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  title info:
    title: Researching Entrepreneurship
    sub title: Conceptualization and Design
  name:
    name part: Davidsson, Per.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 300 p. 25 illus., 23 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: In this book, one of the most highly recognized entrepreneurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can be researched. 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 this fully updated edition, numerous real examples accompany the treatment of problems and solutions concerning design, sampling, operationalization and analysis. Researching Entrepreneurship is targeted primarily at research students and academics who are relatively new to research or to entrepreneurship research. This said, basic knowledge of research methods is assumed, and when foundational issues are discussed they are typically approach from a non-standard angle and/or with an eye to illuminate entrepreneurship-specific problems and solutions. This makes large parts of the contents potentially valuable for entrepreneurship scholars at any level of research proficiency. The book is also of interest to sophisticated, non-academic users with a professional interest in collecting and analyzing data from emerging and young ventures, and to those who make use of published entrepreneurship research. For example, analysts in marketing research or consultancy firms, business associations, statistical agencies and other government offices may find this book to be a valuable tool. Moreover, while the examples are derived from entrepreneurship research, the book provides a unique "experienced empirical researcher" (rather than "textbook method expert") treatment of issues that are of equal relevance across the social sciences. This goes for topics like the role of theory; research design; validity assessment; statistical inference, and replication. Entrepreneurship research has developed rapidly in the decade that has passed since the first edition. Therefore, all chapters have been comprehensively updated and many hav…
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1 What is Entrepreneurship? -- Chapter 2 Entrepreneurship as Research Domain -- Chapter 3 This Thing Called “Theory” -- Chapter 4 General Design Issues -- Chapter 5 Sampling and Case Selection Issues -- Chapter 6 Operationalization Issues -- Chapter 7 The Dependent Variable -- Chapter 8 The Entrepreneurship Nexus -- Chapter 9 The Power of Replication -- Chapter 10 A Quick Look at Analysis Method -- Epilogue. .
  note: by Per Davidsson.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Operations Research, Management Science
  classification: HB615
  classification: 658.421
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Studies in Entrepreneurship, 33
  identifier: 9783319266923
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26692-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 160305
    record change date: 20161223031618.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-26692-3