A review of research methods in entrepreneurship 1985-2013
By Seonaidh McDonald, Bee Ching Gan, Simon S. Fraser, A. Oke, Alistair R. Anderson. 2015
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the research questions: which methodologies and data gathering methods are employed by researchers publishing in top entrepreneurship journals, and how has this changed over time? Design/methodology/approach – The data gathering methods of research published in five top entrepreneurship journals between 1985 and 2013, a period of nearly three decades, were recorded. Findings – The data demonstrate that entrepreneurship research is dominated by positivist approaches and data gathering methods, but that this picture is changing over time. The data also reveal differences in methods used in research published in North American and European journals. Research limitations/implications – It is argued that increased discussion of the limitations, benefits and implications of research methods is needed across the field as a whole. It is concluded that although there is some methodological reflexivity in the field of a macro, abstract nature, there is little at the...
Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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Citations in the corpus
- The entrepreneurship research in hospitality and tourism (2019, methodology): “pendent variables (Wang and Jessup, 2014), research methods (Anderson and Starnawska, 2008; Bygrave, 1989; Coviello and Jones, 2004; McDonald et al., 2015; McElwee and Atherton, 2005), nature of community (Gartner et al.”
- Understanding, differentiating, and measuring opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation (2017, unknown): “Recent works on research design, scale development, and measurement practice in entrepreneurship (Slavec and Drnovsek, 2012; McDonald et al., 2015) show that such issues are not limited to the research on opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation; nevertheless, such central concepts shoul”
- Women entrepreneurship: research review and future directions (2016, unknown): “McDonald et al. (2015) reviewed the research methods used in entrepreneurship from the year 1985 to 2013 and identified six top entrepreneurship journals.”