Editorial: Enhancing quantitative theory-testing entrepreneurship research

By B. S. Anderson, Karl J. Wennberg, Jeffery S. McMullen. Journal of Business Venturing, 2019

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The purpose of this editorial is to discuss methodological advancements to enhance quantitative theory-testing entrepreneurship research. As the impact of entrepreneurship scholarship accelerates and deepens, our methods must keep pace to continue shaping theory, policy, and practice. Like our sister fields in business, entrepreneurship is coming to terms with the replication and credibility crisis in the social sciences, forcing the field to revisit commonly-held assumptions that limit the promise and prospect of our scholarship. Thus, we provide suggestions for reviewers and editors to identify concerns in empirical work, and to guide authors in improving their analyses and research designs. We hope that our editorial provides useful and actionable guidance for entrepreneurship researchers submitting theory-testing papers to Journal of Business Venturing.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Editorial Essay: The Tumult over Transparency: Decoupling Transparency from Replication in Establishing Trustworthy Qualitative Research* (2019, unknown): “Thus ‘‘reproducibility is at the heart of the scientific enterprise’’ (Miller and Bamberger, 2016: 313); replicability is ‘‘the hallmark for establishing scientific truth’’ (Anderson, Wennberg, and McMullen, 2019); and ‘‘a key goal is to produce replicable and cumulative knowledge. . . .”
• Entrepreneurial passion diversity in new venture teams: An empirical examination of short- and long-term performance implications (2020, result): “Moreover, we encourage future replication attempts of our study with larger samples to allow for bigger effect sizes that may confirm our findings (Anderson et al., 2019) A second limitation is that while we did collect performance data at two points in time, we cannot draw strong inferences about t”
• Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being (2021, background): “…can help implement solutions to address entrepreneurial ill- being through co- creating recovery interventions with entrepreneurs and leveraging experimental designs to conduct practically and scientifically impactful research (Anderson et al., 2019; Stevenson et al., 2020; Williams et al., 2019).”
• Enhancing Rigor in Quantitative Entrepreneurship Research (2019, methodology): “…we seek to complement prior reviews of quantitative research methods published in ETP (e.g., Chandler & Lyon, 2001; Connelly et al., 2010; Dean et al., 2007) and more focused recent discussions in other leading entrepreneurship journals (e.g., Anderson et al., 2019; Wennberg & Anderson, 2019).”
• A Growth Mindset Intervention: Enhancing Students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Career Development (2020, unknown): “It is widely acknowledged that OSF pre-registration is consistent with best practices in the literature to increase transparency in research and decrease questionable research practices (QRPs) (Anderson et al., 2019; Banks et al., 2016; Yamada, 2018).”