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Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Those Who Research

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Publication date: 10 November 2023

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(2023), "Index", Higgins, D., Brentnall, C., Jones, P. and McGowan, P. (Ed.) Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Those Who Research (Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 265-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-724620230000017018

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Copyright © 2024 David Higgins, Catherine Brentnall, Paul Jones and Pauric McGown


INDEX

Abductive method
, 229

Aboutness-thinking
, 188

Academic writing
, 12–13, 15, 19–20

Academic/practice-oriented research agenda
, 4

Age of Shopping
, 259

Althusser
, 242–243, 245–247

Anthropocene era
, 150

Apathy to Place
, 133–135

Apprendre le Québec guide
, 213

Archival data
, 200

Art Therapy
, 76

Artistic production
, 152

Atlas.ti
, 122, 216

Audio diaries
, 197

Auto–ethnography
, 179–180

Axial coding
, 116

Belonging
, 20

Biesta
, 225–227, 231, 262

Biodiversity review
, 259

Brickstorming
, 91

approach
, 98

building up and breaking down
, 102–103

capturing object
, 98–101

emotional blocks
, 101–102

experiences
, 96

Lego
, 97–98

material interview
, 95–96

objects interview
, 95–96

phenomenological interviews
, 94–95

practical recommendations
, 104

qualitative research interviews
, 93

reflections on
, 103

Build-and-talk approach
, 98

Business Model Canvas (BMC)
, 225–227, 233, 235, 259

Business modelling
, 226

Business studies
, 114

Business-related CR literature
, 49

Call for reflection
, 224

Canadian cities
, 211

Canadian identities programme
, 211

Capitalism
, 259

Case study methods
, 52

ChatGPT
, 19, 123

Circular composition
, 156

City of Gatineau plans
, 212

Climate Tipping Points
, 261

Coding
, 116–117

and analysis techniques
, 216–217

paradigm
, 116

units
, 117

Cognition
, 110, 112

Cognitive activity
, 110

Cognitive development
, 118

of entrepreneurs
, 120

Cohen’s kappa
, 117

Collaboration
, 61

Collage
, 163–165

identify hierarchy of elements in
, 157–158

as medium for expressing emotions
, 166–167

method
, 160

as methodology to collect rich qualitative data
, 153–154

and semiotic analysis
, 154–159

Commodification
, 247

Communication artefacts
, 200

Community Empowerment Act (2015)
, 129

Competition
, 247

Complex adaptive systems (CAS)
, 46

Conceptual representations
, 158

Constructionist
, 93

Constructivism
, 208

Constructivist adult learning orientations theories
, 123

Contemporary language
, 6

Content analysis
, 208

Context
, 168

context-mechanism-output
, 67–69

Conventional methods
, 152

Creative writing classes
, 15

Critical Entrepreneurship Studies
, 13

Critical realism (CR)
, 44, 58–61

complexity, uncertainty and rejection of determinism
, 53–54

EE research frameworks and methodologies
, 45–48

enterprise policy that might create impactful approach for
, 61–62

layered realist ontology
, 50–51

methodological gap in EE research
, 44–45

methodological plurality and flexibility
, 51–52

ontology
, 45

potential contribution
, 48–50

retroductive analytical processes
, 52–53

Critical realists
, 63

approach
, 59

inquiry
, 62

Critical reflexivity
, 249–253

entrepreneurship-as-practice turn and ideological discussions in entrepreneurship
, 243–245

ideology
, 245–247

interpellated researcher subject
, 247–249

Criticisms
, 6

Culture
, 45

Cumbrian workshops
, 140

Data analysis process
, 154

Data coding
, 122

and analysis
, 118–120

Data collection
, 29–30, 118, 152

Data congruence
, 28–30, 36

confessional tale of field
, 31–36

context of recent field study
, 31

focus group interview with NGO personnel
, 32–33

listening to untold stories
, 33–34

practical considerations
, 38–39

processing first verbatims
, 31–32

SPS
, 37

studying feelings of participants
, 34–35

trying to desensitise
, 35–36

Death by data asphyxiation
, 201

Decentration
, 153

of emotions
, 167

Declarative knowledge
, 119

Department for Education Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy
, 259

