Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship
这篇社论强调全球金融危机、自然灾害或新冠疫情等事件对创业有重大影响，但文献缺乏深入分析。它提出基于事件的方法，通过描述事件特征和因果机制，整合情境与时间来预测创业活动。
Although events such as the global financial crisis, natural disasters, or the COVID-19 pandemic have large impacts on entrepreneurship, the literature lacks a differentiated analysis of such events. This editorial highlights the importance of events which are discrete and bounded in space and time, unexpected, and strong enough to produce change that can lead to subsequent events. An event based approach is well suited to integrate context and time to predict entrepreneurial activity. We provide a more systematic description of events, their characteristics, and causal mechanisms to allow more holistic and generalizable analysis of the role of events in entrepreneurship.