Questions the position presented by Gartner with respect tothe definitions of "entrepreneur" and "small business owner. "Gartner's work was in response to the work of Carland, Hoy, Boulton and Carland (1984). Gartner has two primary contentions with the work of Carland et al. First, he suggests...

Much research about entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial ventures may be misleading in its conclusions because of failure to distinguish entrepreneurs from small business owners and managers (although there is some overlap between them). This analysis exxtends Schumpeter's theory...