The evolving domain of entrepreneurship research

By B. Carlsson, P. Braunerhjelm, Maureen McKelvey, C. Olofsson, L. Persson, Håkan Ylinenpää. Small Business Economics, 2013

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Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This article explores the history of entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize these issues stems partly from a general interest in defining the current research domain and partly from the more specific tasks confronting the prize committee of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Entrepreneurship has developed in many sub-fields within several disciplines—primarily economics, management/business administration, sociology, psychology, economic and cultural anthropology, business history, strategy, marketing, finance, and geography—representing a variety of research traditions, perspectives, and methods. We present an analytical framework that organizes our thinking about the domain of entrepreneurship research by specifying elements, levels of analysis, and the process/context. An overview is provided of where the field stands today and how it is positioned relative to the existing disciplines and new research fields upon which it draws. Areas needed for future progress are highlighted, particularly the need for a rigorous dynamic theory of entrepreneurship that relates entrepreneurial activity to economic growth and human welfare. Moreover, applied work based on more careful design as well as on theoretical models yielding more credible and robust estimates seems also highly warranted.

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

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Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence (2016, background): “Third, joining the two sides of entrepreneurship research discussed by Carlsson et al. (2013), it is possible to suggest that informal institutions measured through the control of corruption and confidence in one’s skills encourage the entrepreneurship required to foster economic growth.”
Knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship integrating Schumpeter, evolutionary economics, and innovation systems (2020, background): “Entrepreneurship thus leads to competition between entrants and incumbents as well as changes in market structure (Carlsson et al. 2013).”
Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: what has been learned? (2019, background): “Entrepreneurship research has evolved rapidly since its origins (Blackburn and Kovalainen 2009; Carlsson et al. 2013).”
The entrepreneurship research in hospitality and tourism (2019, background): “Entrepreneurship, as a research domain with multidisciplinary overlaps, covers a broad set of research questions from different disciplines (Carlsson et al., 2013).”