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  • March 2020
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  • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Context, Time, and Change: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research

By: R. Daniel Wadhwani, David A. Kirsch, Frederike Welter, William B. Gartner and Geoffrey Jones
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Abstract

The article discusses the value of historical methods and reasoning in strategic entrepreneurship research and theory. A framework is introduced for integrating history into entrepreneurship theory. The framework demonstrates how historical assumptions play a formative role in operationalizing time and context in entrepreneurship research. It shows how variations in these treatments of time and context shape theoretical claims about entrepreneurial opportunities, actions, and processes of change.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship; History; Research; Theory

Citation

Wadhwani, R. Daniel, David A. Kirsch, Frederike Welter, William B. Gartner, and Geoffrey Jones. "Context, Time, and Change: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 14, no. 1 (March 2020): 3–19.
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Geoffrey G. Jones

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