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Achieving Empirical Progress in an Undefined Field

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  • Pieter A. Vanderwerf
  • Candida G. Brush

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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.

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  • Pieter A. Vanderwerf & Candida G. Brush, 1990. "Achieving Empirical Progress in an Undefined Field," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 14(2), pages 45-58, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:entthe:v:14:y:1990:i:2:p:45-58
    DOI: 10.1177/104225879001400205
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