Design
, 114–117

perspective
, 114

Dialogical approach
, 77–78

Diaries
, 197–198

Diary data collection methods
, 111, 122

limitations of
, 121–122

Diary data method
, 123

Diary data studies
, 114

benefits of prospective data
, 114–115

coding and analysis
, 116–117

collecting diary data
, 115–116

data coding and analysis
, 118–120

data collection
, 118

example of
, 117

results of analysis
, 120

retrospective vs. prospective data collection
, 114

sampling of respondents
, 117

study context
, 117

Diary-interview method
, 195

Didactic triangle
, 225, 232

Digital photographs
, 15

Digitalisation of diary data collection methods
, 123

Direct observation
, 213

Discourse analysis
, 216

Diversification
, 208

Diversity
, 3

Doctoral research
, 13

Doing research
, 21

Drama-oriented high school
, 15

Draw-a-person test
, 76

Drawings
, 78–79

Ecological anxiety
, 160

Economic polarisation
, 150

Education
, 174, 260–261

Educator-scholar
, 259

Emotional blocks
, 101–102

Emotions
, 29, 151–153, 160

collage as medium for expressing
, 166–167

Empirical data analysis
, 119

Enculturation
, 225

Engaged scholarship
, 44

Enterprise
, 74

culture
, 244–245

policy might create impactful approach for critical realism
, 61–62

Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)
, 67

Entrepreneur
, 3

Entrepreneurial cognition
, 110

Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE)
, 44

methodological gap in EE research
, 44–45

Entrepreneurial identity
, 74–75

Entrepreneurial intentions
, 120

Entrepreneurial sensemaking

diary data studies
, 114–117

example of diary data study
, 117–120

grounded theory approach
, 113

limitations of diary data collection method
, 121–122

research method
, 122–123

sensemaking and inquiry into intersubjective meaning-making
, 111

sensemaking perspective
, 112–113

Entrepreneurial ventures
, 243

Entrepreneuring, withness perspective promises new insights into
, 189–190

Entrepreneurs in Canada
, 212

Entrepreneurship
, 19, 29, 184, 206, 225–226, 243, 258, 262

ethnographic study of entrepreneurship societies
, 20

scholars
, 114, 130

semiotic analysis of images in qualitative research in management and
, 152–159

Entrepreneurship education (EE)
, 74, 225, 232, 243

approach
, 228–229

future directions
, 236–237

individual reflections from theoretical perspective
, 232–234

integrating discussion and theory development
, 234–236

subjective positions
, 229–230

teaching tools
, 230–231

and tools
, 225–228

Entrepreneurship research
, 2, 12, 95

ethnography in
, 179–181

opportunity
, 3–4

voice and space
, 4–7

Entrepreneurship studies
, 188, 207

context-mechanism-output
, 67–69

critical realism
, 58–61

enterprise policy that might create impactful approach for critical realism
, 61–62

open systems
, 65–67

transitive and intransitive dimensions
, 62–65

Entrepreneurship-as-practice
, 13

turn and ideological discussions in entrepreneurship
, 243–245

Ethics Committee of Laval University
, 214

Ethnographic fieldwork
, 199–200

Ethnographic writing
, 20

Ethnography
, 179–180

being embedded in contexts
, 180–181

in entrepreneurship research
, 179

ethnography and auto-ethnography
, 179–180

role of gender of researcher
, 181

European Union’s Cohesion Policy
, 129

Evaluation
, 58, 61, 64, 68

Event-contingent diary design
, 115

Evolve Digital
, 68

Ex post data collection
, 114

Execution
, 114–117

Feelings
, 29

Field diary
, 15

Finance
, 45

Financial privileges
, 172–174

First-order coding
, 119

Fragmentation
, 2

Free writing exercises
, 15

Fridays for Future movement
, 262

Gender inequalities
, 172

Gender of researcher, role of
, 181

Gender-related power dimensions
, 176

Global North
, 258

Global South
, 258

legitimacy of research in
, 177–179

Globalisation
, 150

Go-to concepts
, 130

Grounded theory
, 207

adaptation to approximate withness
, 191–192

approach
, 113, 116, 119

archival data
, 200

diaries
, 197–198

and entrepreneurship studies
, 207

ethnographic fieldwork
, 199–200

future directions for research methods pedagogy
, 202–203

interviews
, 198–199

method
, 207–209

positive aspects of study
, 200

remaining challenges
, 201–202

studying unfolding of strategy-making in international new venture
, 195–197

thinking of warp and weft of process data helps researchers design and sample for withness
, 192–195

