Audretsch David B, Fiedler Antje
Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN USA.
Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Small Bus Econ (Dordr). 2023;60(4):1573-1592. doi: 10.1007/s11187-022-00660-3. Epub 2022 Aug 3.
Entrepreneurship research has benefited from embracing three economic sociology lenses-networks, cognition, and institutions-but has treated power mainly implicitly. This paper pioneers how the concept of power can advance research into entrepreneurship. We illustrate how state actors, legacy firms, and entrepreneurs variously exert coercive, persuasive, and authoritative forms of power over entrepreneurial opportunities or exercise power to pursue them as free actors. We explicitly link context and opportunity-development processes through a power lens and show how power's interaction-focused and episodic nature that can transcend geographical and institutional boundaries might enrich entrepreneurship research.
创业研究受益于采用三个经济社会学视角——网络、认知和制度——但对权力的探讨主要是隐含的。本文率先探讨了权力概念如何推动创业研究。我们阐述了国家行为体、传统企业和创业者如何以不同方式对创业机会施加强制性、说服性和权威性的权力形式，或者作为自由行为体行使权力来追求这些机会。我们通过权力视角明确地将背景与机会发展过程联系起来，并展示了权力以互动为重点且具有跨越地理和制度边界的偶发性，这如何丰富创业研究。
