Entrepreneurial education as a scientific field can be regarded as an emerging and growing area of research. In this study we pay particular attention to the community of scholars involved in entrepreneurial education. The aim of the paper is to explore how scholars within the field have integrated into larger scholarly communities. Based on a unique database and web-based responses from 313 entrepreneurial education scholars, we demonstrate that scholars within the field exhibit great variety in their scientific outlooks and appreciation of communication systems. However, we find that the field consists of four scholarly communities characterized by a specific combination of scholarly inspirations, favorite meeting places, and publication channels, of which three clusters are anchored in the field of entrepreneurship, and only one cluster shows a strong entrepreneurial education research identity. Finally, the results indicate a low consolidation across the scholarly communities, which highlights the need for reflections on how the field can achieve increased integration and cohesion in the future.

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创业教育作为科学领域的社会结构

创业教育作为一个科学领域，可以被视为一个新兴且不断发展的研究领域。在这项研究中，我们特别关注参与创业教育的学者群体。本文的目的是探索该领域的学者如何融入更大的学术社区。基于一个独特的数据库和来自 313 位创业教育学者的基于网络的回复，我们证明该领域的学者在他们的科学观点和对通信系统的欣赏方面表现出很大的差异。然而，我们发现该领域由四个学术社区组成，其特点是学术灵感、最喜欢的聚会场所和出版渠道的特定组合，其中三个集群锚定在创业领域，只有一个集群显示出强烈的创业教育研究身份。最后，结果表明整个学术社区的整合度较低，这突出了反思该领域如何在未来实现更高的整合和凝聚力的必要性。