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  • 1.  Paper development experiment

    Posted 10-29-2007 08:57

    Dear Colleagues,

     

    A few years ago I gave a keynote address at a conference under the title "How Entrepreneurship Breeds and Kills Itself". It revolved around the following premises:

     

    P1: (On each level of analysis) there is a tendency for entrepreneurial action and success to inspire / spawn further entrepreneurial action / success.

     

    P2: (On each level of analysis) however, there is also a counter tendency for entrepreneurship to often carry the seed of its own demise.

     

    In the address I discussed these tendencies on the individual, firm, industry, regional and national levels. Of course, my argument was not completely out of the blue – I did use theoretical and empirical references – but admittedly it did not build on a systematic review of the best evidence available.

     

    When I now plan to return to this idea and write it up as a paper I would like to find and use that 'best evidence'. However, rather than doing a complete review myself (for which I am too busy/lazy/inept) or hire an RA to do it (which would have too uncertain an outcome for this loosely defined search task) I would like to see if I can pick your brains, because I am confident that collectively you already know what I need to learn.

     

    So what I am after is support for P1 (entrepreneurship tends to "breed itself") and P2 (entrepreneurship sometimes tends to "kill itself") on the level of

     

    - the individual

    - the firm / organisation

    - the industry / population

    - the region

    - the nation / economy-at-large

     

    I would hope to build on two types of evidence:

     

    1. Theoretical arguments, preferably from disciplinary theories about widely accepted fundamental properties of humans, organisations and societies.
    2. Empirical support, preferable from "within" entrepreneurship research.

     

    If this rings a bell (or several) please send your suggestions via email to per.davidsson@qut.edu.au. Please also indicate what premise (P1 or P2) and what level of analysis your suggested reference deals with.

     

    While I cannot offer co-authorship those who are first to make new suggestions that make it into the paper will be acknowledged. In addition, for what it's worth they will also receive a free copy of my new book "The Entrepreneurship Research Challenge", which will be published by Edward Elgar next year. 

     

    I am very much looking forward to receiving your suggestions and to seeing the outcome of this little paper development experiment.

     

    Best Regards.,

     

    Per

     

     
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