Entrepreneurial Group Dynamics

In this sociological research group, we understand entrepreneurship as collective action and draw attention to entrepreneurial groups as key social units involved in this collective action. Such entrepreneurial groups are constituted by a small number of family members, friends or former colleagues that jointly engage in an entrepreneurial venture. These entrepreneurial groups have a shared history, a particular ideo-culture and image of the future. We analyze the dynamics of such entrepreneurial groups by studying their trajectories and transitions and their capacity to negotiate future. This research group is funded by a Freigeist Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation, it was located at the Technische Universität Berlin from 2016-2021, before it moved to the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies.

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