ScholarOne - Boundary categories in early stage entrepreneurial action:
a systematic review and ontological analysis
Abstract
In this paper we problematise existing markers of entrepreneurial action
in the early venturing process as being subject to conditions through
the systematic review of sampling assumptions in empirical literature on
early venturing over the past 15 years (2008-2022). We inductively
develop four boundary categories, which issue from an analysis of
operationalisations of entrepreneurial action, sources of participants
and the epistemic positioning of the researchers and participants. Our
findings reveal that there is a predominance of attributing action
entrepreneurial status based on the following boundary categories: -
Intention-driven; - Predefined Activities; - Inferred from context; -
Retrospectively Constituted