"Thin" descriptions of entrepreneurial behavior and "thick" descriptions of entrepreneurial practice are untrustworthy, serving science poorly.("Thin descriptions" occur when few variables are used to predict theorized outcomes; "thick descriptions" refer to a multitude of events described in...

Our short Dialogue challenges a stream of thought that focuses on drawing what we see as a frivolous contrast between creation and discovery view of entrepreneurship. In the former, entrepreneurs create opportunities ex nihilo; in the latter they discover them as “luggage lost at a train...