Power and entrepreneurship

Abstract Entrepreneurship research has benefited from embracing three economic sociology lenses—networks, cognition, and institutions—but treated power mainly implicitly. This paper pioneers how the concept of can advance into entrepreneurship. We illustrate state actors, legacy firms, entrepreneurs variously exert coercive, persuasive, authoritative forms over entrepreneurial opportunities or exercise to pursue them as free actors. explicitly link context opportunity-development processes through a lens show power’s interaction-focused episodic nature that transcend geographical institutional boundaries might enrich entrepreneurship research.