Document Type
From the Guest Editors
Abstract
When management guru Peter Drucker wrote about entrepreneurship in 1984 (Drucker, 1984), entrepreneurial activities were primarily perceived as an American phenomenon. Today, entrepreneurship has spurred globally, from developed countries to emerging economies, thanks to accelerated globalization, integration of people and cultures, and rapid technological innovation. While Drucker’s focus on entrepreneurial decisions in the late 1980s was mainly about established corporations, millions of empowered individual entrepreneurs are increasingly recognized as the backbone of the global economy (Khanna, 2007). Thomas Friedman once described this stage of globalization as globalization 4.0, which features empowered entrepreneurial individuals (Friedman, 2005). New technology, especially information and communication technology, enables new business creation every day around the world (World Bank, 2022). In today’s global economy, entrepreneurs have an opportunity to interact with the global world more than ever before. Even if the target marrket is local, competition could come from anywhere in the world (Dawar and Frost, 1999).
DOI
10.1108/NEJE-07-2022-064
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Li, Jun; Demirkan, Irem; Lee, Younggeun; and Cortés, Andrés Felipe
(2022)
"Guest Editorial : New Trends in Entrepreneurship: A Global Context,"
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship: Vol. 25:
No.
1, Article 1.
DOI: 10.1108/NEJE-07-2022-064
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/neje/vol25/iss1/1
