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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