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Record Nr.

UNINA9910640399303321

Autore

Shepherd Dean A

Titolo

Entrepreneurial Theorizing : An Approach to Research / / by Dean A. Shepherd, Holger Patzelt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031240454

3031240456

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (210 p.)

Classificazione

BUS025000BUS041000

Altri autori (Persone)

PatzeltHolger

Disciplina

338.04072

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship

New business enterprises

Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Theorizing And Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 2: Me-Search For Generating Ideas for Entrepreneurial Theorizing -- Chapter 3: Anthropomorphizing for Entrepreneurial Theorizing -- Chapter 4: Managing Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurial Theorizing -- Chapter 5: Writing Entrepreneurial-Theorizing Outcomes -- Chapter 6: A Lean Approach to Entrepreneurial Theorizing.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book investigates an entrepreneurial approach to building new theories. It provides a rich understanding of how specific tools facilitate aspects of the theorizing process and offers a clearer big picture of the process of building important new entrepreneurship theories. The authors show that anthropomorphizing has been a critically important tool for developing influential entrepreneurship theories. They reveal how scholars build on their rich and highly accessible understanding of humans (i.e., the self and others) to make guesses and sense of entrepreneurial anomalies, articulate theoretical mechanisms to build more robust entrepreneurship theories, and create plausible stories that facilitate sensegiving. Further, they offer a frameworkthat guides entrepreneurship scholars in finding a balance to maximize their contributions and guides reviewers and editors in managing the revise-and-resubmit process to advance the



entrepreneurship field. Finally, they present lean scholarship as an approach to developing a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. Lean scholarship starts with an entrepreneurial mindset and involves creating a minimum viable paper, exploring its validity, adding a plausible paper to one’s portfolio, and managing the portfolio by periodically deciding whether to persevere, pivot, or terminate each paper. This seminal work will appeal to entrepreneurship researchers, both those new to the field as well as seasoned veterans, who want to learn more about the tools that can be used to generate new knowledge about new ventures and other entrepreneurship topics. Dean A. Shepherd is the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University, USA. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Venturing and has published over 180 scholarly journal articles and 23 books on entrepreneurship. Holger Patzelt is Chair in Entrepreneurship at the School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is currently an Associate Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. His research interests include entrepreneurial cognition and economic, emotional and psychological consequences of failure.