Entrepreneurial theorizing: an approach to research

By:

Shepherd, Dean A

Contributor(s):

Patzelt, Holger

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Palgrave Macmillan Switzerland 2023Description: xv, 210 pISBN:

9783031240478

Subject(s):

Entrepreneurship research methodology

DDC classification:

338.04072 SHE

Summary: This open access book investigates an entrepreneurial approach to building new theories. It provides a rich understanding of how specific tools facilitate aspects of the theorizing process and offers a clearer big picture of the process of building important new entrepreneurship theories. The authors show that anthropomorphizing has been a critically important tool for developing influential entrepreneurship theories. They reveal how scholars build on their rich and highly accessible understanding of humans (i.e., the self and others) to make guesses and sense of entrepreneurial anomalies, articulate theoretical mechanisms to build more robust entrepreneurship theories, and create plausible stories that facilitate sensegiving. Further, they offer a frameworkthat guides entrepreneurship scholars in finding a balance to maximize their contributions and guides reviewers and editors in managing the revise-and-resubmit process to advance the entrepreneurship field. Finally, they present lean scholarship as an approach to developing a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. Lean scholarship starts with an entrepreneurial mindset and involves creating a minimum viable paper, exploring its validity, adding a plausible paper to one’s portfolio, and managing the portfolio by periodically deciding whether to persevere, pivot, or terminate each paper. This seminal work will appeal to entrepreneurship researchers, both those new to the field as well as seasoned veterans, who want to learn more about the tools that can be used to generate new knowledge about new ventures and other entrepreneurship topics. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24045-4)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	338.04072 SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		006623

Table of content:
Front Matter
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Theorizing and Entrepreneurship
Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt
Pages 1-39
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Me-Search for Generating Ideas for Entrepreneurial Theorizing
Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt
Pages 41-56
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Anthropomorphizing for Entrepreneurial Theorizing
Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt
Pages 57-91
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Managing Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurial Theorizing
Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt
Pages 93-131
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Writing Entrepreneurial-Theorizing Outcomes
Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt
Pages 133-167
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A Lean Approach to Entrepreneurial Theorizing
Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt
Pages 169-206
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Back Matter
Pages 207-210
[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24045-4]

This open access book investigates an entrepreneurial approach to building new theories. It provides a rich understanding of how specific tools facilitate aspects of the theorizing process and offers a clearer big picture of the process of building important new entrepreneurship theories. The authors show that anthropomorphizing has been a critically important tool for developing influential entrepreneurship theories. They reveal how scholars build on their rich and highly accessible understanding of humans (i.e., the self and others) to make guesses and sense of entrepreneurial anomalies, articulate theoretical mechanisms to build more robust entrepreneurship theories, and create plausible stories that facilitate sensegiving. Further, they offer a frameworkthat guides entrepreneurship scholars in finding a balance to maximize their contributions and guides reviewers and editors in managing the revise-and-resubmit process to advance the entrepreneurship field. Finally, they present lean scholarship as an approach to developing a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. Lean scholarship starts with an entrepreneurial mindset and involves creating a minimum viable paper, exploring its validity, adding a plausible paper to one’s portfolio, and managing the portfolio by periodically deciding whether to persevere, pivot, or terminate each paper. This seminal work will appeal to entrepreneurship researchers, both those new to the field as well as seasoned veterans, who want to learn more about the tools that can be used to generate new knowledge about new ventures and other entrepreneurship topics.
(https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24045-4)

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