Firm-Level Entrepreneurship and Field Research: The Studies in Their Methodological Context

Grant T. Savage and Janice A. Black

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 1995, vol. 19, issue 3, 25-34

Abstract: Entrepreneurship researchers operate from various paradigms that embrace a wide range of methods from quantitative to qualitative. The studies in this special issue offer an interesting mixture of field methods. We examine the authors’ epistemological (“How do we know?†) and teleological (“Why do we know?†) choices, which affect the types of data gathered, the ways In which the data are analyzed, and the kinds of Interpretations formed about the data. By placing these studies in their methodological context, we believe the truthfulness and credibility of the conclusions drawn by the authors will be better appreciated and more fully understood.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1177/104225879501900303

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