The Primordial Soup: Exploring the Emotional Microfoundations of Cluster Genesis

The authors are listed in alphabetical order, and they thank Senior Editor Gino Cattani and two reviewers for their excellent guidance and comments. The authors also thank Rajsheree Agarwal, Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Fiorenza Belussi, Charles Baden-Fuller, Melodie Cartel, Tina Dacin, Fabrizio Ferraro, Hans Frankort, Stefan Haefliger, Leona Henry, Nick Henry, Annelore Huyghe, Livio Lodi, Mahka Moeen, Markus Perkmann, Ryan Raffaelli, Davide Ravasi, Thomas Roulet, Roel Rutten, Bilgehan Uzunca, Myles Shaver, Paul Tracey, Rene Wiedner, Sydney Winter, Charlene Zietsma, and Tammar Zilber for constructive conversations and feedback on our study. A heartfelt grazie to Gianni Lorenzoni, Simone Ferriani, and Katrin Schreiter for their relentless support through this nine-year-long journey. The authors thank our interviewees and informants for their time and are grateful for their comments to the participants of seminars at Cass Business School, IESEG Paris, Tilburg University, University of Trento, OTREG, and the STR Division. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the iBegin conference at Ca’ Foscari University (Venice, 2017), the Academy of Management Conference (2018 and 2020), the EGOS Conference (Tallin, 2019), and the SMS Annual Conference (Paris, 2018)—where the paper was nominated for the SMS Best Paper Award. Remaining errors are ours. Finally, the authors acknowledge the support of the Center for Sports and Business at the Stockholm School of Economics.