Researching Entrepreneurship

Professor Per Davidsson is Director and Talbot Family Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) in the QUT Business School (Management). He holds a second affiliation as Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Jönköping International Business School, Sweden. Per is especially known for his extensive research on start-up and growth of small firms as well as societal well-being and job creation effects of those activities. Apart from many books, book chapters and research reports, he has published over 60 peer reviewed articles in scholarly journals, and he is one of the most cited scholars in entrepreneurship worldwide.  In 2010/11, Per served as elected Chair of the leading professional organization in his field,  the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. He is Field Editor of the leading scholarly publication, the Journal of Business Venturing and serves on the editorial boards for several otherjournals. He has led several major research programs based on longitudinal survey studies; large-scale archival data compilation and analysis, and experimental research approaches.

“Researching Entrepreneurship (Conceptualization and Design) is an outstanding book indispensable for entrepreneurship scholars. Also very interesting to sophisticated non-academic users, such as analysts in marketing research or consultancy firms, business associations, statistical agencies and other government offices. And as is written in an accessible way to the general public, it is also valuable for anyone interested in these issues.” (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, International Journal of Latest Trends in Finance & Economic Sciences, Vol. 6 (3), December, 2016)

• Preface.- Chapter 1 What is Entrepreneurship?.- Chapter 2 Entrepreneurship as Research Domain.- Chapter 3 This Thing Called “Theory”.- Chapter 4 General Design Issues.- Chapter 5 Sampling and Case Selection Issues.- Chapter 6 Operationalization Issues.- Chapter 7 The Dependent Variable.- Chapter 8 The Entrepreneurship Nexus.- Chapter 9 The Power of Replication.- Chapter 10 A Quick Look at Analysis Method.- Epilogue.