Contextualization and the advancement of entrepreneurship research
分析了情境在创业研究中的作用,定义了情境化,并讨论了其在时间、行业、空间、社会、组织、所有权和治理等维度的重要性,最后探讨了开展情境化创业研究的挑战。
This article analyzes the role of context in the advancement of entrepreneurship research. It defines contextualization and discusses why and how it is important in entrepreneurship research analysing the evidence relating to different dimensions of entrepreneurial context, focusing on temporal, industry, spatial, social and organizational, ownership and governance. The nature of entrepreneurship research, with and without contextualization, is explored and finally, the article considers the challenges in undertaking contextualized entrepreneurship research.