Research Methods in Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Challenges Academic Article

abstract

• Entrepreneurship is a relatively young field; nonetheless, the research in this domain has been growing at an impressive rate in recent decades. As is commonly the case with emerging fields, entrepreneurship research currently faces a number of opportunities and challenges. Overall, entrepreneurship has an opportunity to establish itself as a field whose methodological rigor matches that of neighboring fields such as organizational behavior and strategic management, but some key challenges stand in the way of completing this endeavor. Herein, we outline the challenges that emerged from an informal survey of editorial board members of Organizational Research Methods (ORM) about the state of entrepreneurship research methods. We then discuss how the articles included in the feature topic on research methods in entrepreneurship hold great promises for resolving these challenges.

authors

• Ireland, Robert

published proceedings

• ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

author list (cited authors)

• Short, J. C., Ketchen, D., Combs, J. G., & Ireland, R. D.

citation count

• 72

complete list of authors

• Short, Jeremy C||Ketchen, David J Jr||Combs, James G||Ireland, R Duane

publication date

• January 2010

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Organizational Research Methods  Journal

keywords

• Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship
• Research Methods

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1094428109342448

start page

• 6

end page

• 15

volume

• 13

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094428109342448