Entrepreneurial Theorizing: An Approach to Research

This open-access book explores an entrepreneurial approach to developing new theories, emphasizing the importance of anthropomorphizing and lean scholarship. It provides insights into how scholars use human understanding to make guesses, articulate theoretical mechanisms, and create plausible stories, while offering a framework for balancing contributions and managing the revise-and-resubmit process.

Format: Hardback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 10 January 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book delves into an entrepreneurial approach to crafting new theories, offering a comprehensive exploration of how specific tools facilitate various aspects of the theorizing process. It provides a clearer overarching perspective of the intricate process of building significant and influential entrepreneurship theories. The authors demonstrate that anthropomorphizing has played a pivotal role in the development of groundbreaking entrepreneurship theories. They unveil how scholars leverage their profound and readily accessible knowledge of humans, encompassing the self and others, to make educated guesses and comprehend entrepreneurial anomalies. Furthermore, they elucidate how scholars articulate theoretical mechanisms to strengthen entrepreneurship theories and construct plausible narratives that facilitate sensemaking. Additionally, the authors present a framework that empowers entrepreneurship scholars to strike a balance, maximizing their contributions to the field. This framework also aids reviewers and editors in efficiently managing the revise-and-resubmit process, fostering the advancement of entrepreneurship research. Lastly, the book introduces lean scholarship as an approach to cultivating a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. Lean scholarship begins with an entrepreneurial mindset and entails the creation of a minimum viable paper, the evaluation of its validity, the addition of a plausible paper to one's portfolio, and the ongoing management of the portfolio through periodic decisions regarding persistence, pivoting, or termination for each paper. This seminal work is of immense appeal to entrepreneurship researchers, regardless of their level of experience, who seek to expand their knowledge about the tools that can be employed to generate novel insights into new ventures and other entrepreneurship-related topics.

Weight: 426g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031240447
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023