Schumpeter’S Plea: Historical Approaches To Entrepreneurship Research
Schumpeter’s Plea:
Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research
R. Daniel Wadhwani
Assistant Professor of Management &
Fletcher Jones Professor of Entrepreneurship
University of the Pacific
dwadhwani@pacific.edu
Geoffrey Jones
Isidor Straus Professor of Business History
Harvard Business School
gjones@hbs.edu
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Abstract:
This paper outlines the case for why and how historical methods are important to the social scientific study of entrepreneurship. We begin by surveying the changing ways in which historical reasoning has been used in the development of entrepreneurship theory over the last century. We show that, despite theoretical agreement on the importance of context in the study of entrepreneurship, empirical research in recent years has tended to display declining analytical attention to historical setting in favor of focusing on entrepreneurial behavior and cognition. We highlight why analysis of historical context as well as behavior is essential to the......
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