Making contributions: personal reflections from the co-creative evolution of entrepreneurship research

Per Davidsson ()
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Per Davidsson: Jönköping International Business School

Small Business Economics, 2023, vol. 61, issue 4, No 2, 1410 pages

Abstract: Abstract This essay reflects on the last few decades’ evolution of Ideas, Evidence, Concepts, and Methods in the multidisciplinary, multi-level, and multi-methodological field of entrepreneurship research. Using illustrations from my own career and how prior recipients of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research guided and inspired them, I describe the journey from early empirical exploration to understand the nature of the phenomenon to more recent, endogenous theory-development and -testing, heralding each as an indispensable steppingstone in meaningful knowledge development. The essay ends with an ode to the collective, co-creating nature of our knowledge-building enterprise.

Keywords: Co-creation; Cross-National; Entrepreneurship; External enabler; Firm growth; History; Knowledge accumulation; New business; Opportunity; Profitability; Research collaboration; Small business; Venture creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 D02 D91 J01 L25 L26 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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