Exhibit I-1: Three Systematic Categorizations to Help Understand Historical Entrepreneurship at the Individual and Organizational Levels

A personal and practical hierarchy

1) Entrepreneurship as a personal predisposition/intention

2) Entrepreneurship as a behavior pattern or role

3) Entrepreneurship as organized consequences (an effect on society, systems and organizations)

A theoretical hierarchy

1) Entrepreneurship as a concept

2) Entrepreneurship as a theoretical construct

3) Entrepreneurship as an interrelated variable (independent, dependent, moderating, intervening)

A unit of analysis hierarchy

1) Individual entrepreneurship as a personal event

2) Organization entrepreneurship as a collective event

3) Societal/Global entrepreneurship as a macro-system event

 

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