The Social Structure of Entrepreneurial Education as a Scientific FieldShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Academy of Management Learning & Education, ISSN 1537-260X, E-ISSN 1944-9585, Vol. 21, no 1, p. 61-81Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Entrepreneurial education as a scientific field can be regarded as an emerging and growing area of research. In this study we pay particular attention to the community of scholars involved in entrepreneurial education. The aim of the paper is to explore how scholars within the field have integrated into larger scholarly communities. Based on a unique database and web-based responses from 313 entrepreneurial education scholars, we demonstrate that scholars within the field exhibit great variety in their scientific outlooks and appreciation of communication systems. However, we find that the field consists of four scholarly communities characterized by a specific combination of scholarly inspirations, favorite meeting places, and publication channels, of which three clusters are anchored in the field of entrepreneurship, and only one cluster shows a strong entrepreneurial education research identity. Finally, the results indicate a low consolidation across the scholarly communities, which highlights the need for reflections on how the field can achieve increased integration and cohesion in the future.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management , 2022. Vol. 21, no 1, p. 61-81
Keywords [en]
Scientific fields, entrepreneurial education, social development, scholarly communities, networks
National Category
Economics and Business
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45349DOI: 10.5465/amle.2020.0140ISI: 000769418200004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-45349DiVA, id: diva2:1582313
2021-07-302021-07-302022-05-10Bibliographically approved