ABSTRACT
This chapter synthesizes some of the progress to date as a way to introduce some ideas about to how to continue the process of contextualizing entrepreneurship research and theory. Among entrepreneurship scholars, the context debate gathered momentum in the early part of this century. Studies on portfolio entrepreneurship, farm and micro-businesses in rural areas have long argued for a household perspective on entrepreneurship because households offer opportunities, resources and emotional support but can simultaneously be a barrier for entrepreneurs. In part because large-scale datasets like the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor have facilitated access to measured institutional dimensions and have fostered cross-country comparisons, another popular research stream continues to examine the impact of institutional context on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship research has long attended to some unique circumstances outside of modern capitalist economies, looking at, for example, emerging market economies in former post-Soviet countries and other parts of the world, frequently focusing on particular subsets of entrepreneurs, for example, women.
