The Dependent Variable

Per Davidsson
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Per Davidsson: Queensland University of Technology

Chapter 7 in Researching Entrepreneurship, 2016, pp 195-215 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract What is it that we are trying to explain? Nothing could be more important in research than clarity about the explanandum, the “dependent variable.” This chapter discusses explananda at different stages of the entrepreneurial process and at different levels of analysis. The spectrum stretches from an individual’s intention to engage in entrepreneurship to success at establishing a new venture in the market to the societal level impact of entrepreneurial endeavors. An important argument is that intermediate explananda like continuation (rather than termination) of the process or evidence of making progress in it should be regarded as theoretical constructs in their own right rather than as proxy operationalizations of success.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Activity; Entrepreneurial Intention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nascent Entrepreneur; Emergence Success (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26692-3_7

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