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Entrepreneurship as a Scientific Research Programme*

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In this article entrepreneurship as a scientific research programmeis developed and presented. In this relatively new field of study many different theories have emerged that try to explain the phenomenon of new enterprise or venture creation. After a brief treatment of the antecedents and historic development of entrepreneurship, the author discusses and suggests what should be the distinctive domain of entrepreneurship research. He then develops and presents the different paradigms or theoretical approaches that have emerged in this field. An attempt is made to classify the diverse theories based on the various theoretical approaches to the study of entrepreneurship. The aim of this paper is not only to delimit this broad field of study but also to offer a guide for future empirical research and theoretical developments.

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*Originally published in Revista Europea de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa, 1999, 8(3). The present version is a revised, updated and extended version of the original paper. The most relevant recent bibliography has been incorporated into it.

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