Understanding the sources of business growth is central to both the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy. This is a … our theoretical reasoning on two independent sets of data. …

Business growth has become a major theme in the rapidly expanding field of entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, and which are at the same time given only cursory treatment within other lines of research. On the basis of … empirically informed conceptual reasoning, we argue that setting the term ‘entrepreneurship’ equal to ‘start-up of a new …

entrepreneurship research problem of making systematic sense of entrepreneurs that sometimes manage to create significant new economic … using data from the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) project. Our results indicate …

. We compile and present such advice to users of existing data sets and designers of new projects in the following areas …

researchers to address core issues for entrepreneurship research, namely, the processes of creation of new business ventures as … used this type of data set, our purpose being to assist users of current data sets as well as designers of new projects in … definition, choice of level of analysis, operationalization and conceptualization, use of longitudinal data and dealing with …

. This challenge is acutely intense for entrepreneurship which is a strongly age-dependent phenomenon. Although shifting … the prevalence of early stage entrepreneurship by both samples, even when each sample is weighted to match the Australian …

entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs …

-96 period. Our data set is unique in the sense that it captures both enterprise and company group levels of analysis, and in …