Introduction

Volume 21 starts both the second score of volumes in Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth as well as the second 25-year generation of the series. In addition, this volume is also the closing bookend of our two-volume celebration of the series and its contributions. As we noted in the Introduction to Volume 20, we identified the six most cited chapters from the series and published the first three in that volume, titled Key Papers of the First Twenty-Five Years of Advances.

This volume carries the title Seminal Ideas for the Next Twenty-Five Years of Advances and represents three ideas that have garnered so much attention that they remain important to and influential in the field of entrepreneurship. These three most-cited chapters in the history of the Advances series are (in order of citation frequency):