Measuring Entrepreneurial Performance: Is There Consistency Between Scholars?

摘要

Accurate performance measurement is critical to investigate the new venture outcomes. The current research investigates performance measures utilized in 50 studies between 2002 and 2013 in the Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Little consistency was found across studies. More than 60% of these studies, growth has been considered and measured as one of the dimensions of performance and almost 50% of the studies in this research have used only one dimension of performance rather than multi dimensions. In this piece of work pros and cons of using different dimensions of performance are discussed and evaluated. Methodological recommendations are provided.