Challenging Entrepreneurship Research

Hans Landström, Annaleena Parhankangas, Alain Fayolle and Philippe Riot
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Hans Landström: Lund University
Annaleena Parhankangas: UIC - University of Illinois [Chicago] - University of Illinois System
Alain Fayolle: EM - EMLyon Business School
Philippe Riot: EM - EMLyon Business School

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Abstract: The growth of entrepreneurship research has been accompanied by an increased convergence and institutionalization of the field. In many ways this is of course positive, but it also represents how the field has become "mainstream" with the concomitant risk that individual scholars become embedded in a culture and incentive system that emphasizes and rewards incremental research questions, while reducing the incentives for scholars to conduct challenging research. This book challenges this status quo from accepted theories, methodologies and paradigmatic assumptions, to the relevance (or lack of) for contemporary practice and the impact of key journals on scholars' directions in entrepreneurship research. An invited selection of the younger generation of scholars within the field of entrepreneurship research adopt a critical and constructive posture on what has been achieved in entrepreneurship research, the main assumptions which underly it, but also open-up new paths for creative entrepreneurship research in the future. This is a must-read for all scholars, educators and advanced students in entrepreneurship research.

Date: 2016-06-16
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Published in Routledge, XV-289 p., 2016, 978-1-138-92231-0. ⟨10.4324/9781315685915⟩

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315685915

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