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

Dean A. Shepherd, Karl Wennberg, Roy Suddaby, Johan Wiklund

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

226 Scopus citations

Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)159-196
Number of pages38
JournalJournal of Management
Volume45
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2019

Keywords

  • contextualizing
  • dependent variables
  • engaging
  • entrepreneurship
  • initiating
  • performing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Finance
  • Strategy and Management

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this