Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future Directions*

Lowell W. Busenitz, G. Page West, Dean Shepherd, Teresa Nelson, Gaylen Gayled N. Chandler and Andrew Zacharakis
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Lowell W. Busenitz: University of Oklahoma
G. Page West: Wake Forest University
Dean Shepherd: University of Colorado-Boulder
Teresa Nelson: Suffolk University
Gaylen Gayled N. Chandler: Utah State University
Andrew Zacharakis: Babson College

A chapter in Entrepreneurship, 2007, pp 267-291 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This article evaluates the emergent academic field of entrepreneurship to better understand its progress and potential. We apply boundary and exchange concepts to examine 97 entrepreneurship articles published in leading management journals from 1985 to 1999. Some evidence was found of an upward trend in the number of published entrepreneurship articles, although the percentage of entrepreneurship articles remains low. The highly permeable boundaries of entrepreneurship facilitate intellectual exchange with other management areas but sometimes discourage the development of entrepreneurship theory and hinder legitimacy. We argue that focusing entrepreneurship research at the intersection of the constructs of individuals, opportunities, modes of organizing, and the environment will define the field and enhance legitimacy. Decision theory, start–up factors of production, information processing and network theory, and temporal dynamics are put forward for entrepreneurship scholars to explore important research questions in these intersections.

Keywords: Venture Capitalist; Management Journal; Prospect Theory; Strategic Management Journal; Entrepreneurial Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48543-8_13

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