The social structure of entrepreneurship as a scientific field
| Autor: | Hans Landström, Gouya Harirchi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Structure (mathematical logic)
Entrepreneurship Strategy and Management Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences Scientific field Management Science and Operations Research 050905 science studies Social relation Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Sociology 0509 other social sciences Positive economics Discipline 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Research Policy. 47:650-662 |
| ISSN: | 0048-7333 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.respol.2018.01.013 |
| Popis: | Entrepreneurship as a scientific field has grown significantly, irrespective of the measures used. In this article we raise the question: How can we understand the evolution and success of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field? In particular, we focus on the social structure of entrepreneurship scholars to explain (1) how they are becoming integrated into larger scholarly communities and (2) how they differ from the way scholars integrate within the field of innovation studies. Based on a unique database and responses from 870 entrepreneurship scholars, we demonstrate that entrepreneurship can be regarded as a phenomenon-driven field bound together by a shared communication system and social interaction rather than strong theoretical influences, i.e., a social scholarly community. We identify two broader social communities; one embedded in entrepreneurship conferences that includes a rather eclectic group of entrepreneurship scholars, and another related to entrepreneurship journals and entrepreneurship economics, characterized by a stronger domain orientation. In contrast, scholars in innovation studies tend to be more theory-driven and are bound together by their disciplinary and theoretical background, i.e., an intellectual scholarly community. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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