Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research
Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Those who Research
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Despite the developing richness of the field of Entrepreneurship research, the output still suffers from a lack of methodological diversity. This edited collection stimulates discussion, shares practice and explores challenges around current and new approaches to inquiry - encompassing all aspects of entrepreneurship research, from its conception through to its execution and related issues such as education, training and learning.
Advancing the way, we learn, think about and engage with various modalities of inquiry in Entrepreneurship research and practice, and its related subjects and areas of interest, the chapter authors draw inspiration from leading academics in the subject areas across the field. Their explorations centre around three critical points: the questioning of assumptions – who we are and what it is that we want to achieve; of what really makes sense – how we live and experience, our own and other voices and conversations; and of understanding our relationship with our social world and recognising its dynamic and emergent nature.
Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research is an official book series of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). Each volume is designed around a specific theme of importance to the entrepreneurship and small business community with articles collectively exploring and developing theory and practice in the field.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Learning to see NOTHING but seeking to gain EVERYTHING: Entrepreneurship Research as an artistic process of inquiry; David Higgins and Trudie Murray
- Chapter 2. A sneak peek into the process of writing entrepreneurship research; Piritta Parkkari
- Chapter 3. Data Congruence in What They Say, Do, and Feel: The Role of Researcher's Sensory Processing Sensitivity Trait; Yosra Boughattas and Erno T. Tornikoski
- Chapter 4. Critical Realism as a Framework for Engaged Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research; Steve Johnson
- Chapter 5. The impactful potential of critical realist methodologies in entrepreneurship studies; Robert Wapshott and Oliver Mallett
- Chapter 6. Visual Methods in Entrepreneurial Identity Research; reflections from an enterprise educator perspective; Sarah Preedy and Peter McLuskie
- Chapter 7. Brickstorming: using materials to elicit meaning in research interviews; Helen Williams and Katrina Pritchard
- Chapter 8. Making the meaningful moments visible – about the real-time study of entrepreneurial sensemaking; Gabi Kaffka and Norris Krueger
- Chapter 9. Lost for words: Trying to investigate ‘place’ in entrepreneurship research; Catherine Olphin, Joanne Larty, and David Tyfield
- Chapter 10. Decentration and intersubjectivity, collage as a qualitative method of data collection; Stéphane Foliard, Sandrine Le Pontois, and Caroline Verzat
- Chapter 11. Research involving women in the Global South – reflections on power dynamics; Marta Lindvert
- Chapter 12. Warp and weft in grounded theory: a metaphor for a witness approach to entrepreneurship research; Heiko Marc Schmidt and Sandra Milena Santamaria-Alvarez
- Chapter 13. Building an Immigrant Entrepreneurship Grounded Theory: the case of Mexican Entrepreneurs in Quebec; Héctor José Martínez Arboleya
- Chapter 14. Intersubjective Dialogue as a Form of Inquiry – Discussing the Purpose of Entrepreneurship Education Tools; Katarina Ellborg and Nicolai Nybye
- Chapter 15. Critical Reflexivity as the Last Frontier to Uncover and Change the Ideologies Buried Behind Practices; Nicole Gross
- Chapter 16. Epilogue: Nurturing Modes of Inquiry for a World Worth Living In…; Catherine Brentnall
David Higgins is a Senior Lecturer with the University of Liverpool Management School, UK.
Catherine Brentnall is a Senior Lecturer with Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability, UK.
Paul Jones is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Management, Swansea University, UK.
Pauric McGowan holds the Chair for Entrepreneurship and Business Development in the Ulster Business School, Ireland.