Entrepreneurial Mobility

31 Pages Posted: 5 Feb 2011

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Mike Wright

Nottingham University Business School

Date Written: February 3, 2011

Abstract

While there is extensive work on labor mobility, research on entrepreneurial mobility is fragmented and many aspects are largely neglected. Building upon the strategic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial behavior theory, resource-based theory and other literatures, a framework for analysis of entrepreneurial mobility is developed which distinguishes between high and low geographical mobility and high and low organizational mobility. Within each quadrant we discuss different types of entrepreneurial mobility, specifically habitual entrepreneurs, management buyouts, university spin-offs, returnee entrepreneurs and transnational entrepreneurs. Issues concerning the development of research programs and methods, with particular emphasis on datasets, are discussed.

Keywords: entrepreneurial mobility

Suggested Citation

Wright, Mike, Entrepreneurial Mobility (February 3, 2011). Nottingham University Business School Research Paper No. 2011-01, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1754380 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1754380

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