Schumpeter’s (1934) Influence on Entrepreneurship (and Management) Research

Manuel Portugal Ferreira; Nuno Rosa Reis; Claudia Sofia Frias Pinto

doi:10.14211/regepe.v6i1.483

Authors

Manuel Portugal Ferreira manuel.portugal.ferreira@gmail.com
Uninove - Universidade Nove de Julho Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração, BRASIL & ESTG - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, PORTUGAL
Nuno Rosa Reis nuno.m.reis@ipleiria.pt
globADVANTAGE – Center of Research in International Business & Strategy ESTG - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria PORTUGAL
Claudia Sofia Frias Pinto claudia.frias.pinto@gmail.com
Doutorado em Administração de Empresas FGV/EAESP – Fundação Getúlio Vargas

DOI:

10.14211/regepe.v6i1.483

Keywords:

Entrepreneurship, bibliometric study, Schumpeter, co-citations, entrepreneurship research

Abstract

Entrepreneurship research has flourished since de 1980s, following the institutional development that created schools and courses, research centers and dedicated journals. This paper examines the impact of Joseph Schumpeter, one of the main “knowledge producers” whose concepts and ideas on the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and innovation have shaped the discipline and much of the research on entrepreneurship, and has influenced the thought on other areas of management. Methodologically, we conducted a bibliometric study of the articles published in 16 high stature international journals, over a period of 30 years, between 1981 and 2010. On a sample of 412 articles citing Schumpeter, we analyzed and mapped citations, co-citations and research themes. We further establish distinctions between entrepreneurship and management research. This study presents a manner to examine the influence of a scholar, and a set of conceptualizations he has introduced, on a discipline. Schumpeter has had an imprint in the multidisciplinarity and wealth of research themes that entrepreneurship scholars have delved upon but also in other management disciplines, where his perspectives on entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur and innovation have contributed to much of the research conducted to date. Although entrepreneurship has remained largely multidisciplinary and drawing from the main management theories there is a growing body of entrepreneurship-specific literature.

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Author Biographies

Manuel Portugal Ferreira, Uninove - Universidade Nove de Julho Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração, BRASIL & ESTG - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, PORTUGAL

Doutor em PhD Business Administration pela University of Utah - UTAH, (Estados Unidos). Professor de Estratégia no Programa de Pós Graduação e Administração - PPGAA na Universidade Nove de Julho - Uninove, São Paulo, (Brasil). Professor de Estratégia, empreendedorismo e Negócios internacionais na Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Leiria - IPL, (Portugal).

Nuno Rosa Reis, globADVANTAGE – Center of Research in International Business & Strategy ESTG - Instituto Politécnico de Leiria PORTUGAL

Doutor em Gestão de Empresas pela Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, (Portugal). Professor de Empreendedorismo e Estratégia, Departamento de Gestão e Economia no Instituto Politécnico de Leiria - IPL, (Portugal).

Claudia Sofia Frias Pinto, Doutorado em Administração de Empresas FGV/EAESP – Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Doutoranda em Administração de Empresas pela Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV/EAESP, São Paulo, (Brasil).

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