Emergence of entrepreneurial populations: a feature dimensionality approach

Min Liu () and Arjen Witteloostuijn ()
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Min Liu: Durham University
Arjen Witteloostuijn: VU University Amsterdam

Small Business Economics, 2020, vol. 54, issue 4, No 4, 989 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper studies how increasing dimensionality in a market space feeds into the emergence of a sustainable entrepreneurial population—energy cooperatives in Germany. Our theoretical model conceptualizes the market as a multi-dimensional feature space and offers insights as to when and where new types of entrepreneurial activities emerge. We demonstrate that (1) the rise of a socio-cognitive dimension greenness created novel social demand and opened opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship and (2) sustainable entrepreneurial organizations are more likely to be founded in communities with higher local demand for greenness. Our paper contributes to research on entrepreneurial population emergence and sustainable entrepreneurship.

Keywords: New entrepreneurial population; Feature dimensionality; Organization ecology; Sustainable entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L26 L94 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-018-0126-1

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