Time as a contextual lens in studies of Team Entrepreneurship

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore and evaluate how time as a contextual perspective may contribute to a greater understanding of how, when and why entrepreneurial teams are connected to the entrepreneurial process and venture performance. A specific focus will be on how different kind of institutional transformations (both informal and formal) affects the entrepreneurial team and performance. This is done by making thoroughly evaluation and also reinterpretation of four earlier studies of entrepreneurial teams, with different methodologies, that explicitly have included time as a contextual perspective. In that sense this paper also has a methodological aim of evaluating of exploring different methods to capture time as a context.