Achieving Empirical Progress in an Undefined Field

Pieter A. Vanderwerf and Candida G. Brush

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 1990, vol. 14, issue 2, 45-58

Abstract: Investigators’ practice of sampling from different populations has hindered the progress of empirical entrepreneurship research. Reaching agreement on a narrowed definition of the field would allegedly resolve the problem. However, this paper reports on a survey of emerging empirical fields that Indicates that such fields typically narrow the range of populations they consider, and achieve an acceleration in empirical progress, without a consensus on the definition of the field. The paper therefore investigates how empirical research in entrepreneurship might become constructively focussed through an alternative approach: formalizing the criteria that Investigators use in selecting their samples.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1177/104225879001400205

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