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dc.contributor.authorDrakopoulou Dodd, S
dc.contributor.authorJones, P
dc.contributor.authorMc Elwee, G
dc.contributor.authorHaddoud, Mohamed Yacine
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-25T14:43:19Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-24
dc.identifier.issn1462-6004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/6622
dc.description.abstract

<jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title> <jats:p>The purpose of this paper is to report findings from the first stage of a study that focusses on research in the domain of entrepreneurship as a process of knowledge creation and exchange. It seeks to discover what entrepreneurship scholars really believe that they contribute. Focusses on the entrepreneurship academic community and examine two issues: the value scholars perceive, in terms of both how an individuals’ work can be seen to be a contribution to knowledge, and what “contribution to knowledge” means to the individual researcher.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title> <jats:p>The authors employ a qualitative approach within which 20 entrepreneurship professors were asked to complete a semi structured research instrument to express their opinions on the value of the authors’ research and the extent to which the authors’ work contribute to knowledge and practice. The sample was drawn from full entrepreneurship professors from the UK, USA, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title> <jats:p>Suggest that entrepreneurship scholars publish for a plurality of reasons including personal fulfilment, interest, and necessity. It was also noted that the motivations for academic scholarship have changed with increased internal and external pressures and a drive to publish in certain journals.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Research limitations/implications</jats:title> <jats:p>This is a novel study not undertaken previously in the entrepreneurship discipline. The results will inform research practices within the entrepreneurship discipline and represent the basis for an ongoing large scale global quantitative study of the entrepreneurship discipline.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title> <jats:p>The outcomes of this research inform higher education stakeholders in the construction of valid research strategies thus providing a suitable impact upon academia and society. It provides an initial insight into drivers for academic research within the entrepreneurship discipline, and the opportunities, challenges and paradoxes which various approaches to research contribution entail.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

dc.format.extent918-938
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEmerald
dc.titleThe price of everything, and the value of nothing? Stories of contribution in entrepreneurship research
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
plymouth.issue4
plymouth.volume23
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalJournal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/jsbed-03-2016-0049
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA17 Business and Management Studies
dcterms.dateAccepted2016-06-17
dc.rights.embargodate2018-10-24
dc.rights.embargoperiod24 months
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1108/jsbed-03-2016-0049
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2016-10-24
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review


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