Everyday Entrepreneurship: A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity

Friederike Welter; Ted Baker; David B.  Audretsch; Bill  Gartner

doi:10.1111/etap.12258

Everyday Entrepreneurship: A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity

Friederike Welter, Ted Baker, David B. Audretsch, Bill Gartner

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Abstract

This essay contrasts a perspective that places an excessive focus on technology businesses and growth with a view of entrepreneurship that embraces its heterogeneity. We challenge a taken-for-granted belief that only certain kinds of entrepreneurship might lead to wealth and job creation and additionally suggest that these two outcomes (wealth and job creation) need to be placed within a broader context of reasons, purposes, and values for why and how entrepreneurship emerges. We suggest that a wider and nondiscriminatory perspective on what constitutes entrepreneurship will lead to better theory and more insights that are relevant to the phenomenon.

Original language	English
Journal	Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Volume	41
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	311-321
Number of pages	11
ISSN	1042-2587
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/etap.12258
Publication status	Published - 2017

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