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What Is Entrepreneurship?

In: Researching Entrepreneurship

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  • Per Davidsson

    (Queensland University of Technology
    Jönköping International Business School)

Abstract

What is entrepreneurship? To do research on entrepreneurship, we first need to decide what we mean by that term. A challenge here is that entrepreneurship has many definitions and connotations. As a societal phenomenon, this chapter proposes that entrepreneurship be defined as the competitive behaviors that drive the market process, alternatively phrased as the introduction of new economic activity that leads to change in the marketplace. The chapter elaborates on the advantages and implications of this choice of perspective.

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  • Per Davidsson, 2016. "What Is Entrepreneurship?," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: Researching Entrepreneurship, edition 2, chapter 1, pages 1-19, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-3-319-26692-3_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26692-3_1
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    Cited by:

    1. Sebastian Markus Szambelan & Yi Dragon Jiang, 2020. "Effectual control orientation and innovation performance: clarifying implications in the corporate context," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 54(3), pages 865-882, March.
    2. Packard, Mark D., 2017. "Where did interpretivism go in the theory of entrepreneurship?," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 32(5), pages 536-549.
    3. Yilmaz Bayar & Marius Dan Gavriletea & Zeki Ucar, 2018. "Financial Sector Development, Openness, and Entrepreneurship: Panel Regression Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-11, September.
    4. Per L. Bylund & Mark D. Packard, 2022. "Subjective value in entrepreneurship," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 58(3), pages 1243-1260, March.

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