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Handbook of Qualitative Research Techniques and Analysis in Entrepreneurship
Edited by Helle Neergaard and Claire Leitch
This insightful Handbook introduces a variety of qualitative data collection methods and analysis techniques pertinent in exploring the complex phenomenon of entrepreneurship. Detailed and practical accounts of how to conduct research employing verbal protocol analysis, critical incident technique, repertory grids, metaphors, and the constant comparative method are provided. Scholars new to the area, doctoral students, as well as established academics keen to extend their research scope, will find this book an invaluable and timely resource.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 30 Oct 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781849809863
- eISBN:
- 9781849809870
- Pages:
- 464
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- Handbook of Qualitative Research Techniques and Analysis in Entrepreneurship
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- An introduction to the constant comparative technique
- Chapter 1: Using the constant comparative technique to consider network change and evolution
- Chapter 2: Using constant comparison as a method of analysis in entrepreneurship research
- Chapter 3: Grounded theory analysis in entrepreneurship research
- The future for the constant comparative technique
- Metaphor methodologies: exploring entrepreneurship research, pedagogy and researchers
- Chapter 4: Enacting, experimenting and exploring metaphor methodologies in entrepreneurship
- Chapter 5: Con‘text’ualizing images of enterprise: an examination of ‘visual metaphors’ used to represent entrepreneurship in textbooks
- Chapter 6: Metaphors in communication of scholarly work
- Metaphor methodologies in entrepreneurship research
- The critical incident technique: an overview
- Chapter 7: Researching the entrepreneurial process using the critical incident technique
- Chapter 8: The efficacy of the qualitative variant of the critical incident technique (CIT) in entrepreneurship research
- Chapter 9: A critical incident technique approach to entrepreneurship research using phenomenological explicative data collection
- Critical incident technique: some conclusions
- Provenance and use of focus groups
- Chapter 10: Conducting a traditional focus group
- Chapter 11: Conducting a focus group using group support system (GSS) software
- Chapter 12: Conducting an on-line focus group
- Focus groups: what have we learned?
- Repertory grids in entrepreneurship: practical examples from research
- Chapter 13: Using repertory grid technique to explore the relationship between business founders and support agents
- Chapter 14: Using repertory grid to assess intangibles: uncertainty reduction for lean start-ups in entrepreneurship
- Chapter 15: Repertory grid technique: an ideographic and nomothetic approach to knowledge
- Concluding thoughts on repertory grids
- Index
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- Handbook of Qualitative Research Techniques and Analysis in Entrepreneurship
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- An introduction to the constant comparative technique
- Chapter 1: Using the constant comparative technique to consider network change and evolution
- Chapter 2: Using constant comparison as a method of analysis in entrepreneurship research
- Chapter 3: Grounded theory analysis in entrepreneurship research
- The future for the constant comparative technique
- Metaphor methodologies: exploring entrepreneurship research, pedagogy and researchers
- Chapter 4: Enacting, experimenting and exploring metaphor methodologies in entrepreneurship
- Chapter 5: Con‘text’ualizing images of enterprise: an examination of ‘visual metaphors’ used to represent entrepreneurship in textbooks
- Chapter 6: Metaphors in communication of scholarly work
- Metaphor methodologies in entrepreneurship research
- The critical incident technique: an overview
- Chapter 7: Researching the entrepreneurial process using the critical incident technique
- Chapter 8: The efficacy of the qualitative variant of the critical incident technique (CIT) in entrepreneurship research
- Chapter 9: A critical incident technique approach to entrepreneurship research using phenomenological explicative data collection
- Critical incident technique: some conclusions
- Provenance and use of focus groups
- Chapter 10: Conducting a traditional focus group
- Chapter 11: Conducting a focus group using group support system (GSS) software
- Chapter 12: Conducting an on-line focus group
- Focus groups: what have we learned?
- Repertory grids in entrepreneurship: practical examples from research
- Chapter 13: Using repertory grid technique to explore the relationship between business founders and support agents
- Chapter 14: Using repertory grid to assess intangibles: uncertainty reduction for lean start-ups in entrepreneurship
- Chapter 15: Repertory grid technique: an ideographic and nomothetic approach to knowledge
- Concluding thoughts on repertory grids
- Index