Chapter 1 Introduction: Entrepreneurship Research in International Business Studies

Abstract

The scholarly attention devoted to entrepreneurship in the international business (IB) literature has been relatively modest. Most of the ‘mainstream’ literature on entrepreneurship in management studies (Casson, 1982; Covin & Slevin, 1991; Lumpkin & Dess, 1996; Shane, 2000) has focused on issues such as the determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour and the characteristics of individual entrepreneurs, thereby only occasionally addressing the international context in which entrepreneurial ventures may develop, and the ways in which this international context influences entrepreneurial decision making.

Citation

van Tulder, R., Tavares-Lehmann, A.T. and Verbeke, A. (2011), "Chapter 1 Introduction: Entrepreneurship Research in International Business Studies", Verbeke, A., Tavares-Lehmann, A.T. and Van Tulder, R. (Ed.) Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm (Progress in International Business Research, Vol. 6), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-8862(2011)0000006004