Inflation and Self-correction in Entrepreneurship Science

Conference Paper
Academy of Management Proceedings 2016(1), 16443
Authors

Hannes W. Lampe

Jan Reerink

Christoph Ihl

Published

August 3, 2016

Doi

10.5465/ambpp.2016.16443abstract

Abstract
We studied the conflict between two mechanisms influencing impact of scientific articles using an extensive dataset derived by methodological innovations of proven methods. This study covers contributions published in journals, indexed by the web of science database resulting in 15,598 individual articles. Making use of document co-citation analysis, we identify 35 major research streams of entrepreneurship science. The four most important research streams are (1) International entrepreneurship, (2) University-industry relations and entrepreneurship, (3) Venture capital policies and financing, and (4) Macroeconomic/global and regional impact of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, regression results show that the popularity of a research stream may attract undue attention from researchers via an inflationary effect. Furthermore, a research stream’s diversity represents a self correction mechanism in that it decreases expected publication impact. However, the inflationary effect seems to outweigh the self correction effect necessitating a strong research framework as a policy tool.

Research

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  • Conference Paper
  • 2016
  • Vol. 2016(1)
  • DOI

Authors

Hannes W. Lampe, Jan Reerink, Christoph Ihl

Abstract

We studied the conflict between two mechanisms influencing impact of scientific articles using an extensive dataset derived by methodological innovations of proven methods. This study covers contributions published in journals, indexed by the web of science database resulting in 15,598 individual articles. Making use of document co-citation analysis, we identify 35 major research streams of entrepreneurship science. The four most important research streams are (1) International entrepreneurship, (2) University-industry relations and entrepreneurship, (3) Venture capital policies and financing, and (4) Macroeconomic/global and regional impact of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, regression results show that the popularity of a research stream may attract undue attention from researchers via an inflationary effect. Furthermore, a research stream’s diversity represents a self correction mechanism in that it decreases expected publication impact. However, the inflationary effect seems to outweigh the self correction effect necessitating a strong research framework as a policy tool.

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