ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship research is passing through a defining phase in its growth trajectory. Several challenges were accrued in its path to establishing its scholarly legitimacy over the past two decades. These are currently proving to be more of hindrances than enablers. As a result, the field is being assayed to (re-)prove its relevance, diversity, and contemporariness, as an originally practice-driven domain. This chapter introduces those impediments and proposes several avenues to help overcome them. It then moves to provide a preface to the 11 cases included in this book. These cases represent a broad spectrum of entrepreneurial examples, crossing geographical, sectorial, and cultural boundaries, and offer valuable theoretical and empirical insights to scholars and practitioners.
