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Research Gaps in Entrepreneurship: The Case Method as an Alternative Approach

Ma. Andrea L. Santiago

Discipline: Economics, Business

 

Abstract:

Entrepreneurship is said to spur the economy. Entrepreneurs, who are considered "agents of change," are also said to have become major employers in both developed and developing countries (Sexton & Kasarda, Eds., 1992; OECD, 1998). However, a statistical link between job creation and entrepreneurship (Acs & Audretsch, 1992; OECD, 1998; Sweeney, 1997) has not been established resulting from definition problems that will be discussed subsequently. Nonetheless, the various readings pointed that for several countries, there is a shift from an economy that is basically corporate and bureaucratic to one that is entrepreneurially inspired.