Classics in entrepreneurship research (Gupta et al. 2016) - Weekend Classics

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:15:40Hindi Podcast Start at 00:30:27Danish Podcast Start at 00:44:47ReferenceGupta VK, Dutta DK, Guo G, Javadian G, Jiang C, Osorio AE, Ozkazanc-Pan B (2016), "Classics in entrepreneurship research: Enduring insights, future promises". New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Vol. 19 No. 1 pp. 7–23, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/NEJE-19-01-2016-B001Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherConnect on linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit—and this is Weekend Classics.There are weekends when the world asks for noise: notifications, opinion, velocity. And then there are weekends when you find something quieter, older, almost stubborn in its refusal to vanish—an idea that’s been sitting on the shelf for decades, still glowing like it never agreed to go out. That’s what Weekend Classics is for: the papers that didn’t just get published… they got embedded. 📚✨Today we’re stepping into the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship—an ABDC-C indexed journal—with a 2016 editorial that behaves like a time machine wearing a scholar’s suit: “Classics in entrepreneurship research: Enduring insights, future promises.” Published March 1, 2016 (Volume 19, Issue 1), via DigitalCommons©SHU, 2016 and EMERALD Publications. 🕰️🧠And what are they doing in this piece? They’re doing something beautifully human: they’re asking experts—members of the journal’s editorial board—to point at the work that made the field. Not the trendy. Not the loud. The foundational. The kind of articles from the 1970s and 1980s that helped entrepreneurship research graduate from a niche fascination into a serious academic discipline—built into business schools, journals, and the way we talk about new venture creation. 🏗️🚀Seven classics rise up from that era like old streetlights still illuminating new streets: entrepreneurial personality, city ecosystems, firm-level orientation, gender dynamics—ideas that keep reappearing in modern research under new names, new methods, new datasets… but the same beating questions. And what’s thrilling is that this editorial doesn’t just admire the past; it treats each classic like a launchpad, pointing straight at research opportunities still waiting to be claimed. 🔍➡️🔥So before you chase the next “gap,” before you sprint toward the next theoretical novelty—what if the future of entrepreneurship research is hiding, in plain sight, inside the work we’ve stopped rereading? 🤔⚡🎧 If you’re loving Weekend Classics, hit subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and follow us on YouTube at Weekend Researcher! Also available on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast—so you can take the classics anywhere. 📌🎙️📺And heartfelt thanks to the authors—Vishal K. Gupta, Dev K. Dutta, Grace Guo, Golshan Javadian, Crystal Jiang, Arturo E. Osorio, and Banu Ozkazanc-Pan—for the article that reminded us: sometimes the most radical move is to look back with better eyes. 🙏📖Now tell me—if you had to choose one “classic” that still defines entrepreneurship today, which paper would you rescue from the archives… and why? 🗝️📚❓