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Contextualization and the advancement of entrepreneurship research
Journal Contribution - Journal Article
This article analyzes the role of context in the advancement of entrepreneurship research. It defines contextualization and discusses why and how it is important in entrepreneurship research analysing the evidence relating to different dimensions of entrepreneurial context, focusing on temporal, industry, spatial, social and organizational, ownership and governance. The nature of entrepreneurship research, with and without contextualization, is explored and finally, the article considers the challenges in undertaking contextualized entrepreneurship research.
Journal: INTERNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS JOURNAL
ISSN: 0266-2426
Issue: 5
Volume: 32
Pages: 479 - 500
Publication year:2014