What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship

被引:185
作者
Shepherd, Dean A. [1 ]
Wennberg, Karl [2 ]
Suddaby, Roy [3 ,4 ]
Wiklund, Johan [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[2] Linkoping Univ, Linkoping, Sweden
[3] Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
[4] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
[5] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
关键词
entrepreneurship; dependent variables; initiating; engaging; performing; contextualizing; SELF-EMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS; WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS; TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER; VENTURE CAPITALIST; FOUNDING TEAMS; OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATION; IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS;
D O I
10.1177/0149206318799443
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Entrepreneurship is multifaceted. The purpose of this review is to acknowledge and critically assess the many and varied dependent variables (DVs) of entrepreneurship over the last 17 years. By focusing exclusively on systematically reviewing entrepreneurship's DVs, this paper maps out, classifies, and provides order to the phenomena that scholars consider part of this self-defined field of research. Using a systematic selection process and an inductive approach to categorization, we offer a meta-framework for organizing entrepreneurship's DVs. On the basis of this meta-framework, entrepreneurship involves the (a) initiation, (b) engagement, and (c) performance of entrepreneurial endeavors embedded in (d) environmental conditions in which an entrepreneurial endeavor is the investment of resources into the pursuit of a potential opportunity. For each category, we offer both a review of the different DVs and opportunities for future research.
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页码:159 / 196
页数:38
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