Entrepreneurship Research After Chiles, Bluedorn, and Gupta (2007): Has the Field Delivered on the Promise of Good Scholarship?

Over the past five decades, the academic field of entrepreneurship research has grown from scattered groups of isolated scholars doing primitive unsophisticated research to an international community supporting high-quality scholarship that is seen as key to economic growth and societal development. Several factors have contributed to the flourishing of entrepreneurship research, including the publication of impactful, high-quality, influential articles that help move the field forward and advance knowledge. The focus of the present research is on the path-breaking work of (Chiles et al., Organization Studies 28:467–493, 2007), who advanced a novel unifying paradigm—based on the work on radical subjectivistradical subjectivist Austrian scholar Ludwig Lachmann—for scholars interested in a wide variety of entrepreneurial phenomena. We reflect on the global and sustained impact of this modern classic by reconsidering its main claims and systematically mapping its influence over time, employing a mixed-method design to investigate its legacy. We probe the contributions of (Chiles et al., Organization Studies 28:467–493, 2007), centering our discussion around future opportunities for advancing the radical subjectivistradical subjectivist approach toward entrepreneurship research.