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A “Business Researcher” View on Opportunities for Psychology in Entrepreneurship Research
Author(s) -
Davidsson Per
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/apps.12071
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , leverage (statistics) , psychology , psychological research , field (mathematics) , engineering ethics , management science , epistemology , sociology , social psychology , knowledge management , political science , economics , computer science , engineering , philosophy , mathematics , machine learning , pure mathematics , law
In this short essay I offer some “business researcher” advice on how to leverage a strong background in psychology when attempting to contribute to the maturing field of “entrepreneurship research”. Psychologists can benefit from within‐discipline research, e.g. on emergence, small groups, fit, and expertise as well as method strengths in, e.g. experimentation, operationalisation of constructs, and multi‐level modelling. However, achieving full leverage of these strengths requires a clear conceptualisation of “entrepreneurship” as well as insights into the challenges posed by the nature of this class of phenomena.