International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 21 Issue 3

A review of research methods in entrepreneurship 1985-2013

Seonaidh McDonald, Bee Ching Gan, Simon S Fraser, Adekunle Oke, Alistair R. Anderson

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…

A holistic social constructionist perspective to enterprise education

Deema Refai, Rita G. Klapper, John Thompson

Drawing on the Gestalt approach the purpose of this paper is to propose a holistic framework for enterprise education (EE) research based on Social Constructionism, illustrating…

Entrepreneurial social capital research: resolving the structure and agency dualism

Robert Lee, Oswald Jones

While there is a large volume of entrepreneurial social capital research, the philosophical assumptions have received limited attention. The purpose of this paper is to review and…

Developing qualitative research streams relating to illegal rural enterprise: Reflections on researching qualitatively at the margins of entrepreneurship research

Robert Smith, Gerard McElwee

The purpose of this reflective paper is to discuss and reflect and in the process celebrate the development of a qualitative research stream which continues to interrogate the…

Case sensitive? A review of the literature on the use of case method in entrepreneurship research

Colette Henry, Lene Foss

The purpose of this paper is to review the use of case method in entrepreneurship research, and to identify trends in its current application. A key objective of the paper is to…

The reflexive case study method: a practice approach to SME globalization

Iris Rittenhofer

This paper is positioned at the intersection of the spatial and the practice turn in management research. The purpose of this paper is to address the phenomenon of transgressive…

Biographical research as a methodology for understanding entrepreneurial marketing

Ian Fillis

The purpose of this paper is to respond to the Special Issue call by developing the case for enhancing understanding of entrepreneurial marketing by utilising biographical…

Stick or twist? The practice of undertaking life story interviews in-the-moment

Alex Kevill, Kiran Trehan, Mark Easterby-Smith, David Higgins

The purpose of this paper is to provide small business and entrepreneurship researchers with insights to help them undertake life story interviewing, in order that this can…

Between cognition and discourse: phenomenology and the study of entrepreneurship

Henrik Berglund

The purpose of this paper is to describe phenomenological approaches to studying entrepreneurs and their behaviors. The goal is to illustrate how phenomenology can provide a…

How not to do it!! A salutary lesson on longitudinal and qualitative research approaches for entrepreneurship researchers

Laura Galloway, Isla Kapasi, Geoffrey Whittam

The purpose of this paper is to report the experiences of researchers seeking to undertake mixed methods longitudinal research in the entrepreneurship discipline. In this…

Community-Based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development

Gary Bosworth

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship. What We Know and What We Need to Know

Rocío Aliaga-Isla

Developing perspectives and challenging the "status quo"

David Higgins, Kiran Trehan, Pauric McGowan