Envisioning Entrepreneurship’s Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas

Dean A. Shepherd; Johan Wiklund; Dimo Dimov

doi:10.1177/10422587211026872

Envisioning Entrepreneurship’s Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas

Dean A. Shepherd, Johan Wiklund, Dimo Dimov

Whitman School of Management

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Abstract

The future of the field of entrepreneurship is bright primarily because of the many research opportunities to make a difference. However, as scholars how can we find these opportunities and choose the ones most likely to contribute to the literature? This essay introduces me-search and a special issue of research-agenda papers from leading scholars as tools for blazing new trails in entrepreneurship research. Me-search and the agenda papers point to the importance of solving a practical problem; problematizing, contextualizing, and abstracting entrepreneurship research; and using empirical theorizing to explore entrepreneurial phenomena.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	955-966
Number of pages	12
Journal	Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Volume	45
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587211026872
State	Published - Sep 2021

Keywords

cognition/knowledge/learning
creativity/innovation
decision making
entrepreneurial behavior/bricolage
entrepreneurial orientation

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Business and International Management
Economics and Econometrics

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