The Focus of Entrepreneurial Research: Contextual and Process Issues
回顾了Low和MacMillan（1988）以来创业行为研究，强调应关注情境和过程，探讨了启发式、机会识别、信息搜索、组织形态及外部环境对创业活动的影响，并建议未来研究不同类型创业者（如新生、新手、连续、组合创业者）及不同组织形态（如公司风险投资、管理层收购、特许经营、家族企业继承）。
Low and MacMillan (1988) suggested that research into entrepreneurial behavior should consider contextual issues and identify the processes that explain rather than merely describe the entrepreneurial phenomenon. Recent studies focusing upon entrepreneurial behavior, especially heuristics, and differences between ‘types’ of entrepreneurs are discussed in this review. The literature focusing upon opportunity recognition and information search is examined. Further, the literature relating to the organizational forms selected by entrepreneurs is discussed. Studies examining the relationship between external environmental conditions and the nature of entrepreneurial activity are reviewed. We conclude that additional research attention should be directed towards gaining a greater understanding of the behavior of different types of entrepreneur (i.e., nascent, novice, serial, and portfolio entrepreneurs) and the different organizational forms selected (I.e., corporate venturing, management buy-outs and buy-ins, franchising, and the inheritance of a family firm) by entrepreneurs.