Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in EntrepreneurshipThis expansive and practical Handbook introduces the methods currently used to increase the understanding of the usefulness and versatility of a systematic approach to qualitative research in entrepreneurship. It fills a crucial gap in the literature on entrepreneurship theory, and, just as importantly, illustrates how these principles and techniques can be appropriately and fruitfully employed. |
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Contents
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PART I CHOOSING A VEHICLE | 15 |
1 The entrepreneurship paradigm I revisited | 17 |
a suitable vehicle for entrepreneurship research? | 49 |
3 Researching entrepreneurship as lived experience | 75 |
PART II STARTING OUT AND GEARING UP | 95 |
4 Ethnographic methods in entrepreneurship research | 97 |
5 Building grounded theory in entrepreneurship research | 122 |
11 Catching it as it happens | 279 |
12 Techniques for collecting verbal histories | 308 |
13 Using emails as a source of qualitative data | 331 |
14 The scientification of fiction | 359 |
PART IV WINDING DOWN AND ASSESSING THE RIDE | 381 |
15 Assessing the quality of qualitative research in entrepreneurship | 383 |
16 A critical realist approach to quality in observation studies | 406 |
a dialogue on the problems of getting qualitative research published | 434 |
6 An action research approach to entrepreneurship | 144 |
semiotics in entrepreneurial research | 169 |
8 Media discourse in entrepreneurship research | 193 |
9 A Foucauldian framework for discourse analysis | 216 |
10 Sampling in entrepreneurial settings | 253 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship Elgar Original Reference Series |
| Editors | Helle Neergaard, John P. Ulhøi |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1847204384, 9781847204387 |
| Length | 520 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship |
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