Abstract
This thesis is divided into three interrelated projects. The first paper provides a contingency review and outlook of future research concerning entrepreneurial strategies. The purpose is to overcome the inconsistencies in theoretical development and to raise the phenomenon of outliers in an effort to induce questions and future scientific research opportunities. The second paper focuses on understanding the emergence of industries through social movements and entrepreneurial communities. The objective is to devise a strategy where concepts of social movements and communities can be implemented in the literature of entrepreneurship and the question of how industries emerge can be explored. The third paper is an extension of the previous study where the focus is more on understanding the emergence of the 3D printing industry while implementing social movements. This study gives a more actor centric view in comparison to other studies that implement an institutional and entrepreneurial perspective when trying to understand how industries emerge. The objective of this study is to not only to answer the question of how industries emerge but also to explain what happens before an industry is created, what process is involved and what actors, apart from entrepreneurs, may be part of the process that leads to industry emergence.