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

作者：Friederike Welter, Ted Baker, David Bruce Audretsch, William B. Gartner · 发表于：Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1111/etap.12258 · 被引用次数：800 · 研究领域：Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences、Innovation and Socioeconomic Development、University-Industry-Government Innovation Models

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.