Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship (EBE)

A Systematic Approach to Cumulative Science

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23598245
AutoresMichael Frese (0000-0002-6462-4395, National University of Singapore), Andreas Bausch (0000-0002-5473-9324, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Peter Schmidt (0000-0001-6954-8590, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Andreas Rauch (0000-0001-6107-8459, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Rüdiger Kabst (0000-0003-3897-0670, Paderborn University)
Ano2012
Páginas92-111
Data de publicação2012-09-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoThe Oxford handbook of evidence-based management (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199763986.013.0006
OpenAlexW2111935066
ISBN9780199763986
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas73

The concept and aim of an evidence-based entrepreneurship (EBE) is discussed as a strategy to overcome the divide between knowledge developed in the field of entrepreneurship and its use in practice. Evidence constitutes the best summary of knowledge based on several sources of information (several studies, several different research groups, several different methodological approaches, among them the best methods available), all of which go beyond individual experience and isolated studies. We argue that meta-analyses can and should be used in entrepreneurship research (and that it should also be used for qualitative work). Meta-analyses establish certain relationships; these should then be summarized in well-founded models and theories that can be translated into action principles. These action principles can then be used by EBE’s constituents. These include scientists, professionals who regularly deal with entrepreneurs (bankers, consultants, venture capital providers), policy makers (e.g., government), students of entrepreneurship, and, last but not least, the entrepreneurs themselves. Once, a set of action principles have been developed from science, the application of them can be tested with the help of further evidence on the efficacy of interventions (including meta-analyses on the interventions). Evidence-based entrepreneurship (EBE) has the potential to change research, teaching, and practice.

Action (physics) · Empirical evidence · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · Government (linguistics) · Knowledge management · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Set (abstract data type) · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Engineering · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Private Equity and Venture Capital · Psychology