?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Nascent+entrepreneur(ship)+research+%3A+a+review&rft.creator=Davidsson%2C+Per&rft.creator=Gordon%2C+Scott+R.&rft.subject=150304+Entrepreneurship&rft.subject=150314+Small+Business+Management&rft.subject=150307+Innovation+and+Technology+Management&rft.subject=Nascent+Entrepreneurship&rft.subject=CAUSEE&rft.subject=Comprehensive+Australian+Study+of+Entrepreneurial+Emergence&rft.subject=PSED&rft.subject=Panel+Study+of+Entrepreneurial+Dynamics&rft.subject=Review&rft.description=The+creation+of+new+firms+is+a+tremendously+important+phenomenon.+Each+year+hundreds+of+millions+of+people+are+engaged+in+business+start-up+efforts+(Reynolds+et+al.%2C+2005).+A+careful+review+of+87+analyses+in+57+recent+studies+confirms+earlier+claims+that+new+firms+play+very+significant+roles+in+employment+creation%2C+productivity+growth+and+innovations+(van+Praag+%26+Versloot%2C+2007).+Yet%2C+new+venture+creation+is+both+under+theorized+and+empirically+under+studied.+Due+to+its+emergent%2C+elusive+and+nebulous+nature+and+the+fact+that+firms+not+yet+in+existence+do+not+appear+in+any+sampling+frames%2C+researchers+have+largely+been+confined+to+exploring+the+phenomenon+of+new+venture+creation+via+survivor-biased+samples+and+retrospective+case+studies.+These+conditions+are+obvious+impediments+to+credible%2C+scholarly+knowledge+development.+This+is+why+the+occurrence+of+an+approach+to+the+systematic%2C+longitudinal+study+of+representative+samples+of+on-going+new+venture+start-up+processes+is+potentially+an+important+breakthrough.+%0D%0AThe+Panel+Study+of+Entrepreneurial+Dynamics+(PSED)+(Gartner%2C+Shaver%2C+Carter+%26+Reynolds%2C+2004b%3B+Reynolds%2C+2007)+was+the+first+full+scale+realization+of+such+a+study.+It+has+established+a+new+empirical+approach+that+%E2%80%93+with+local+variations+%E2%80%93+has+been+employed+by+several+large+scale+parallel+or+subsequent+studies+in+a+range+of+countries+including+Australia%2C+Canada%2C+Latvia%2C+the+Netherlands%2C+Norway%2C+Sweden%2C+and+the+US.%0D%0AThe+basic+design+of+the+research+can+be+summarized+as+follows+(Reynolds%2C+in+press)%3A+(an+approximation+of)+a+probability+sample+of+on-going%2C+early-stage+business+start-ups+is+obtained+through+screening+phone+interviews+with+a+very+large+number+(typically+tens+of+thousands)+of+adult+members+of+households%2C+selected+through+random+digit+dialing.+Answers+to+a+screening+questionnaire+determine+whether+respondents+are+%E2%80%98nascent+entrepreneurs%E2%80%99+(NE)+or+not%3B+i.e.%2C+whether+they+are+involved+in+on-going+but+not+yet+operational+business+start-up+efforts+in+which+they+are+going+to+be+(part)+owners.+Qualified+NEs+%E2%80%93+typically+a+single+digit+percentage+%E2%80%93+are+directed+to+a+comprehensive+(20-60+minutes)+interview+about+select+aspects+of+the+emerging+venture%2C+its+owners%2C+and+their+actions.+Eligible+cases+are+re-interviewed+at+regular+intervals%3B+typically+every+6-12+months+over+2+to+5+years+in+order+to+follow+the+process+and+assess+outcomes.%0D%0ADue+to+their+comprehensiveness+(often+comprising+several+hundred+variables+and+multiple+waves+of+data)+it+is+not+really+possible+within+the+space+given+here+to+provide+an+adequate+description+of+contents+and+theoretical+underpinnings+of+the+studies.+Although+tables+2-4+(below)+summarize+some+such+information+readers+are+referred+to+the+PSED+and+PSED+II+handbooks+and+website%2C+which+provide+comprehensive+information+of+this+kind+for+the+publicly+available+US+data+sets+(Gartner+et+al.%2C+2004b%3B+Reynolds+%26+Curtin%2C+2009%3B+www.psed.isr.umich.edu).%0D%0AThe+purpose+of+this+review+is+twofold.+First%2C+we+aim+to+assess+what+has+been+learnt+so+far+on+substantive+matters+from+the+published+research+using+this+type+of+empirical+data.+In+this%2C+we+will+focus+on+micro+level+issues+where+this+line+of+research+has+made+unique+contributions+and+largely+leave+aside+the+macro+issue+of+relative+prevalence+of+NEs+across+time+and+space%2C+which+is+equally+or+better+dealt+with+through+the+Global+Entrepreneurship+Monitor+(GEM)+research+(Bosma+%26+Harding%2C+2007%3B+Reynolds+et+al.%2C+2005).+Second%2C+based+on+the+strengths+and+weaknesses+revealed+by+the+research+undertaken+we+aim+to+develop+a+set+of+suggestions+regarding+how+the+approach+can+be+further+developed+and+refined+to+make+a+greater+contribution+in+the+future.&rft.date=2009-04-13&rft.type=Working+Paper&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2F2.zoppoz.workers.dev%3A443%2Fhttps%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F19622%2F1%2Fc19622.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.relation=Davidsson%2C+Per+%26+Gordon%2C+Scott+R.+(2009)+Nascent+entrepreneur(ship)+research+%3A+a+review.+%5BOther%5D+(Submitted+(not+yet+accepted+for+publication))&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2F2.zoppoz.workers.dev%3A443%2Fhttps%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F19622%2F&rft.rights=Copyright+2009+%5Bplease+consult+the+authors%5D&rft.identifier=Australian+Centre+for+Entrepreneurship+Research%3B+QUT+Business+School