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Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Entrepreneurship Research with Preregistrations, Registered Reports, and Registered Revisions: A Call for Papers

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  • Katharina Fellnhofer
  • Karl Wennberg
  • Thomas H. Allison
  • Pia Arenius
  • Moren Lévesque
  • J. Jeffrey Gish
  • Jeffrey M. Pollack

Abstract

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice ( ETP ) is committed to advancing transparency, replicability, credibility, and rigor in research. To support this commitment, we encourage authors to preregister their research plans, submit empirical studies as Registered Reports, and engage with our evolving editorial processes, such as Registered Revisions. Drawing on practices across multiple disciplines, we offer guidance for integrating these publication formats into our field. We also provide multiple resources to support authors in adopting these approaches and to address the unique challenges of applying such formats to, for example, secondary data. By more widely embracing the Registered Report approach, we envision a future for entrepreneurship research that is characterized by greater credibility, replicability, transparency, and scientific impact. In this editorial, we motivate and, hopefully, guide future work by making a specific call for manuscripts for a virtual special issue of ETP focused on Registered Reports, strengthening ETP ’s longstanding commitment to methodological innovation. We offer a prospective vision—what we believe would be good for future literature—and our aim is to empower scholars to proactively shape new theoretical and empirical foundations in entrepreneurship research that enhance the credibility and replicability of entrepreneurship research.

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  • Katharina Fellnhofer & Karl Wennberg & Thomas H. Allison & Pia Arenius & Moren Lévesque & J. Jeffrey Gish & Jeffrey M. Pollack, 2026. "Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Entrepreneurship Research with Preregistrations, Registered Reports, and Registered Revisions: A Call for Papers," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 50(3), pages 643-670, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:entthe:v:50:y:2026:i:3:p:643-670
    DOI: 10.1177/10422587251401175
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