Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in EntrepreneurshipHelle Neergaard, John P. Ulhøi Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 - 520 páginas This 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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... action learning and other client - centred learning approaches , within entrepreneurial and executive education and development ; gaining a deeper knowledge of the dynamics of leadership in the process of organizational transformation ...
... action learning and other client - centred learning approaches , within entrepreneurial and executive education and development ; gaining a deeper knowledge of the dynamics of leadership in the process of organizational transformation ...
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... learn if each of the 600 or so researchers who submitted abstracts to the 2004 Babson conference adopted a high-potential entrepreneur and did a longitudinal study of him or her in action. Also imagine how the emphasis of our ...
... learn if each of the 600 or so researchers who submitted abstracts to the 2004 Babson conference adopted a high-potential entrepreneur and did a longitudinal study of him or her in action. Also imagine how the emphasis of our ...
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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 |
18 Avoiding a strikeout in the first innings | 460 |
Unresolved challenges? | 477 |
Index | 481 |
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Página 45 - The attitude of the physicist must therefore be one of pure empiricism. He recognizes no a priori principles which determine or limit the possibilities of new experience. Experience is determined only by experience. This practically means that we must give up the demand that all nature be embraced in any formula, either simple or complicated.
Página 5 - This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to...
Página 308 - ... if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first instance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.
Página 115 - It is as if the necessary connections which are the object of all science, neolithic or modern, could be arrived at by two different routes, one very close to, and the other more remote from, sensible intuition. Any classification is superior to chaos and even a classification at the level of sensible properties is a step towards rational ordering.
Página 46 - Thus he proposed his law of universal gravitation, which we can state as follows: Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Página 40 - Men who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries but they also make very poor observations. They necessarily observe with a preconceived idea and, when they have begun an experiment, they want to see in its results only a confirmation of their theory. Thus they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not race to their goal.
Página 225 - The comment reveals, as much by what it does not say as by what it says, the intensity of his feelings about his father.
Página 62 - Qualitative analysis, with its close-up look, can identify mechanisms, going beyond sheer association. It is unrelentingly local, and deals well with the complex network of events and processes in a situation. It can sort out the temporal dimension, showing clearly what preceded what, either through direct observation or retrospection. It is well equipped to cycle back and forth between variables and processes — showing that "stories" are not capricious, but include underlying variables, and that...
Página 114 - The claim to attention of an ethnographic account does not rest on its author's ability to capture primitive facts in faraway places and carry them home like a mask...
Página 90 - positivism" is tantamount to an absolutely unprejudiced grounding of all sciences on the "positive," that is to say, on what can be seized upon originaliter, then we are the genuine positivists.