To date, the phenomenon of entrepreneurship has lacked a conceptual framework. In this note we draw upon previous research conducted in the different social science disciplines and applied fields of business to create a conceptual framework for the field. With this framework we explain a set of empirical phenomena and predict a set of outcomes not explained or predicted by conceptual frameworks already in existence in other fields.

The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research

This article outlines a conceptual model of entrepreneurship as an organizational-level phenomenon. The model is intended to depict the organizational system elements that relate to entrepreneurial...

A Conceptual Model of Entrepreneurship as Firm Behavior

Social entrepreneurship, as a practice and a field for scholarly investigation, provides a unique opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This paper puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and/or addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing from other forms of entrepreneurship in the relatively higher priority given to promoting social value and development versus capturing economic value. To stimulate future research the authors introduce the concept of embeddedness as a nexus between theoretical perspectives for the study of social entrepreneurship. Different research methodologies and their implications are discussed.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID984426_code361123.pdf?abstractid=673446&mirid=1&type=2

Social Entrepreneurship Reserach: a Source of Explanation, Prediction and Delight

https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/9619.pdf

Entrepreneurial orientation and small business performance : A Configurational Approach

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has received substantial conceptual and empirical attention, representing one of the few areas in entrepreneurship research where a cumulative body of knowledge i ...

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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance: An Assessment of Past Research and Suggestions for the Future

Entrepreneurship: Past Research and Future Challenges

https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfiles/398/BrocknerHiggins_RegFocusTheory.pdf

Regulatory focus theory and the entrepreneurial process

The Adolescence of Entrepreneurship Research: Specification of Purpose:

In 1988, Murray Low and Ian MacMillan published a review of developments in entrepreneurship research and identified challenges for the future (Low and MacMillan, 1988). Since the appearance of their paper, there has been an explosion of entrepreneurship research. This Special Issue had its genesis a decade after the appearance of the Low and MacMillan article, when nineteen scholars from nine countries were invited to two workshops held at the Jonkoping International Business School (JIBS) in Sweden in the fall of 1998. The purpose of the workshops was, and the purpose of this Special Issue is, to take stock of the developments of the past decade and to identify directions for future research.

Murray B. Low

Papers

Entrepreneurship: Past Research and Future Challenges

Regulatory focus theory and the entrepreneurial process

The Adolescence of Entrepreneurship Research: Specification of Purpose:

Editors' Introduction: Low and MacMillan Ten years on – Achievements and future directions for entrepreneurship research

Effects of strategy and environment on corporate venture success in industrial markets