowledge that there are significant variations in meansÀends conceptualizations giving rise to different types of...

We examine two distinct perspectives to analyze the role of financial slack in the decisions of technology venture managers to seek strategic alliances. According to the capabilities perspective, financial slack provides managers with the ability to maximize the benefits from acquiring missing...

This study examines the role of business innovation as an important, but understudied intervening relationship between microcredit loans and income level. Using archival and survey data of microcredit clients from the Dominican Republic, the study finds that loan size has a positive effect on...

Resourcefulness is a term often used to describe entrepreneurs, but its dimensions and measurement as a research construct in the entrepreneurship literature are still in development. Drawing from related work in entrepreneurship, sociology, and psychology, resourcefulness in the...