Entrepreneurship: Exploring the knowledge base

TLDR: In this article, the authors focus on the knowledge producers who have shaped the field over time and the knowledge users who have employed the core works in entrepreneurship in order to develop our knowledge of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship.

About: This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2012-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 388 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Entrepreneurship & Core Knowledge.

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Figure 3b Co-occurrence of Web of Science ‘subject areas’ of journals citing the core knowledge producers during the 1990s

Table 3 Top-ranked ‘entrepreneurship scholars’ – CV-analysis

Table 7 Geographic distribution of users citing the top 20 core contributions

Table 11 Top 20 Web of Science ‘subject areas’ of journals citing the core knowledge over time

Table 10 Top 20 Web of Science ‘subject areas’ of journals citing the core knowledge

Figure 3b Co-occurrence of Web of Science ‘subject areas’ of journals citing the core knowledge producers during the 1990s

Frequently asked questions

Q1. What have the authors contributed in "Exploring the knowledge base" ?

In this study the authors identify the ‘ knowledge producers ’ who have shaped the field over time and their core entrepreneurship research works. 

Q2. What did Nelson and Winter use to build a model of evolutionary changes in organizations?

In their attempts to build a model of evolutionary changes in organizations, Nelson and Winter relied on the Carnegie School of ‘bounded’ and ‘procedural’ rationality in organizations (e.g. Simon, 1959; 1965; Cyert and March, 1963). 

Q3. What is the main argument for a stronger emphasis on entrepreneurship in the innovation process?

In order to better understand economic growth in society, Braunerhjelm, Acs, Audretsch and Carlsson (2009) proposed a stronger emphasis on entrepreneurship in the innovation process, arguing that entrepreneurial activity is the key factor in transferring knowledge to exploit commercial opportunities. 

Q4. What was the first author to endow entrepreneurship with a more precise economic meaning?

The first author to endow entrepreneurship with a more precise economic meaning was Richard Cantillon in his Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (1755/1999), in which he outlined the principles of the early market economy based on individual property rights and economic interdependency. 

Q5. Why do the results indicate that books play an important role in the social sciences?

The results indicate that books play an important role in the social sciences, perhaps because a book-length exposition is needed in order to set out new theoretical contributions in an emerging field. 

Q6. How many pairs of authors were ranked by co-citation frequency?

In addition to the co-citation analysis based on relations between co-cited authors, the authors also used a clustering routine suggested by Persson (1994), where the authors scrutinised all pairs of co-cited authors, ranked by co-citation frequencies, looking for pairs that share one unit. 

Q7. In what period did a number of scholars take an interest in entrepreneurship?

in the 1940s, a number of scholars anchored in economic history began to take an interest in entrepreneurship as an empirical phenomenon. 

Q8. What school of economic thought is the influential in entrepreneurship research?

The Kirznerian school Without doubt, Schumpeter’s view of the function of the entrepreneurial process has been predominant in entrepreneurship research for many years.