Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-18 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Funding
We thank Hans Berends, Issy Drori, Dries Faems, and Jakomijn van Wijk for their very helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article. We are also grateful to the Editor, Friederike Welter, and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which helped shape this editorial. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Jakomijn van Wijk |