useful starting point for withness approach
, 190–191

withness perspective promises new insights into entrepreneuring
, 189–190

Grounded theory methodology (GTM)
, 188, 190

Group based research
, 144

Habits
, 18

Higher Education (HE)
, 74

Hot cognition
, 94

Human capital
, 45

Human geography
, 142

Humboldtian approach
, 261

Ideational metafunction
, 158

Identity
, 13

Ideological interpellation
, 251–252

Ideological state apparatuses (ISAs)
, 246

Ideological violence
, 251

Ideology
, 242–244

Althusser and ‘going against the grain’
, 245–247

Image
, 85

identify key representations of
, 156–157

ImmigrAffaires Gatineau guide
, 212

Immigrant entrepreneurship
, 206

grounded theory and entrepreneurship studies
, 207

grounded theory method
, 207–209

theorising immigrant entrepreneurship of Mexicans in Québec
, 209–220

Impostor syndrome
, 15

Individualism
, 247

Innovation
, 262

Inquiry
, 1

into intersubjective meaning-making
, 111–113

Inter-ethnography
, 225

Interactional process
, 92

Interculturalism
, 211–212

International new venture, studying unfolding of strategy-making in
, 195–197

Interpellation
, 246–247

Interpersonal metafunction
, 158

Interpretation
, 168

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
, 91–92

Intersubjective meaning-making, sensemaking and inquiry into
, 111

Intersubjectivity
, 110, 151

Interval-contingent diary study design
, 115

Interviews
, 91–92, 132, 198–199

Intransitive dimensions
, 62–65

Knowledge exchange
, 93

Labor force
, 206

Language
, 227

Layered realist ontology
, 50–51

Legitimacy of research in Global South
, 177–179

Lego (tool)
, 92, 97–98

Lego Serious Play (LSP)
, 97

Lego® Group
, 97

Levelling up
, 58

Line of forces (LF)
, 154

Line-by-line analysis
, 209

Linguistic resources
, 19

Listening
, 30

Lived experiences
, 28

Local Agenda 21 (LA21)
, 129

Long-time process studies
, 199

Mainstream education
, 243–244

Markets
, 45

Material interview
, 95–96

Material privileges
, 172–174

Materials
, 91–92

MAXQDA
, 216

Meaning units
, 117

Methodological guides
, 151

Methodological plurality and flexibility
, 51–52

Methodology
, 47–48, 142

Mexicans
, 206

entrepreneurs in Quebec
, 206

theorising immigrant entrepreneurship of Mexicans in Québec
, 209–220

Micro bank in Tanzania
, 174–175

Ministry of the Economy
, 209

Minority entrepreneurs
, 206

Mirror sensitivity
, 37

Misinterpellation
, 247, 252

Mission Zero review
, 259

Modes of inquiry
, 260–261

Moods
, 29

Multicultural model of integration
, 211

Narrative representations
, 158

National Audit Office
, 61, 67

National Finance Ministry
, 209

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
, 206

NVivo
, 122, 133, 216

Objects
, 91

interview
, 95–96

Observing
, 30

Open coding
, 116

Open systems
, 65–67

Oral presentations and exchanges, support for
, 163–166

Ordre des Comptables agréés
, 213

Organisational studies
, 114

Pandemics
, 150

Partial structuring
, 80

Participant observation
, 213

Participant-led drawing
, 78

Participant’s unexpressed feelings
, 37

Participative action methods
, 144

Participatory visual methods
, 76

Pedagogical instrument
, 115

Peer-reviewers
, 20

Personal experience
, 22

Phenomenological interviews
, 94–95

Phenomenology
, 94

Photo elicitation
, 152

Photo voice method
, 75

Photo-elicitation
, 143

Physical observation
, 199

Pilot in the Plane
, 260

Place in entrepreneurship research

acknowledging place-based language
, 135–136

apathy to place
, 133–135

comparing regions
, 136–137

Cumbria
, 139–140

engaging group discussions of place
, 138–139

growth and importance of ‘place-based’ approaches
, 128

implications for future place-based research
, 142–143

importance of place in sustainability research
, 128–130

insights from individual conversations about place
, 132–133

key learnings
, 143–144

Lancashire
, 140

methodological challenges of researching place
, 130–131

moving to global concerns
, 135–136

overall observations
, 140–142

research context
, 131

revealing personal attachment to place
, 137–138

Place-based research
, 144

Place–based approaches, growth and importance of
, 128

Policy
, 45

implications
, 47–48

Positivism
, 208

Post qualitative inquiry
, 259–260

Power
, 183

Power dimensions and ethical considerations
, 181–182

Power dynamics

ethnography in entrepreneurship research
, 179

future directions for research methods
, 182–183

implications for future studies
, 183

legitimacy of research in Global South
, 177–179

lived experiences of women entrepreneurs
, 172–177

power dimensions and ethical considerations
, 181–182

Practice perspectives
, 188

Practice theory
, 13

Procedural knowledge
, 119

Process driven theory
, 4

Process perspectives
, 188

Process research
, 192

Prospective data

benefits of
, 114–115

collection
, 114

Provalis
, 122

Publishing
, 12

process
, 202

Purposes
, 231, 233

Qualification
, 233–234

Qualitative analysis
, 206

Qualitative data

collage as methodology to collect rich
, 153–154

collection
, 151, 153

Qualitative entrepreneurship research methods
, 92

Qualitative methods
, 159, 224

(see also Visual methods)
collage
, 163–166

collage as medium for expressing emotions
, 166–167

data analysis
, 161–163

data collection
, 159–161

methodology
, 159

results
, 163

semiotic analysis of images in qualitative research in management and entrepreneurship
, 152–159

Qualitative research
, 13, 28, 249

(see also Entrepreneurship research)
semiotic analysis of images in qualitative research in management and entrepreneurship
, 152–159

