Research

Research on Entrepreneurship can be divided into two levels: (1) the macro-level: research on the macro-level implies investigating the economic causes and consequences of entrepreneurship at the aggregate (industrial, regional, country) level, and (2) the micro-level: the individual or firm level. Questions related with this field are for instance, which people are likely to become an entrepreneur, what are the motives for them to become one and once they are one, what makes them successful?

A solid understanding of these issues is not only beneficial for academic purposes, but also has important implications for policy makers, managers and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship research is interdisciplinary by nature, drawing heavily on the insights from economics, management, psychology, sociology and other disciplines. Several academic journals are exclusively devoted to publish entrepreneurship research, such as Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Venturing or the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Yet, entrepreneurship research also appears with increasing frequency in leading general interest journals in management, economics and other fields