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 achivement of full maturity and marginal legitimacy is given based on benchmarks in the development of the field....

What a delight it is to have this "essay" invited to appear in this edition of the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM). Most of the research papers included in this issue were written by several of the courageous pioneers of the once incipient academic field of entrepreneurship. In...

Small business and entrepreneurship scholars have made significant progress toward advancing the field and gaining recognition as an important domain of scientific inquiry. However, the authors suggest that a strong methodological foundation built on state-of-the-art research technologies is...