What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship

Shepherd, DA, Wennberg, K, Suddaby, R ORCID: 0000-0002-9167-9180 and Wiklund, J (2019) What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship. Journal of Management, 45 (1). 159 - 196.

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Abstract

© The Author(s) 2018. 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 entrepreneurship’s 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 entrepreneurship’s 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.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	10 Dec 2018 10:08
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:09
DOI:	10.1177/0149206318799443
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3029725

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