Under the Thatcher Government′s “Enterprise Culture”, the size of the small business sector has frequently been taken as a key indicator of economic success in Britain. Measurement of achievement in such terms does indeed indicate a high degree of economic buoyancy. However, a deeper...

Examines the intellectual structure of the fieldof entrepreneurship research by using co-citation analysis and surveys ofentrepreneurship scholars. First, co-citation analysis was used to establish acollective view of the structure of entrepreneurship literature as revealed byactive researchers,...