Entrepreneurship Trajectories

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Framing the entrepreneurship phenomenon

Abstract

Most scholars around the world share the idea that entrepreneurship is a multifaceted phenomenon. As such, it can be studied from different perspectives and defined in a wide variety of ways. For this reason, some scholars argue that entrepreneurship is a label encompassing a hodgepodge (i.e., a mixture) of research.

Hence, entrepreneurship scholars are often invited to propose new frameworks useful for investigating the phenomenon in a proper way and to outline—if possible—the essence of entrepreneurship. An extensive literature review reveals that either a macro level of analysis (referring to the possible approaches that scholars can leverage) or a micro one (considering the variables that scholars ...