How International is Entrepreneurship?
Department
Management and Entrepreneurship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-16-2008
Abstract
Nine major entrepreneurship, international business (IB), and management journals used by the Financial Times to rank business schools were examined to see if the amount of international entrepreneurship (IE) research published in major entrepreneurship, IB, and management journals is increasing over time. Findings from two time periods spaced a decade apart indicate that although IE content more than doubled in the entrepreneurship journals, only a modest increase occurred in the international business journals and no increase occurred in the management journals. We proposed and found that: (1) entrepreneurship journals tend to favor replication studies while IB and management journals prefer nonreplications; and (2) because replication is straightforward while nonreplication is more difficult to conceptualize and execute, there are many more replication than nonreplication IE studies. As a result, IE studies appear more frequently in entrepreneurship journals. Managerial and scholarly implications are discussed.
Journal Title
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Journal ISSN
1042-2587
Volume
32
Issue
3
First Page
551
Last Page
558
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1111/j.1540-6520.2008.00240.x