Foundational Research in Entrepreneurship Studies

Golshan Javadian is Assistant Professor of Management at Morgan State University, USA.Vishal K. Gupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Management at Culverhouse College of Commerce, University of Alabama, USA.Dev K. Dutta is Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the university-wide Minor in Entrepreneurship at the Peter T Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, USA.Grace Chun Guo is Associate Professor of Management and the MBA Academic Faculty Director at the Jack Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University, USA. Arturo E. Osorio is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, Senior Fellow at the Cornwell Center for Metropolitan Studies, and Fellow at the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development at Rutgers University, USA.Banu Ozkazanc-Pan is AssociateProfessor of Management and Entrepreneurship Center Fellow at the College of Management, and Director of the Early Educator Accelerator and Innovation Lab, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Currently, she is also Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at Brown University, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. “Entrepreneur as a Person at Crossroads” – A Reflection on Kets de Vries (1977).- 3.The Urban Quality Of Life And Entrepreneurship: Past, Present, And Future.- 4. Danny Miller (1983) and the emergence of the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) construct.- 5.New Venture Creation: From Gartner to the Present.- 6. Bowen and Hisrich (1986) on the female entrepreneur: 30 years of research and new directions for gender and entrepreneurship scholarship.- 7. Intending To Frame Entrepreneurship Research:Thirty Years After Bird (1988).- 8. The Rich Legacy of Covin and Slevin (1989) and Lumpkin and Dess (1996): A Constructive Critical Analysis of their Deep Impact on Entrepreneurial Orientation Research.- 9. William Baumol’s ‘Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive’.- 10. The Entrepreneurial 'Mindset': Entrepreneurial Intentions from the Entrepreneurial Event to Neuroentrepreneurship.- 11. Fool’s gold or Goldrush? An Entrepreneurial Dilemma.- 12. Entrepreneurial Opportunities as the Heart of Entrepreneurship Research.- 13. Conclusion.