Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact



Van Burg, Elco, Cornelissen, Joep ORCID: 0000-0003-2500-3876, Stam, Wouter and Jack, Sarah
(2022) Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact. ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, 46 (1). pp. 3-20.

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Abstract

<jats:p> 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. </jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: editorial, qualitative research, ethnography, video-based, process, theory-building, mechanisms
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 Aug 2021 13:28
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 21:33
DOI: 10.1177/1042258720943051
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720943051
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3133029