Beschreibung:
Entrepreneurship is a phenomenon of tremendous societal importance. It is also an elusive phenomenon, which makes researching it fun, fascinating-and frustrating at times. In Researching Entrepreneurship one of the most highly recognized entrepreneurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can or should be researched. Numerous real examples accompany the treatment of problems and solutions concerning design, sampling, operationalization and analysis. Suggestions for further improvements are also provided.
Entrepreneurship is a process that takes organizations and economic activities from non-existence into existence. This unique feature of the phenomenon creates intriguing and interesting method challenges
What is Entrepreneurship?.- Entrepreneurship as Research Domain.- This Thing Called "Theory".- General Design Issues.- Sampling Issues.- Operationalization Issues.- Special Topic: Preparing a "Secondary" Data Set.- Special Topic: Job Creation as the Dependent Variable.- Special Topic: The Power of Replication.- A Quick Look at Analysis Method.