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Toward a sustainable conceptualization of dependent variables in entrepreneurship research
Author(s) -
Cohen Boyd,
Smith Brock,
Mitchell Ron
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.505
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , conceptualization , typology , variance (accounting) , social entrepreneurship , scope (computer science) , value (mathematics) , variable (mathematics) , sociology , positive economics , maximization , economics , marketing , economic geography , microeconomics , business , accounting , computer science , statistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , finance , artificial intelligence , anthropology , programming language
Entrepreneurship researchers have yet to explore the full range variance that occurs in entrepreneurial value creation because we have focused almost exclusively on financial performance as the dependent variable in our research. However, such arbitrary narrowness is not supported by research, which shows entrepreneurs to not focus exclusively on income maximization. Consistent with calls for an expanded view of the consequences of entrepreneurship, we develop a typology of entrepreneurship dependent variables that supports broadening the scope of entrepreneurship research to include economic, environmental and social value. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.