Katharina Scheidgen

University of Göttingen | GAUG · Department of Business Administration

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) are expected to support high growth entrepreneurship. Yet, little is known about how they actually promote entrepreneurial activities. Based on Giddens’ structuration theory, this paper takes the entrepreneurs’ perspective to understand how they actually use the resources provided by an EE. Based on semi-structured...

As physical distancing is a core measure of containing the spread of COVID-19, this pandemic is a crisis that has uprooted social interaction. While current research mainly focuses on crises as a challenge for entrepreneurial ventures and potential regulatory response mechanisms, we complement this research by addressing the question of how crises...

Our study contributes a contextual perspective on entrepreneurs’ networking, shifting focus from individual-level network structure and networking activities toward understanding networking as a multilevel process involving individual and contextual mechanisms. Through a multiple case study of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Berlin, we introduc...

As more people work outside standard employment, the foundations of work solidarity are contested. How does work solidarity arise in atypical forms of work that are characterised by flexible, autonomous and self-dependent organisation, such as in solo self-employment? Drawing on a discursive approach to work solidarity, this article emphasises how...

The concept of an ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’ has become a major means for both theorizing and making policy decisions concerning entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic development. The notion of an entrepreneurial ecosystem captures the way in which entrepreneurship is increasingly performed and undertaken via the innate interdependencies exis...

In the most recent discussion of inequality in economic sociology, entrepreneurial actions represent a peculiar gap. These actions contribute not only to the creation of inequalities but can also address them. In this chapter, we argue that a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship and inequality can only be develop...

By following 17 entrepreneurial ventures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we show how entrepreneurial ventures can resourcefully mobilize resources throughout crisis—when resource constraints and opportunities for resource mobilization shift erratically. In a period marked by significant resource constraints, a temporary field emerged, centered ar...

Informal social networks and especially advice networks are a key subject of organizational sociological research. The formation of these networks has so far been explained on the basis of universal tie-formation mechanisms. However, recent conceptual contributions suggest that tie formation practices follow cultural rules that may vary across soci...

This course is designed to introduce students of business administration and related fields to qualitative research methods. The course is structured around 14 lecture videos recorded by experts in different areas of qualitative research. In addition to the videos, we provide PowerPoint slides for the lectures, review questions, and a syllabus. You...

This course offers students of business administration and related fields an advanced introduction to qualitative research methods. The course is structured around 14 lecture videos recorded by experts in different areas of qualitative research. Besides the lecture videos, we offer reading suggestions for students, review questions, and a syllabus....

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht Grenzlinien der Solidarität. Er betrachtet, wie in Krisensituationen Unterstützungsbedarfe für jene soziale Gruppen verhandelt werden, die in etablierten Solidaritätsdiskursen in eine Deutungslücke fallen. Untersuchungsgegenstand bildet die öffentliche Verhandlung von Solidarität mit Soloselbstständigen zu Beg...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht aus Perspektive der subjektorientierten Arbeitsforschung, wie Soloselbstständige die frühe Corona-Pandemie deuten und der Krise begegnen. Dafür wurden im Sommer und Herbst 2020 insgesamt 40 Interviews mit Soloselbstständigen aus drei Erwerbszweigen (Handwerk, Kultur, Coaching) geführt. Herausgearbeitet wird, w...

Although the entrepreneurial team has gained increasing attention as a unit of analysis, we still do not understand much about how these teams form. Previous research has focused either on existing social relationships and their role in the search for potential team members or on criteria for selecting team members. Consequently, we do not yet unde...

Innovationen hervorzubringen ist in verschiedensten gesellschaftlichen Bereichen zum Imperativ geworden (Rammert et al. 2016). Start-ups und Spin-offs spielen eine zentrale Rolle in diesem Prozess (bspw. Isenberg 2010), weshalb ihre Betrachtung bei der Analyse von Innovationsphänomen nicht fehlen darf. Spezifisch an diesen ist, dass sie eine Organi...

Although the entrepreneurial team has gained increasing attention as a unit of analysis, we still do not understand much about how these teams form. Previous research has focused either on existing social relationships and their role in the search for potential team members or on criteria for selecting team members. Consequently, we do not yet unde...