Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in EntrepreneurshipHelle Neergaard, John P. Ulhøi 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. |
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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