Quebec
, 206

coding and analysis techniques
, 216–217

limits of research
, 217–220

sources and methods of data collection
, 213–216

territory of analysis
, 209–213

theorising immigrant entrepreneurship of Mexicans in
, 209–220

Racism
, 60

Randomised control trials (RCT)
, 67

Real-time study
, 188

Realism
, 59

Realist evaluation
, 67–69

Recognition
, 252

Reflection
, 12

Reflexive inquiry
, 7

Reflexivity
, 249, 252

Regional diversity
, 144

Research design
, 68, 77–78

Research methods pedagogy, future directions for
, 202–203

Research process
, 200

Researching place, methodological challenges of
, 130–131

Resource acquisition
, 182

Retroduction
, 50

Retroductive analytical method
, 48, 52–53

Retroductive approach
, 63

Retrofitting
, 121

Retrospective data
, 110, 114

Scientific inquiry
, 110

Second-order coding
, 119

Sedimented social knowledge
, 82

Segregation
, 2

Semantics
, 168

Semi-structured interviews
, 213

Semiotic analysis

of BMC
, 228

collage and semiotic analysis
, 154

collage as methodology to collect rich qualitative data
, 153–154

identify composition of collage
, 156

identify hierarchy of elements in collage
, 157–158

identify key representations of image
, 156–157

identify LF present in collage
, 155

identify viewer’s position
, 157

of images in qualitative research in management and entrepreneurship
, 152

interpret meaning of all elements
, 158–159

Sense-breaking
, 112

Sense-demanding
, 112

Sense-giving
, 112

Sensemaking
, 111–113

perspective
, 112–113

Sensitivity
, 37

Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS)
, 37

in fieldwork
, 37–38

scores
, 38

Sign
, 167

Signal-contingent diary data collection method
, 115

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
, 131

Smart Specialisation
, 129

Snowball sampling technique
, 213

Social embedding
, 113

Social entrepreneurship events
, 21

Social Tipping Points
, 261

Social world
, 65

Socialisation
, 234

Societal ecology
, 142

Socio-cultural approach
, 227

Sociology
, 59

Stakeholders
, 131

engagement
, 128

Strategy-making in international new venture, studying unfolding of
, 195–197

Subjectification
, 234

Subjective drawings
, 79

Subjectivity
, 151, 245

Substantive coding
, 116

Support
, 45

Sustainability research, importance of place in
, 128–130

Sustainable development
, 131

Sustainable Development Goals
, 172

Syllabus analysis
, 151

Sympathetic critique
, 45

Syntax
, 167–168

Tanzania, micro bank in
, 174–175

Text books
, 6

Textual metafunction
, 159

Theoretical sampling
, 214

in GTM
, 191

for novel emergence
, 192

Theoretical saturation
, 215

Theorisation
, 208

Transcription
, 209

Transitive dimensions
, 62–65

Universal economic measures
, 129

Unstructured interviews
, 213

US’s Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Act (1993)
, 129

Valley envy perspective
, 48–49

Verbal overshadowing
, 84

