Chapter 1 The Distinctive Domain of Entrepreneurship Research

By Sankaran Venkataraman. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 2019

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In this chapter an argument is made for a clear articulation for the exclusive domain of entrepreneurship research. To date, the entrepreneurship academic community has neglected to define clear boundaries as to what distinguishes entrepreneurship scholarship from other closely related fields. It is argued here that the well-worn constructs of firm performance or success and failure of the individual entrepreneur do not provide the field the clarity of purpose and unique domain it desires. Similarly, the context of small business is not what will bring singular clarity for the field. Instead, this chapter argues that entrepreneurship research should be focused upon understanding how opportunities to bring future goods and services into existence occur.

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

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Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis (2019, neutral): “A group of seminal articles on entrepreneurship (Cluster 5b), by Baker and Nelson (2005), Sarasvathy (2001), Schumpeter (1934), Shane and Venkatraman (2000), and Venkataraman (1997), form the basis of social entrepreneurship research by adopting an entrepreneurship perspective.”
Examining Entrepreneurship Through Indigenous Lenses (2018, background): “In a similar vein, Venkataraman (1997) argued that entrepreneurship was an individual’s ability to see opportunities to create future goods and services.”
Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action (2018, background): “Despite the centrality of uncertainty in theories of entrepreneurial action, and in some sense, the essentiality of uncertainty in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities (Hunt & Song, 2015; McMullen & Shepherd, 2006; Venkataraman, 1997), there remains a persistent question as to whether entrep”
Individual capital and social entrepreneurship: Role of formal institutions (2020, background): “New business creation requires substantial resources (Bourdieu, 1986; Davidsson & Honig, 2003; Venkataraman, 1997), which are sourced from internal and external environments (Cai, Hughes, & Yin, 2014).”
Entrepreneurship as Catalyst for Sustainable Development: Opening the Black Box (2019, background): “Venkataraman [19] describes entrepreneurship as a process of opportunity recognition, the creation of goods and the exploitation of opportunities.”
Resources and Relationships in Entrepreneurship: An Exchange Theory of the Development and Effects of the Entrepreneur-Investor Relationship (2017, background): “In research on the end stage, scholars have highlighted factors that predict the formalization of the relationship through an investment round (e.g., Florin, Lubatkin, & Schulze, 2003; Shane & Cable, 2002; Venkataraman, 1997).”
Action! Moving beyond the intendedly-rational logics of entrepreneurship (2018, background): “Entrepreneurship has been portrayed as a nexus of opportunities and enterprising individuals (Venkataraman, 1997; Eckhardt and Shane, 2003).”
Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions (2019, background): “…recognition as one of the most distinctive and fundamental features of entrepreneurial behavior (Kirzner, 1979; Stevenson & Jarillo, 2007; Venkataraman, 1997), which is also a key construct in many recent entrepreneurship models (Gaglio & Katz, 2001; Baron, 2006; Tang et al.,…”
The throne vs. the kingdom: Founder control and value creation in startups (2017, background): “Within high-potential startups, high rates of growth necessitate the attraction of a very high percentage of outside resources (Venkataraman, 1997), and the most valuable of those resources are usually in limited supply (Peteraf, 1993).”
The entrepreneurship research in hospitality and tourism (2019, background): “…and Willard (1993); Cornelius et al. (2006); Low (2001); Morris et al. (2001, 2001a,b), Phan (2004); Shane (2000); Shane and Venkataraman (2000); Venkataraman (1997); Wiklund et al. (2011), and Woo et al. (1991) highlighted progress on various points in the entrepreneurship literature from…”
The role of problem solving ability on innovative behavior and opportunity recognition in university students (2018, background): “…unit of analysis A commonly focused analysis in entrepreneurship research over the last 30 years has been the ‘opportunity’, most simply defined as any situation in which new products or services can be development of production (Casson, 1982; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Venkataraman, 1997).”
An effectual leadership perspective for developing rural entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “The willingness to proactively accept and attempt to manage risks while employing innovation to either exploit market inefficiencies and changes in demand or exploit new technology to disrupt markets is not universally distributed within the population (Venkataraman 1997).”