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Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future DirectionsLowell W. BusenitzUniversity of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business G. Page West IIIWake Forest University Dean ShepherdUniversity of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Management Teresa E. NelsonSuffolk University Gaylen N. ChandlerUtah State University - Department of Management and Human Resources Andrew ZacharakisBabson College - Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship May 4, 2011 Journal of Management, Vol. 29 No. 3, pp. 285-308, 2003 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.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 24 Keywords: entrepreneurship, theory, research Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: May 9, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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