This seminal work will appeal to entrepreneurship researchers, both those new to the field as well as seasoned veterans, who want to learn more about the tools that can be used to generate new knowledge about new ventures and other entrepreneurship topics.

Chapter 1: Theorizing And Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 2: Me-Search For Generating Ideas for Entrepreneurial Theorizing.- Chapter 3: Anthropomorphizing for Entrepreneurial Theorizing.- Chapter 4: Managing Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurial Theorizing.- Chapter 5: Writing Entrepreneurial-Theorizing Outcomes.- Chapter 6: A Lean Approach to Entrepreneurial Theorizing.

This open access book investigates an entrepreneurial approach to building new theories. It provides a rich understanding of how specific tools facilitate aspects of the theorizing process and offers a clearer big picture of the process of building important new entrepreneurship theories. The authors show that anthropomorphizing has been a critically important tool for developing influential entrepreneurship theories. They reveal how scholars build on their rich and highly accessible understanding of humans (i.e., the self and others) to make guesses and sense of entrepreneurial anomalies, articulate theoretical mechanisms to build more robust entrepreneurship theories, and create plausible stories that facilitate sensegiving. Further, they offer a frameworkthat guides entrepreneurship scholars in finding a balance to maximize their contributions and guides reviewers and editors in managing the revise-and-resubmit process to advance the entrepreneurship field. Finally, they present lean scholarship as an approach to developing a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. Lean scholarship starts with an entrepreneurial mindset and involves creating a minimum viable paper, exploring its validity, adding a plausible paper to one’s portfolio, and managing the portfolio by periodically deciding whether to persevere, pivot, or terminate each paper. This seminal work will appeal to entrepreneurship researchers, both those new to the field as well as seasoned veterans, who want to learn more about the tools that can be used to generate new knowledge about new ventures and other entrepreneurship topics.Dean A. Shepherd is the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University, USA. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Venturing and has published over 180 scholarly journal articles and 23 books on entrepreneurship.Holger Patzelt is Chair in Entrepreneurship at the School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is currently an Associate Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.  His research interests include entrepreneurial cognition and economic, emotional and psychological consequences of failure.

Addresses fundamental questions to explain how to generate, pursue, and publish new entrepreneurship theories Focuses on the mindset, decisions, and practices of entrepreneurship scholars Presents a coherent framework and process for engaging in entrepreneurship research and building new theories This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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