(A) Must read completely and carefully (B) Read for key points (C) Skim for background only

Class 2 – The Field of Entrepreneurship

• ✔ Podsakoff, P. M. and D. W. Organ (1986). “Self-reports in organizational research: Problems and prospects.” Journal of Management 12(4): 531-544. (C)
• ✔ Podsakoff, P. M., S. B. MacKenzie, et al. (2003). “Common method biases in behavioural research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.” Journal of Applied Psychology 88(5): 879-903. (C)
• ✔ Venkataraman, S. (1997). “The distinctive domain of entrepreneurship research.” Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth. 3: 119-138. (A)
• ✔ Shane, S. and S. Venkataraman (2000). “The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research.” Academy of Management Review 25(1): 217-226. (A)

Class 3 – Economics

• ✔ Gedeon, S. (2007). “A lexicon of entrepreneurship.” working paper, Ryerson University, Toronto. (B)
• ✔ Baumol, W. J. (1990). “Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive and destructive.” Journal of Political Economy 98(5): 893-921. (A)
• ✔ Kirzner, I. (1997). “Entrepreneurial discovery and the competitive market process: An Austrian approach.” Journal of Economic Literature 35(1): 60-85. (C)

Class 5 – Psychology and Bias

• ✔ Kahneman, D. and A. Tversky (1979). “Prospect theory: Analysis of decision under risk.” Econometrica 47(2): 263-291. (A)
• ✔ Baron, R. A. (1998). “Cognitive mechanisms in entrepreneurship: Why and when entrepreneurs think differently than other people.” Journal of Business Venturing 13(4): 275-294. (B)
• ✔ Ciavarella, M. A., A. K. Buchholtz, et al. (2004). “The big five and venture survival: Is there a linkage?” Journal of Business Venturing 19(4): 465-483. (B)

Class 6 – Where Opportunities Come From

• ✔ Shane, S. (2000). “Prior knowledge and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities.” Organization Science 11(4): 448-469. (A)
• ✔ Gaglio, C. M. and J. A. Katz (2001). “The psychological basis of opportunity identification: Entrepreneurial alertness.” Small Business Economics 16(2): 95-111. (C)
• ✔ Sarasvathy, S. (2001). “Causation and effectuation: Toward a theoretical shift from economic inevitability to entrepreneurial contingency.” Academy of Management Review 26(2): 243-263. (A)