Entrepreneurial Behaviour: A Research Outlook

Maura McAdam () and James A. Cunningham ()
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Maura McAdam: Dublin City University
James A. Cunningham: Northumbria University

Chapter 1 in Entrepreneurial Behaviour, 2019, pp 1-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Entrepreneurial behaviour is central to understanding how entrepreneurs create, develop, maintain and grow new organisations. Despite the importance of entrepreneurial behaviour as a theoretical construct to understand the process of entrepreneurship, extant research is fragmented and lacks a coherent framework as to how entrepreneurial behaviour is enacted in different contexts. In order to address this, this chapter first defines what is traditionally associated with the term. Building on a conceptualisation of entrepreneurial behaviour as action-oriented and observable, a rationale is then provided as to why an individual, contextual and micro-foundational approach is both timely and pertinent. The chapter concludes with a suggested future research agenda including illustrative research questions in order to advance theoretical development with the entrepreneurial behavioural domain.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial behaviour; Individual; Contextual; Microfoundations; Research agenda; Entrepreneurs; Universities; Society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04402-2_1

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