The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields

Roy Thurik, David B. Audretsch, Joern Hendrich Block, Andrew E. Burke, Martin Carree, Marcus Dejardin, Cornelius A. Rietveld, Mark Sanders, Ute Stephan, Johan Wiklund

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The remarkable ascent of entrepreneurship witnessed as a scientific field over the last 4 decades has been made possible by entrepreneurship’s ability to absorb theories, paradigms, and methods from other fields such as economics, psychology, sociology, geography, and even biology. The respectability of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline is now evidenced by many other fields starting to borrow from the entrepreneurship view. In the present paper, seven examples are given from this “pay back” development. These examples were first presented during a seminar at the Erasmus Entrepreneurship Event called what has the entrepreneurship view to offer to other academic fields? This article elaborates on the core ideas of these presentations and focuses on the overarching question of how entrepreneurship research impacts the development of other academic fields. We found that entrepreneurship research questions the core assumptions of other academic fields and provides new insights into the antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of their respective core phenomena. Moreover, entrepreneurship research helps to legitimize other academic fields both practically and academically.
langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)727-751
Nombre de pages25
journalSmall Business Economics
Volume62
Numéro de publication2
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 22 mai 2023

Financement

The article is the result of the seminar “What has the entrepreneurship view to offer to other academic fields?” The seminar was initiated by Roy Thurik and organized by Jörn Block and Andrew Burke. In the seminar, several scholars were invited to present their views on how entrepreneurship research has influenced their particular field: David Audretsch (Public Policy), Martin Carree (Industrial Organization), Marcus Dejardin (Culture), Cornelius Rietveld (Genetic Epidemiology), Mark Sanders (Macro-Economics), Ute Stephan (Occupational Health), and Johan Wiklund (Clinical Psychology). We thank the Erasmus School of Economics, and in particular the department of Applied Economics, for financing the Erasmus Entrepreneurship Event that took place in Rotterdam on November 26, 2021. The event included the above seminar and Roy Thurik’s valedictory address called Entrepreneurship, knowledge creation, and more.

Bailleurs de fondsNuméro du bailleur de fonds
Cornelius Rietveld
Erasmus Entrepreneurship Event
Johan Wiklund
Marcus Dejardin
Roy Thurik
department of Applied Economics
Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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