Toward a sustainable conceptualization of dependent variables in entrepreneurship research
✍ Scribed by Boyd Cohen; Brock Smith; Ron Mitchell
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0964-4733
- DOI
- 10.1002/bse.505
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Entrepreneurship researchers have yet to explore the full range variance that occurs in entrepreneurial value creation because we have focused almost exclusively on financial performance as the dependent variable in our research. However, such arbitrary narrowness is not supported by research, which shows entrepreneurs to not focus exclusively on income maximization. Consistent with calls for an expanded view of the consequences of entrepreneurship, we develop a typology of entrepreneurship dependent variables that supports broadening the scope of entrepreneurship research to include economic, environmental and social value. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.