Entrepreneurship research has accumulated a substantial body of foundational work over the past several decades. These seminal studies have shaped our understanding of entrepreneurial processes, behaviors, and outcomes. However, the field would benefit from systematic efforts to reexamine and replicate these foundational studies to assess their robustness, generalizability, and continued relevance.
This special issue invites submissions that directly engage with foundational entrepreneurship research through replication, reexamination, and extension. We seek studies that either directly replicate foundational work, conduct conceptual replications in new contexts, perform meta-analyses of key findings, or critically reexamine the theoretical foundations of influential entrepreneurship research.
Such work is crucial for establishing the credibility and reliability of our knowledge base, identifying boundary conditions for existing theories, and determining which foundational findings hold across diverse contexts and populations. This special issue aims to strengthen entrepreneurship research by promoting transparency, reproducibility, and critical evaluation of our most influential work.