Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research: Current Research Practice and Suggestions for the Future*

Per Davidsson and Johan Wiklund
Additional contact information
Per Davidsson: Jönköping International Business School
Johan Wiklund: Jönköping International Business School

A chapter in Entrepreneurship, 2007, pp 245-265 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In their path-breaking article, Low and MacMillan (1988) suggest that entrepreneurship be defined as the “creation of new enterprise.” The purpose of entrepreneurship research should be to “explain and facilitate the role of new enterprise in furthering economic progress” (p. 141). Such a delineation, they hold, would o- and macro-perspectives. They argue that researchers must acknowledge that entrepreneurship studies could and should be carried out at multiple levels of analysis and that these analyses complement each other. The reasons for studying entrepreneurship on multiple levels of analysis lie in the characteristics of the entrepreneurial phenomenon itself.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Orientation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nascent Entrepreneur; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; Entrepreneurship Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-48543-8_12

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783540485438

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48543-8_12

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().