The Entrepreneurship Research Challenge

Entrepreneurship is more difficult to research that most other social and behavioral phenomenon, suggests Davidsson (entrepreneurship, Queensland U. of Technology, Australia), because it is an emerging, process phenomenon; is highly heterogenous; and concerns multiple levels of analysis, characteristics that have consequences for sampling and operationalization as well as for analysis and interpretation. In this volume he reflects on the challenges of researching entrepreneurship, covering such topics as the types and contextual fit of entrepreneurial processes, strategies for dealing with heterogeneity in entrepreneurship research, method issues in the study of venture start-up processes, method challenges and opportunities in the psychological study of entrepreneurship, interpreting performance in research on interdependent entrepreneurship, and the contributions of entrepreneurship research for business and policy practice. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)