Firm-level entrepreneurship and field research: the studies in their methodological context. From: Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice | Date: March 22, 1995| Author: Savage, Grant T.; Black, Janice A. | COPYRIGHT 1995 Baylor University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Entrepreneurship researchers operate from various paradigms that embrace a wide range of methods from quantitative to qualitative. The studies in this special issue offer an interesting mixture of field methods. We examine the authors' epistemological ("How do we know?") and teleological ("Why do we know?") choices, which affect the types of data gathered, the ways in which the data are analyzed, and the kinds of interpretations formed about the data. By placing these studies in their methodo...

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