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Strategies and Tools for Entrepreneurial Resource Access: A Cross‐disciplinary Review and Typology
Author(s) -
Rawhouser Hans,
Villanueva Jaume,
Newbert Scott L.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of management reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.475
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-2370
pISSN - 1460-8545
DOI - 10.1111/ijmr.12105
Subject(s) - typology , extant taxon , categorization , entrepreneurship , cross disciplinary , narrative , resource (disambiguation) , variety (cybernetics) , phenomenon , sociology , sample (material) , discipline , interpersonal communication , negotiation , knowledge management , psychology , business , epistemology , social science , computer science , data science , computer network , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , finance , chromatography , evolutionary biology , artificial intelligence , anthropology , biology
Given that gaining access to external resources is a critical component of entrepreneurial activity, a great deal of research has been done in an attempt to predict and explain this phenomenon. Unfortunately, this literature is largely scattered across a wide variety of somewhat disconnected research streams, which makes interpreting the insights that have been hitherto gained challenging. In response, the authors identify a sample of 76 relevant articles from the leading management and entrepreneurship journals that examine entrepreneurial access to resources. Using a narrative synthesis approach, they then organize these articles based on the strategies (projective and/or interpersonal) and tools (words, actions, associations and/or intangibles) by which entrepreneurs gain access to resources. Based on this categorization, the authors discuss the major themes in the extant literature and offer suggestions for how to move research on entrepreneurial access forward in the future.