Contextualization and the advancement of entrepreneurship research
By Shaker A. Zahra, Mike Wright, Sondos G. Abdelgawad. 2014
660 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This article analyzes the role of context in the advancement of entrepreneurship research. It defines contextualization and discusses why and how it is important in entrepreneurship research analysing the evidence relating to different dimensions of entrepreneurial context, focusing on temporal, industry, spatial, social and organizational, ownership and governance. The nature of entrepreneurship research, with and without contextualization, is explored and finally, the article considers the challenges in undertaking contextualized entrepreneurship research.
Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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In Accounting
- Frank J. van Rijnsoever
- Mike Wright
- Ute Stephan
- Donald S. Siegel
- Erkko Autio
- E. Stam
- P. Muñoz
- Lucio Fuentelsaz
In Management of Technology and Innovation
- Frank J. van Rijnsoever
- Mike Wright
- Ute Stephan
- Donald S. Siegel
- Erkko Autio
- David B. Audretsch
- David Urbano
- E. Stam
In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Ute Stephan
- Frank J. van Rijnsoever
- Erkko Autio
- Marjan Gorgievski
- Mike Wright
- Dominika Wach
- E. Stam
- Donald S. Siegel
Citations in the corpus
- Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector (2018, background): “…technological objects (e.g., Leonardi, 2011; Majchrzak & Malhotra, 2013; Nambisan et al., 2017), the digital technology characteristics-mechanism links we propose may be relational and probabilistic yet of high generalizability across sectors (and other context dimension; see Zahra et al., 2014).”
- Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context (2014, background): “While some early studies gave consideration to the context in which entrepreneurship occurs, research attention to contextual influences on entrepreneurial behaviors has been typically ad hoc if considered at all (see Zahra et al., 2014 for a review).”
- More than money: Developing an integrative multi-factorial measure of entrepreneurial success (2016, background): “Our multi-dimensional conceptualization of entrepreneurial success also enables greater contextualization of firm performance – and so, links to recent calls for attention to context in entrepreneurship research (Welter, 2011; Zahra and Wright, 2011; Zahra et al., 2014).”
- Explaining the entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in emerging economies: The intermediate roles of absorptive capacity and improvisation (2017, positive): “A firm possessing and acting on an EO automatically generates large amounts of new information in the course of its activities (e.g., Zahra et al., 2014).”
- A critical review of entrepreneurial ecosystems research: towards a future research agenda (2017, background): “EE scholars have pointed to a need to understand entrepreneurship in broader contexts such as their regional, temporal and social settings (Autio, Kenney, Mustar, Siegel, & Wright, 2014; Spilling, 1996; Van de Ven, 1993; Zahra & Wright, 2011; Zahra et al., 2014).”
- Entrepreneurial ecosystem elements (2019, background): “Building on previous movements that decentred the individual entrepreneur as the sole locus of value creation, the new contextual turn emphasizes the importance of situating the entrepreneurial phenomenon in a broader context that incorporates temporal, spatial, social, organizational and market dim”