Paul Davidson Reynolds is the 2004 winner of the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In this article Professor Reynolds? contributions are summarized in terms of four sets of triplets. The first is as innovator, coordinator and disseminator of novel and...

In this article we investigate how small business managers? beliefs concerning the con-sequences of growth influence their overall growth attitude. We find this to be an important question. Although previous research has shown that small firm growth is the most important source of new jobs...

This study examines nascent entrepreneurship by comparing individuals engaged in nascent activities (n = 380) with a control group (n=608), after screening a sample from the general population (n=30,427). The study then follows the developmental process of nascent entrepreneurs for 18 months....

This study explores heterogeneity in how firms have achieved high growth. Using the population of all firms in Sweden with more than 20 employees in existence in 1996 (n= 11,748), we analyzed their development for each year of the previous 10 years (1987 to 1996). From this population of all...

The emergent literature on dynamic capabilities and their role in value creation is riddled with inconsistencies, overlapping definitions, and outright contradictions. Yet, the theoretical and practical importance of developing and applying dynamic capabilities to sus-tain a firm?s competitive...

This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research, based on the author?s experience from two decades of empirical work in this area. As there is no shortage of ideas in the literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what...

The research presented here addresses the following problems that we perceive in research on the development of young firms. First, we feel there is a lack of holistic, yet quantifiable and generalizable ways to assess the state of newly started firms. Quantitative research typically relies on...

Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever-present threat of business failure arising from limited financial resources and aggressive competition in the marketplace. Under these circumstances, conflicting priorities arise and the entrepreneur is thus faced with certain dilemmas. In seeking to...

Sales growth and employment growth are the two most widely used growth indicators for new ventures; yet, sales growth and employment growth are not interchangeable measures of new venture growth. Rather, they are related, but somewhat independent constructs that respond differently to a variety...

Scott A. Shane is the 2009 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. In this article we discuss and analyze Shane?s most important contributions to the field of entrepreneurship. His contribution is extraordinarily broad in scope, which makes it difficult to pinpoint one or a few...