I'm not sure what you're looking for Sneha. Certainly entrepreneurship has been practised for millennia and we've been conducting research into this area for a long time.
You might find one or two of the following articles interesting, but as I say, it really depends on what you're looking for specifically.
Grant, P. & Perren, L. (2002) Small Business and Entrepreneurial Research. International Small Business Journal, 20 (2), p. 185-211
Plummer, L., A. , Haynie, M., J. & Godesiabois, J. (2007) An Essay on the Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunity. 28, p. 363.
Shane, S. & Venkataraman, S. (2000) The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management. The Academy of Management Review, 25 (1), p. 217.
Ucbasaran, D., Westhead, P. & Wright, M. (2001) The Focus of Entrepreneurial Research: Contextual and Process Issues. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 25, p. 57.
Hope that helps
Hi Sneah. Entrepreneurship is conceptualized somewhat differently in different disciplines and traditions. The answer to your question may depend on what you mean by entrepreneurship, because I am a bit puzzled by your observation that it evolved 25 years back . David Mackrory provides some very good reading suggestions if you are interested in the evolution of entrepreneurship research. In addition to this, you can find nice and extensive overviews of entrepreneurship research - starting from early thinking back in the medieval ages up until today - in Landström (2010). It may also be of interest to have a look at Landström & Lohrke (2010) or Landström & Lohrke (2012).
If you are interested in the evolution of entrepreneurship (not evolution of research on entrepreneurship) you may find interesting stuff in Shane (2007). This book is more about dismantling the myths of entrepreneurship that prevail in public and policy debates, and it is biased towards the US context, but it provides data about changes in entrepreneurship over time and the incidence of entrepreneurship in different occupations and industries (in the US), and it cites a lot of research, and thus on the whole it is an interesting read.
References:
Landström, H. (2010) Pioneers in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research, New York: Springer.
Landström, H. & Lohrke, F. (eds.) (2010) Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Landström, H. & Lohrke, F. (eds.) (2012) Intellectual Roots of Entrepreneurship Research, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Shane, S. (2007) The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors and Policy Makers Live By, New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
If you are interested in data on entrepreneurial activity in many countries, I would recomment to check out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) homepage: http://www.gemconsortium.org/
There you can find Global Reports, some special issues like women entreprenurship and links to national reports of the GEM national teams.
Many definition about entreprenurship exit our scholar cicle,there are many concstt compenents can be fond to be consist to it ,for example foreactive,venture,reback thinking ,all these elements describe the personality of entreprenurship,but theose other perspection to describe it is seldom,so which leave a big empty of study can be to reseach for any love it !
If you are also interested in the concept of social entreprenuership, you can see, for example:
Bornstein D, Davis S (2010) Social entrepreneurship. What everyone needs to know. Oxford University
Press, Oxford
Harding R (2004) Social enterprise: the new economic engine. Bus Strateg Rev 14(4):39–43
Mair J, Martı´ I (2006) Social entrepreneurship research: a source of explanation, prediction, and delight.
J World Bus 41(1):36–44
Massetti BL (2008) The social entrepreneurship matrix as a ‘‘Tipping Point’’ for economic change.
Emerg: Complex Organ 10(3):1–8
Mort G, Weerawardena J, Carnegie K (2003) Social entrepreneurship: towards conceptualization. Int J
Non-profit Volunt Sect Mark 8(1):76–88
Nicholls A (2010) The legitimacy of social entrepreneurship. Reflexive isomorphism in a preparadigmatic
field. Entrepreneurship Theory Pract 34(4):611–633
Peredo AM, McLean M (2006) Social entrepreneurship: a critical review of the concept. J World Bus
41(1):56–65
Zahra SA, Gedajlovic E, Neubaum DO, Shulman JM (2009) A typology of social entrepreneurs: motives,
search processes and ethical challenges. J Bus Ventur 24(5):519–532
hey thanks Lorenzo.... actually presently i am working on social entrepreneurship which is quiet interesting topic but in Indian prospect i haven't much impressed so i was searching for more information.
I am also confused with "the 25 years back evolution of entrepreneurship". As pointed out above, entrepreneurs have been around for ages. If you are referring to a evolution of academic literature, the entrepreneurship has been investigated for more than 50 years.
From a more theoretical point of view:
Josef Schumpeter (1949): Capitalism, Socialism And Democracy
Kirzner (1978): Competition and Entrepreneurship
About data (I am not sure what you are looking for) on entrepreneurial activity, there are plenty of empirical articles in the field of Development Economics.
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