Entrepreneurship research has paid insufficient attention to the context in which new
businesses are started. Consequently, efforts to identify factors that consistently lead to …

Besides a number of comprehensive reviews of the entrepreneurship field, a variety of
multidisciplinary perspectives for observing, studying, and understanding entrepreneurship …

Scholars and popular writers have written a great deal about entrepreneurs and the
formation of new companies, but they have not succeeded in predicting when and where …

Abstract Research Summary This article invites scholars to reconsider how the evolution of
entrepreneurial phenomena affects the underlying theories employed in our field. We …

Where do new businesses come from? The textbooks say that the entrepreneur, like the
stork, brings them. But new businesses do not occur with equal likelihood in all societies or …

To provide broad coverage of the rapidly growing field of entrepreneurship, we proceed as
follows. First, an initial section offers a definition of entrepreneurship both as a field of …

This paper takes a macroperspective of entrepreneurship, and focuses on the issues and
events involved in constructing an industrial infrastructure that facilitates and constrains …

For those who monitor the progress of entrepreneurship research, the search for a distinctive
theory of entrepreneurship continues. This is largely due to the phenomenological nature of …

Although entrepreneurship has been defined in many different ways, a common definition
ties it closely to the establishment of new organizations and their viability in early years. 2 By …

We noted in Chapter 1 that the Balboa Bay Conference was a convocation, a gathering of
scholars and active researchers to discuss the vital dynamic entrepreneurship plays in the …