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The purpose of this chapter is to construct a working definition of entrepreneurship and research method suiting that definition. To accommodate the readers who are less familiar with recent academic discussions on entrepreneurship, we will start with a brief resume of those discussions, before moving on to our working definition of entrepreneurship.

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  1. Management & Organization, VU Universtiy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter J. Peverelli

  2. School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Jiwen Song

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Peverelli, P.J., Song, J. (2012). Entrepreneurship. In: Chinese Entrepreneurship. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28206-5_2

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