The idea of a garage owner - who starts a business in the garage (or basement or dorm room or kitchen) - this is a very popular contemporary legend, but not entirely accurate. Research now says that entrepreneurs often organizational products: As a rule, they get confidence, business knowledge, and social ties with previous experience in existing organizations. These psychological and social resources to entrepreneurs in the formation of companies. Although belief in the garage entrepreneur contributes to the preservation of American ideals of opportunity and upward social mobility, it offers misleading ideas for future entrepreneurs, since it implies undersocialized of the entrepreneurial process. Individuals, companies, politicians, and business schools will recasting garage, a modern legend and instead focus on the lessons to be learned from understanding the business, organizational products. "Hide
by Pino G. Audia, Christopher I. Rider Source: California Management Review 24 pages. Publication Date: November 1, 2005. Prod. #: CMR322-PDF-ENG
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