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The development of entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary field of study parallels the development of leadership studies. In recent years a number of entrepreneurship researchers have begun to draw on leadership studies for inspiration. For some, the adoption of contingency approaches has been recommended as an alternative to the traditional trait-based approach. For others, more recent developments in transformational leadership studies, including a renewed emphasis on vision, have been advocated. This paper reviews the emergence in leadership research of themes relevant to an understanding of entrepreneurship and uses this to set the evolution of entrepreneurship education within the wider context of the changing focus of management education and development in general. The paper concludes that there are a number of respects in which a closer relationship between entrepreneurship research and leadership studies can be justified. Two in particular stand out: the increased importance being placed on team-based approaches in both fields; and changes in the nature and understanding of the business organization itself. Together, these provide the basis for a reconceptualization of the role and content of entrepreneurship education and development which establishes it as the basis for a renewed and refocused approach to management education and development as a whole.
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