Entrepreneurial Studies: The Dynamic Research Front of a Developing Social Science

Barbara Cornelius, Hans Landström and Olle Persson

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2006, vol. 30, issue 3, 375-398

Abstract: Entrepreneurship research has been built upon a historical foundation grounded in economic change. To understand the development of the field, it is useful to understand the motivations and interests of key scholars and to trace the linkages between these scholars and other authors, from the transient to the contributor. This has been done through a bibliometric analysis of research articles cited between 1982 and 2004. Entrepreneurship has developed from a subdiscipline of management studies reliant on alien terms and cognitive methods toward a separate field with increasing complexities of its own. While not fully mature, entrepreneurship shows all the signs of a maturing field from its increasingly internal orientation and the establishment of key areas of research through to an enhanced, discipline–specific, theoretical approach with a professional language of its own.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2006.00125.x

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