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Please send correspondence to: Frank Lasch, tel.: (+33) (0)4-67-10-28-18; fax: (+33) (0)4-67-45-13-56; e-mail: f.lasch@supco-montpellier.fr.

(1.) Torres considers the following world regions: Occidental, Oriental, and African. For a review of French research on SME and entrepreneurship (doctoral research, networks, institutions, etc.), refer to Torres (2007) and Kizaba and Betourne (2007).

(2.) French International Association of Strategic Management.

(3.) International Francophone Conference on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Studies.

(4.) It is worthwhile to note that the first "E" in the acronym meant initially "Study" (Etude) and only since 2000 refers to "Entrepreneurship."

(5.) From a total of 148 articles in this period, 19 were classified as contributions to entrepreneurship.

(6.) NB: RIPME is a Francophone journal based in Canada but represents an important outlet for publication of French (or France-based) scholars.

(7.) "New venture creation: A contribution to epistemology and modeling the phenomenon" (translation by the authors).

(8.) Seventeen PhDs of the Paturel 2000-2005 sample are common with the Torres PhD list. Paturel (2004) identified five additional PhDs. Thus, the total number of PhDs in entrepreneurship is 55 for the 1985-2005 period.

(9.) The author completed a first research on doctoral research for the years 1996 and 1997 with a recent analysis for the 2000-2005 period.

(10.) For a definition of "French scholar," see methods section.

(11.) Scholars employed by public universities in management science in 2004:385 professeurs and 1,185 maitres de conferences (Durand, 2005; estimation based upon government sources). These numbers do not include other contributors as research assistants, PhD candidates, or researchers in French business schools.

(12.) NB: Journal publications of scholars affiliated at the time of acceptation/publication in a French university or business school.

(13.) Sample: publications in journals listed by the Social Sciences Citation Index.

(14.) And other public research institutions like the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). NB: Grandes Ecoles de Commerce, quoted as "business schools," in this article, are in general part of the Chamber of Commerce in their location; they are not hosted in or are part of public universities.

Frank Lasch is associate professor at GSCM-Montpellier Business School, France (Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier, France).

Said Yami is an associate professor at the University of Montpellier I, ERFI/ISEM.

For my father Gerhard Lasch and for Leo Lasch-Jean-Philippe. The authors wish to thank the two anonymous French reviewers and the following colleagues for their helpful suggestions and propositions: Frederic Le Roy, Michel Marchesnay (both University of Montpellier I), Olivier Torres (University of Montpellier III), and Paul D. Reynolds for his comments on the paper at the European IECER conference in Regensburg (Germany) 2006. We would also like to thank Gael Betrand for his assistance in collecting and classifying the articles and conference papers reviewed in this article. Table 1 French and Francophone Entrepreneurship Journals and Conferences

Frequency until Name December 31, 2005 ([dagger]) Journals

Revue Internationale PME 18 volumes, 3-4 numbers per

since 1988 annum, 68 in total

Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat 4 volumes, 1 number per annum,

since 2001 4 in total Conferences

Conference Internationale Bi-annual: seven conferences

Francophone en

entrepreneuriat et PME Carthage (1993), Paris (1995),

(CIFEPME) since 1993 Quebec/Trois-Rivieres (1996),

Metz (1998), Lille (2000),

Montreal (2002), Montpellier

(2004)

Academie de l'Entrepreneuriat Irregular: four meetings

(AE) since 1999 Lille (1999), Bordeaux (2002),

Lyon (2004), Paris (2005). ([dagger]) See the websites of the AE and CIFEPME conferences for the 2006 and 2007 conferences in the Appendix part. Table 2 Articles and Papers Considered for Our Study