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Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

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Content Inside: 07-007 Copyright 2006 by Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda Geoffrey Jones R. Daniel Wadhwani 1 Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda Geoffrey Jones Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School gjones@hbs.edu R. Daniel Wadhwani Assistant Professor of Management and Fletcher Jones Professor of Entrepreneurship University of the Pacific 2 Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda During the 1940s and 1950s business historians pioneered the study of entrepreneurship. The interdisciplinary Center for Research on Entrepreneurial History based at Harvard Business School which included Joseph Schumpeter and Alfred Chandler and its journal Explorations in Entrepreneurial History were key institutional drivers of the research agenda. However the study of entrepreneurship ran into formidable methodological roadblocks and attention shifted to the corporation leaving the study of entrepreneurship fragmented and marginal. Nevertheless business historians have made significant contributions to the study of entrepreneurship through their diverse coverage of countries regions and industries and in contrast to much management research over the past two decades - through exploring how the economic social organizational and institutional context matters to evaluating entrepreneurship. This working paper suggests that there are now exciting opportunities for renewing the research agenda on entrepreneurship building on the strong roots already in place and benefiting from engaging with advances made in the study of entrepreneurial behavior and cognition. There are opportuniti ...

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