Entrepreneurship has come into its own as an area to study. One only has to look at the legitimizing symbols of status in the field of organizations to see that this is true. Entrepreneurship has its own thriving division within the Academy of Management. It has its own journal. Chaired professorships of entrepreneurship are cropping up at the most prestigious business schools. Yet, despite this legitimacy, one of the recurring debates in the field centers on the definitional question, what exactly is entrepreneurship?
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