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Fully Mature but Not Fully Legitimate: A Different Perspective on the State of Entrepreneurship Education

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This article seeks to demonstrate that the field of entrepreneurship/small business can be characterized as fully mature, a view contrasting one proposed by Kuratko. Evidence of the achievement of full maturity and marginal legitimacy is given based on benchmarks in the development of the field. In addition, this article adds additional support to the concept of partial legitimacy on which Katz and Kuratko agree. Building from these analyses, a theoretical life cycle model for the growth of disciplines in general is offered, using entrepreneurship as the example. The major consequence of entrepreneurship's full maturity is identified as the growing centrality of the business‐school based discipline of entrepreneurship in relation to the emerging entrepreneurship efforts across campuses, and the implication of this centrality for the discipline of entrepreneurship is discussed.

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  • Jerome A. Katz, 2008. "Fully Mature but Not Fully Legitimate: A Different Perspective on the State of Entrepreneurship Education," Journal of Small Business Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(4), pages 550-566, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:46:y:2008:i:4:p:550-566
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-627X.2008.00256.x
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    1. Juan-José Nájera-Sánchez & Cristina Pérez-Pérez & Thais González-Torres, 2023. "Exploring the knowledge structure of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 563-597, June.
    2. Harrison, Richard T., 2023. "W(h)ither entrepreneurship? Discipline, legitimacy and super-wicked problems on the road to nowhere," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 19(C).
    3. Gry Alsos & Gustav Hägg & Mats Lundqvist & Diamanto Politis & Martin Stockhaus & Karen Williams-Middleton & Kari Djupdal, 2023. "Graduates of venture creation programs – where do they apply their entrepreneurial competencies?," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 133-155, January.
    4. Slade Shantz, Angelique & Zietsma, Charlene & Kistruck, Geoffrey M. & Cruz, Luciano Barin, 2024. "Exploring the relative efficacy of ‘within-logic contrasting’ and ‘cross-logic analogizing’ framing tactics for adopting new entrepreneurial practices in contexts of poverty," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 39(1).
    5. Michela Loi & Alain Fayolle & Marco van Gelderen & Elen Riot & Deema Refai & David Higgins & Radi Haloub & Marcus Alexandre Yshikawa Salusse & Erwan Lamy & Caroline Verzat & Fabrice Cavarretta, 2022. "Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads: Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Opening New Perspectives," Post-Print hal-03983114, HAL.

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