Citation Impact of Entrepreneurship Research
9 May 2006 at 12:11 pm Peter G. Klein 1 comment
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For you citation junkies out there ("bibliometricians"? "citophiles"?), the May 2006 issue of Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice features a symposium on the nature and impact of entrepreneurship research, as measured by citation impact. (The formal title is "Special Issue on Understanding Entrepreneurship Scholarship from a Bibliometric Perspective.") According to the editors, bibliometric analysis suggests that entrepreneurship research contains "multiple but disconnected themes; dominant themes that reflect the disciplinary training and lens of their authors; and considerable dynamism and change in key research themes over time." More, in other words, than a disconnected "potpourri" or "hodgepodge." A fair point, but my sense is that the entreprreneurship literature still has a long way to go before constituting a coherent "field" with a distinct vision, research approach, "paradigm problems," and so on.
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Andrew - Money Supply & Debt Blog | 9 May 2006 at 8:58 pm
Perhaps it is the nature of entrepreneurship itself that leads to these disconnections. Entrepreneurship really is individuals filling in demand gaps in market demand. It thrives on the waves created by other businesses, it moves and evolves rapidly in ways that big businesses can’t. I’ve seen beliefs and attitudes reflected similarly in different entrepreneurs but their techniques and approaches are often radically different. Many times they just built a really great asset and accidently discovered how valueble it could actually be.