Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development

By William B. Gartner. 2001

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Academic entrepreneurship (re)defined: significance and implications for the scholarship of higher education (2010, background): “However, the study of entrepreneurship has been hindered by a lack of scholarly consensus on the meaning of entrepreneurship (Gartner 2001), and by the highly varied influences of a multitude of otherwise disconnected social science disciplines.”
Regulatory focus and new venture performance: A study of entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation under conditions of risk versus uncertainty (2008, background): “This fragmented approach has limited the development of more comprehensive theory within the fi eld of entrepreneurship (Gartner, 2001).”
Enacting entrepreneurship as social value creation (2011, background): “In several ways, we can see what Gartner (2001) calls the unstated assumptions about growth, in effect that it is only economic growth that matters.”
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? (2006, background): “The academic study of entrepreneurship has been described as "a broad label under which a hodgepodge of research is housed" (Shane and Venkataraman, p. 217) and a "cacophony of results and ideas" (Gartner, 2001, p. 27).”
Advancing a Framework for Coherent Research on Women's Entrepreneurship (2007, background): “The various topics in the entrepreneurship field do not constitute a congruous whole” (Gartner, 2001, p. 34).”
Pathways to Successful Entrepreneurship: Parenting, Personality, Early Entrepreneurial Competence, and Interests. (2004, background): “Much more difficult to answer is the question of who entrepreneurs are and how they become what they are (Gartner, 2001; Hisrich, 1990).”
Mixed methods studies in entrepreneurship research: Applications and contributions (2012, background): “Several authors defend the use of a variety of methods in entrepreneurship research, using quantitative and qualitative approaches (Gartner 2001; Ucbasaran, Westhead, and Wright 2001; Brush et al. 2003).”
Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research (2012, background): “Moreover, other authors have said that our effort has led to better connected and specified explanations for entrepreneurship and has facilitated the development of the field’s legitimacy (Busenitz et al., 2003; Davidsson, Delmar, & Wiklund, 2002; Gartner, 2001).”
Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intent: A Meta–Analytic Test and Integration of Competing Models (2012, methodology): “Theory driven meta-analysis provides a method to address unresolved research questions and reach “a sense of theoretical clarity” (Gartner, 2001, p. 28) of the relationships that entrepreneurship researchers strive to understand.”