"This outstanding work will be required reading for all entrepreneurship scholars."--Andrew H. Van de Ven, University of Minnesota
"A detailed and fresh look at the conceptual end of the business of making money in developed societies."--Enterprise and Society

Claudia Bird Schoonhoven is Professor of Organization and Strategy in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-author of The Innovation Marathon: Lessons from High Technology Firms. Elaine Romanelli is Associate Professor of Management at the Georgetown University School of Business.