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TY - JOUR
T1 - Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research
T2 - Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact
AU - van Burg, Elco
AU - Cornelissen, Joep
AU - Stam, Wouter
AU - Jack, Sarah
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - This editorial aims to advance the use of qualitative research methods when studying entrepreneurship. First, it outlines four characteristics of the domain of entrepreneurship that qualitative research is uniquely placed to address. In studying these characteristics, we urge researchers to leverage the plurality of different qualitative approaches, including less conventional methods. Second, to help researchers develop high-level theoretical contributions, we point to multiple possible contributions, and highlight how such contributions can be developed through qualitative methods. Thus, we aim to broaden the types of contributions and forms that qualitative entrepreneurship research takes, in ways that move beyond prototypical inductive theory-building.
AB - This editorial aims to advance the use of qualitative research methods when studying entrepreneurship. First, it outlines four characteristics of the domain of entrepreneurship that qualitative research is uniquely placed to address. In studying these characteristics, we urge researchers to leverage the plurality of different qualitative approaches, including less conventional methods. Second, to help researchers develop high-level theoretical contributions, we point to multiple possible contributions, and highlight how such contributions can be developed through qualitative methods. Thus, we aim to broaden the types of contributions and forms that qualitative entrepreneurship research takes, in ways that move beyond prototypical inductive theory-building.
KW - editorial, qualitative research, theory-building, mechanisms, transparency, entrepreneurship
U2 - 10.1177/1042258720943051
DO - 10.1177/1042258720943051
M3 - Editorial
VL - 46
SP - 3
EP - 20
JO - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
JF - Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
SN - 1042-2587
IS - 1
ER -