The sociology of entrepreneurship /

Cover 1
The Sociology of Entrepreneurship 4
Copyright page 5
Contents 6
List of Contributors 8
Editorial Board 10
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Sociology of Entrepreneurship 12
Introduction 12
A Brief History of the Sociology of Entrepreneurship 14
Is Entrepreneurship a Marginal Subfield? 24
Contemporary Research on Entrepreneurship 29
Conclusion 33
Notes 35
References 35
Part I: Entry Into Entrepreneurial Activity 42
Chapter 2. A Life Course Perspective on Occupational Inheritance: Self-Employed Parents and Their Children 44
Introduction 45
Why Care about Parent to Child Occupational Transmission? 46
A Life Course Perspective on Work and Careers 47
Life Course Model of Parental Influences on Children\u2019s Self-Employment 55
Conclusions and Implications 82
Notes 86
Acknowledgments 89
References 89
Chapter 3. Closure and Exposure: Mechanisms in the Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employment 94
Mechanisms in the Transmission of Self-Employment 98
Hypotheses 103
Data and Methods 107
Results 113
Discussion 127
Conclusion 129
Notes 130
Acknowledgments 133
References 133
Chapter 4. Boundary Formation in Emergent Organizations 136
Introduction 137
Boundary Emergence and the Startup Process 139
Transaction Costs and Functionality 141
Resource Configuration and Functionality 142
Social Networks and Trust 143
Homophily and Trust 144
Data, Measures, and Method 145
Independent and Control Variables 148
Operationalizing Asset-Specificity 149
Method 154
Results 154
Discussion 158
Notes 160
Acknowledgments 161
References 161
Part II: Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Enclaves 166
Chapter 5. Revisiting the Enclave Hypothesis: Miami Twenty-Five Years Later 168
Introduction 169
Results 179
Conclusion 197
Notes 199
References 199
Chapter 6. The Force of Regulation in the Land of the Free: The Persistence of Chinatown, Washington DC as a Symbolic Ethnic Enclave 202
Introduction 203
Entrepreneurship Theory 209
Chinatown and the Regulation of Ethnic Theming 215
Conclusions 222
Notes 224
References 224
Part III: Academic Entrepreneurship 228
Chapter 7. From Vulnerable to Venerated: The Institutionalization of Academic Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences 230
Introduction 231
Entrepreneurship in the University Context 232
Technology Transfer at Stanford University 240
Findings 242
Summary and Implications 263
Notes 267
Acknowledgments 267
References 268
Chapter 8. Start-Ups in Science: Entrepreneurs, Diverse Backing, and Novelty Outside Business 272
Evidence from Arabidopsis 282
Descriptive Statistics 297
Results 303
Discussion 309
Notes 312
References 313
Part IV: Entrepreneurship and Organizational Forms 318
Chapter 9. Turning Identity Into Form: The Cause and Consequence for Kaiser Permanente of Becoming an HMO 320
Identity, Form, and Field 322
Kaiser Permanente as Institutional Entrepreneur 325
Discussion and Conclusion 339
Notes 343
Acknowledgments 343
References 344
Chapter 10. Entrepreneurship at the Margins of Society: Founding Dynamics in Gray (Sex Shops) and Black Markets (Mafia) 348
Legitimacy and Diffusion of Organizational Forms 350
Legitimacy as Categorization 352
Legitimacy and New Organizational Forms: The Role of Language and Discourse 353
The Definition of Organizational Forms as Social Categorization 354
Gray and Black Markets: A Borderline Case for Legitimacy 356
Discussion and Conclusion 373
Notes 376
Acknowledgments 377
References 377