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

Friederike Welter¹; Ted Baker²; David B. Audretsch³; William B. Gartner⁴

¹ Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn and professor at the University of Siegen. · ² Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, director of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Development (RAISED), and senior fellow at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Cape To · ³ Indiana University · ⁴ California Lutheran University and professor of entrepreneurship and the art of innovation at Copenhagen Business School.

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.

DOI

10.1111/etap.12258

Volume

41 (3)

Pages

311-321

Language

en

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