连环创业研究述评与未来展望

A Literature Review and Prospects on Serial Entrepreneurship

连环创业是指创业者接连创办多家企业的过程,但任一时点,连环创业者的注意力通常集中在一家企业的创办与运营。连环创业者在提高创业企业生存能力、创造就业、促进经济与社会发展等方面表现优异,创业研究应给予更多关注。通过对过往文献的编码与提炼,本文系统归纳了已有连环创业研究的核心主题,从连环创业者的特征,连环创业意向的形成,连环创业机会的识别、评估和开发,连环创业者的融资策略以及连环创业绩效五个方面梳理了连环创业研究的主要规律和结论。在此基础上,归纳提炼出了连环创业的三大特征:连环创业者的独特性、连环创业活动的连续性及连环创业情境的适配性,并据此提出了未来研究的六个方向。本文为连环创业研究提供了系统、深入的研究框架和思路。

Serial entrepreneurship refers to the process in which entrepreneurs establish several enterprises one after another.However,at any given moment,the serial entrepreneurs usually focus on the establishment and operation of a single enterprise.As a unique type of entrepreneurial activity,serial entrepreneurship provides an important research scenario in which scholars could explore the root of entrepreneurial success or failure among multiple entrepreneurial activities,the value of a certain entrepreneurial success or failure to subsequent entrepreneurial activities,and how entrepreneurship shapes entrepreneurs’cognition.Therefore,the study of serial entrepreneurship has great theoretical value and becomes an important direction in entrepreneurship research,because it fills the gap of previous studies which only focus on a certain entrepreneurial process.Foreign scholars have paid much attention to serial entrepreneurship,while domestic researches are relatively backward.Thus,it is urgent to form the research framework and future direction of serial entrepreneurship to promote its development.This paper draws on the idea of grounded theory,codes and refines the literature on serial entrepreneurship,and systematically summarizes the core themes and main conclusions of the existing research.Firstly,this paper systematically summarizes five core themes,including:the characteristics of serial entrepreneurs;the formation of serial entrepreneurial intention;the identification,evaluation and exploitation of serial opportunities;the financing strategies of serial entrepreneurs;and the performance of serial entrepreneurship.Secondly,based on coding results,this paper systematically reviews the literature of each theme and forms the research framework of each theme.Thirdly,based on the five core themes,this paper summarizes the characteristics of serial entrepreneurs from three aspects:the uniqueness of serial entrepreneurs,the continuity of serial entrepreneurial activities,and the adaptability of the serial entrepreneurial context.Finally,this paper proposes six directions for future study,including:explore the formation mechanism of serial entrepreneurial intention;explore the internal mechanism of opportunity recognition behavior of serial entrepreneurs;explore the resource scheduling,utilization and reorganization of serial entrepreneurs;explore the learning mechanism of serial entrepreneurship;explore the decision-making mechanism of serial entrepreneurs in uncertain situations;explore the uniqueness of serial entrepreneurs from the perspective of neuroentrepreneurship.This study deeply analyzes the characteristics,motivations and behavioral laws of serial entrepreneurship,scientifically summarizes the core themes of serial entrepreneurship,systematically constructs the research framework of serial entrepreneurship,and puts forward three characteristics of serial entrepreneurship and future research directions.This paper is of great significance for promoting the research of serial entrepreneurship.