What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship
2019 (English)In: Journal of Management, ISSN 0149-2063, E-ISSN 1557-1211, Vol. 45, no 1, p. 159-196Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Entrepreneurship is multifaceted. The purpose of this review is to acknowledge and critically assess the many and varied dependent variables (DVs) of entrepreneurship over the last 17 years. By focusing exclusively on systematically reviewing entrepreneurships DVs, this paper maps out, classifies, and provides order to the phenomena that scholars consider part of this self-defined field of research. Using a systematic selection process and an inductive approach to categorization, we offer a meta-framework for organizing entrepreneurships DVs. On the basis of this meta-framework, entrepreneurship involves the (a) initiation, (b) engagement, and (c) performance of entrepreneurial endeavors embedded in (d) environmental conditions in which an entrepreneurial endeavor is the investment of resources into the pursuit of a potential opportunity. For each category, we offer both a review of the different DVs and opportunities for future research.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC , 2019. Vol. 45, no 1, p. 159-196
Keywords [en]
entrepreneurship; dependent variables; initiating; engaging; performing; contextualizing
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-153649DOI: 10.1177/0149206318799443ISI: 000453462900006OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-153649DiVA, id: diva2:1276265
Note
Funding Agencies|Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities
2019-01-072019-01-072020-10-01