对我研究生涯和组织与创业领域作品的反思

Reflections on My Lifetime of Research and Writing on Organizations and Entrepreneurship

在这篇文章中,我将描述我从社会学研究生到小企业研究人员,最后成为一名创业学者的50年历程。在密歇根大学,我学习了社会学研究的技巧,然后在康奈尔大学时开始进行组织研究。我的早期研究被归类为“小企业”研究,但当组织和管理学者对新企业和商业创造变得更感兴趣时,我又被归作了“创业研究员”。我将通过描述我在20世纪80年代和90年代的研究项目来解释这种转变是如何发生的。在过去的几十年间,我将演化思维应用于创业问题中,并鼓励使用面板设计进行研究以捕捉企业和行业随时间变化的情况。我将给年轻学者们提供一些关于如何进行创业研究的建议,并通过突出我目前对匠人和创客空间的研究作出总结。在新兴的全球创客运动中,我看到了巨大的创业前景。

In this essay,I describe my five-decade-long journey from a sociology graduate student to small business researcher to,finally,a scholar of entrepreneurship.At the University of Michigan,I learned the craft of sociological research and then began practicing organizational research at Cornell University.My early studies were classified as research on "small businesses",but when organization and management scholars became more interested in new ventures and business creation,I was labelled an "entrepreneurship researcher".I explain how that transformation occurred by describing my research projects in the 1980s and 1990s.Over the past few decades,I have applied evolutionary thinking to entrepreneurial issues and encouraged research using panel designs to capture changes over time in businesses and industries.I offer some suggestions to junior scholars for how they can conduct research on entrepreneurship and conclude by highlighting my current research on craft workers and maker spaces.I see great entrepreneurial promise in the emerging global maker movement.