Entrepreneurship and Contextual Definitions of Mental Disorders: Why Psychiatry Abandoned the Latter and Entrepreneurship Scholars May Want to Follow Suit

Alejandro Agafonow · Marybel Pérez

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Original articles: Johan Wiklund, Isabella Hatak, Holger Patzelt, and Dean A. Shepherd, “Mental Disorders in the Entrepreneurship Context: When Being Different Can Be an Advantage,” https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2017.0063; Kevin M. Antshel, “Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Entrepreneurship,” https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2016.0144; Daniel A. Lerner, Richard A. Hunt, and Ingrid Verheul, “Dueling Banjos: Harmony and Discord Between ADHD and Entrepreneurship,” https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2016.0178; and Johan Wiklund, Wei Yu, and Holger Patzelt, “Impulsivity and Entrepreneurial Action,” https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2016.0177.Psychiatry as a medical science has debunked contextual definitions of disorders for a good reason. Thus, this Exchange article seeks to assist entrepreneurship scholars in assessing the risks of building scholarship upon a notion that has proven to be problematic.

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