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Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future Directions

In: Entrepreneurship

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  • Lowell W. Busenitz

    (University of Oklahoma)

  • G. Page West

    (Wake Forest University)

  • Dean Shepherd

    (University of Colorado-Boulder)

  • Teresa Nelson

    (Suffolk University)

  • Gaylen Gayled N. Chandler

    (Utah State University)

  • Andrew Zacharakis

    (Babson College)

Abstract

This article evaluates the emergent academic field of entrepreneurship to better understand its progress and potential. We apply boundary and exchange concepts to examine 97 entrepreneurship articles published in leading management journals from 1985 to 1999. Some evidence was found of an upward trend in the number of published entrepreneurship articles, although the percentage of entrepreneurship articles remains low. The highly permeable boundaries of entrepreneurship facilitate intellectual exchange with other management areas but sometimes discourage the development of entrepreneurship theory and hinder legitimacy. We argue that focusing entrepreneurship research at the intersection of the constructs of individuals, opportunities, modes of organizing, and the environment will define the field and enhance legitimacy. Decision theory, start–up factors of production, information processing and network theory, and temporal dynamics are put forward for entrepreneurship scholars to explore important research questions in these intersections.

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  • Lowell W. Busenitz & G. Page West & Dean Shepherd & Teresa Nelson & Gaylen Gayled N. Chandler & Andrew Zacharakis, 2007. "Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future Directions," Springer Books, in: Álvaro Cuervo & Domingo Ribeiro & Salvador Roig (ed.), Entrepreneurship, pages 267-291, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-48543-8_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48543-8_13
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    Cited by:

    1. Dumitru, Stratan, 2017. "Perspectives For Development Social Entrepreneurship In Republic Of Moldova," APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, AGRIMBA, vol. 10(4-5), April.
    2. Spanjer, Anne, 2017. "The impact of experience on the behavior and performance of self-employed and entrepreneurs. Three empirical studies," Other publications TiSEM 6684507a-1de9-47b5-9da7-3, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

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