Entrepreneurship in the Future: A Delphi Study of ETP and JBV Editorial Board Members

Marco van Gelderen*, Johan Wiklund, Jeffery S. McMullen

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Abstract

What will entrepreneurship look like in 2030? We conducted a Delphi panel study asking this question of editors and Editorial Review Board members of the two leading entrepreneurship journals, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice in an attempt to lift the eyes of the field to the horizon, outside academe, if only briefly. Using thematic coding analysis, we identified close to 1000 first-order codes from the 175 scholars surveyed, which we categorized into 24 distinct themes. From this input in the first round, we generated 93 predictions, which were assessed by the panel in terms of likelihood in a second round. It is our hope that these themes and predictions might serve to inspire our present research, teaching, and entrepreneurial endeavors, and spur debate and discussions among (future) entrepreneurship scholars of future-relevant phenomena that can potentially be studied under the rubric of entrepreneurship.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1239-1275
Number of pages37
JournalEntrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Volume45
Issue number5
Early online date8 May 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We like to acknowledge the 217 editors and editorial board members participating in the Delphi panel (see Appendix); Etienne Schraven, Danja Overgaag, Paul Jansen, and Roy Thurik for comments and input; and the 2019, 2020 and 2021 cohorts of the honours course ?The Future Entrepreneur? at VU University Amsterdam. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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© The Author(s) 2021.

Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Keywords

    • Delphi
    • future
    • research agenda

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