Visual data
, 75

collection methods
, 76

Visual methods
, 75–77

dilemmas of
, 79–86

drawings
, 78–79

research
, 74–75

research design
, 77–78

Visual representations
, 83

Vulnerable groups
, 172

of people
, 182

Warp

main complement for both
, 199–200

naturalistic input for
, 200

potent data collection instrument for
, 197–198

Weber’s comprehensive analysis
, 150

Weft

main complement for both
, 199–200

useful instrument to sample for
, 198–199

Western education system
, 80

Whilst visual methods
, 143

Withness

adaptation to approximate
, 191–192

approach
, 192

grounded theory useful starting point for
, 190–191

perspective promises new insights into entrepreneuring
, 189–190

Withness-thinking
, 188

Women
, 172

entrepreneurship
, 172

Women entrepreneurs

costs of being woman in Pakistan
, 176–177

financial and material privileges
, 172–174

gender and power dimensions
, 176–

lived experiences of
, 172

micro bank in Tanzania
, 174–175

power of knowledge
, 174–

Writing
, 12

body, physical conditions and emotions
, 13–15

entrepreneurship research
, 20–22

expectations
, 19–20

future directions for research
, 22–23

habit
, 17–19

learned to
, 15–17

practice
, 16

up process research
, 202

Prelims
Chapter 1: Introduction: Learning to See Nothing But Seeking to Gain Everything: Entrepreneurship Research as an Artistic Process of Inquiry
Chapter 2: A Sneak Peek into the Process of Writing Entrepreneurship Research
Chapter 3: Data Congruence in What They Say, Do and Feel: The Role of Researcher's Sensory Processing Sensitivity Trait
Chapter 4: Critical Realism as a Framework for Engaged Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research
Chapter 5: The Impactful Potential of Critical Realist Methodologies in Entrepreneurship Studies
Chapter 6: Visual Methods in Entrepreneurial Identity Research: Reflections from an Enterprise Educator Perspective
Chapter 7: Brickstorming: Using Materials to Elicit Meaning in Research Interviews
Chapter 8: Making the Meaningful Moments Visible – About the Real-time Study of Entrepreneurial Sensemaking
Chapter 9: Lost for Words: Trying to Investigate ‘Place’ in Entrepreneurship Research
Chapter 10: Decentration and Intersubjectivity: Collage as a Qualitative Method of Data Collection
Chapter 11: Research Involving Women in the Global South – Reflections on Power Dynamics
Chapter 12: Warp and Weft in Grounded Theory: A Metaphor for a Withness Approach to Entrepreneurship Research
Chapter 13: Building an Immigrant Entrepreneurship Grounded Theory: The Case of Mexican Entrepreneurs in Quebec
Chapter 14: Intersubjective Dialogue as a Form of Inquiry – Discussing the Purpose of Entrepreneurship Education Tools
Chapter 15: Critical Reflexivity as the Last Frontier to Uncover and Change the Ideologies Buried Behind Practices
Chapter 16: Epilogue – Modes of Inquiry for a World Worth Living in for All …
Index