International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 1/2005 [antikvár]

Linking Entrepreneurship and Management: Welcome to the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal DÁVID B. AUDRETSCH Indiaim University GARY J. CASTROGIOVANNI University of Tulsa DOMINGO RIBEIRO SALVADOR ROIG University of Valencia, Spain It is widely recognized that the success and vitality of entrepreneurship are essential factors in measuring an economy's progress, its quality and its future expectations. Entrepreneurship is closely related to SMEs and large companies in local, régiónál, national or international markets, in priváté and public organizations and helps lead to competitiveness in the face of the effects of globalization. Entrepreneurial activities are important in creating new economic activity which in turn increases innovation, employment, economic wealth and growth, consolidates competitiveness in advanced economies and assures social welfare in less economically developed countries. A developing field 'Who' is an entrepreneur and 'what' constitutes entrepreneurship are subject to a hot debate that has been ongoing since the time the concept first appeared in Cantillon's (1755) Essai sur la nature du commerce en generál. Nevertheless, research in entrepreneurship has increased rapidly in recent decades. "Since the first known American entrepreneurship course was taught at Harvard University by Myles Mace in 1947" (Brush, Duhaime, Gartner, Stewart, Katz, Hitt, Alvarez, Meyer and Venkataraman, 2003: 310), outstanding work marking the starting point of the field of entrepreneurship includes, Harvard Studies in Business History and the Journal of Business and Economic History, along with Explorations in Entrepreneurial History. All this culminated in 1958 with the creation of the Harvard Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, with Arthur H. Colé as director. Other events which marked the growing importance of the entrepreneurship field were (a) the first conference at the University of Colorado in 1956, organized by the National Council for Small Business (predecessor of the