The social structure of entrepreneurship as a scientific field |
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| Authors: | Hans Landström Gouya Harirchi |
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| Institution: | 1. Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship, Lund University, PO Box 7080, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden;2. Open Innovation in Science Research and Competence Center (OIS Center), Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Nussdorfer strasse 64, A-1090 Vienna, Austria |
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| Abstract: | Entrepreneurship as a scientific field has grown significantly, irrespective of the measures used. In this article we raise the question: How can we understand the evolution and success of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field? In particular, we focus on the social structure of entrepreneurship scholars to explain (1) how they are becoming integrated into larger scholarly communities and (2) how they differ from the way scholars integrate within the field of innovation studies. Based on a unique database and responses from 870 entrepreneurship scholars, we demonstrate that entrepreneurship can be regarded as a phenomenon-driven field bound together by a shared communication system and social interaction rather than strong theoretical influences, i.e., a social scholarly community. We identify two broader social communities; one embedded in entrepreneurship conferences that includes a rather eclectic group of entrepreneurship scholars, and another related to entrepreneurship journals and entrepreneurship economics, characterized by a stronger domain orientation. In contrast, scholars in innovation studies tend to be more theory-driven and are bound together by their disciplinary and theoretical background, i.e., an intellectual scholarly community. |
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| Keywords: | I23 M0 O39 Scientific fields Entrepreneurship Innovation Scholarly community Networks |
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