Schumpeter’s Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurship Theory and Research

Dan Wadhwani, Geoffrey Jones

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    Abstract

    Despite recent admonitions that ‘history matters’ in entrepreneurship research, there have been few efforts to examine specifically why and how historical reasoning is important in entrepreneurship theory. Drawing on theories of history, this chapter elaborates on how historical constructs of context, time, and change are integral elements of theories of entrepreneurship. The chapter then goes on to describe how three theories of historical temporality—time as structuring, time as sequence/process, and time as constitutive of actors and actions—can help entrepreneurship theorists and researchers understand elements of the entrepreneurial process that conventional behavioral and cognitive approaches usually miss. The chapter identifies the value of these approaches to several specific streams of entrepreneurship research.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Titel Organizations in Time : History, Theory, Methods
    RedaktørerMarcelo Bucheli, Dan Wadhwani
    UdgivelsesstedOxford
    ForlagOxford University Press
    Publikationsdato2014
    Sider192-216
    Kapitel8
    ISBN (Trykt)9780199646890
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 2014

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    Emneord

    • Entrepreneurship theory
    • Entrepreneurial opportunity
    • Institutional entrepreneurship
    • Temporality
    • Context
    • Change

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