A New Methodological Frontier in Entrepreneurship Research: Big Data Studies

Andreas Schwab and Zhu Zhang

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2019, vol. 43, issue 5, 843-854

Abstract: The emergence of “big data†and related analytic techniques are creating opportunities to advance empirical entrepreneurship theory and practice. This editorial focuses on the implications for the design and execution of empirical studies. It offers guidance on how to navigate related methodological challenges and outlines what editors, professional associations, research-method teachers, and administrators can do to enable high-quality big data research.

Keywords: research methods; quantitative methodologies; big data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1042258718760841

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