TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields
AU - Thurik, A. Roy
AU - Audretsch, David B.
AU - Block, Jörn H.
AU - Burke, Andrew
AU - Carree, Martin A.
AU - Dejardin, Marcus
AU - Rietveld, Cornelius A.
AU - Sanders, Mark
AU - Stephan, Ute
AU - Wiklund, Johan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/5/22
Y1 - 2023/5/22
N2 - The remarkable ascent of entrepreneurship witnessed as a scientific field over the last 4 decades has been made possible by entrepreneurship’s ability to absorb theories, paradigms, and methods from other fields such as economics, psychology, sociology, geography, and even biology. The respectability of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline is now evidenced by many other fields starting to borrow from the entrepreneurship view. In the present paper, seven examples are given from this “pay back” development. These examples were first presented during a seminar at the Erasmus Entrepreneurship Event called what has the entrepreneurship view to offer to other academic fields? This article elaborates on the core ideas of these presentations and focuses on the overarching question of how entrepreneurship research impacts the development of other academic fields. We found that entrepreneurship research questions the core assumptions of other academic fields and provides new insights into the antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of their respective core phenomena. Moreover, entrepreneurship research helps to legitimize other academic fields both practically and academically.
AB - The remarkable ascent of entrepreneurship witnessed as a scientific field over the last 4 decades has been made possible by entrepreneurship’s ability to absorb theories, paradigms, and methods from other fields such as economics, psychology, sociology, geography, and even biology. The respectability of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline is now evidenced by many other fields starting to borrow from the entrepreneurship view. In the present paper, seven examples are given from this “pay back” development. These examples were first presented during a seminar at the Erasmus Entrepreneurship Event called what has the entrepreneurship view to offer to other academic fields? This article elaborates on the core ideas of these presentations and focuses on the overarching question of how entrepreneurship research impacts the development of other academic fields. We found that entrepreneurship research questions the core assumptions of other academic fields and provides new insights into the antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of their respective core phenomena. Moreover, entrepreneurship research helps to legitimize other academic fields both practically and academically.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160044055&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11187-023-00781-3
DO - 10.1007/s11187-023-00781-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 38625186
AN - SCOPUS:85160044055
SN - 0921-898X
VL - 62
SP - 727
EP - 751
JO - Small Business Economics
JF - Small Business Economics
IS - 2
ER -