In a comprehensive and detailed exploration using three perspectives –behavior, practice and process – this Research Handbook demonstrates specific methods for answering that question and provides insights into the implications of pursuing that question.

Contents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Practice and Process 1 William B. Gartner and Bruce T. Teague PART I PERSPECTIVES 2 Expert skills: implications for studying the behavior of entrepreneurs 12 Bruce T. Teague and William B. Gartner 3 Advancing entrepreneurship as practice: previous developments and future possibilities 30 Neil Aaron Thompson and Orla Byrne 4 Entrepreneurial process: mapping a multiplicity of conversations 56 Dimo Dimov PART II METHODS 5 Ethnography’s answer to the plus zone challenge of entrepreneurship 82 R. Duncan M. Pelly and Alain Fayolle 6 Performing affirmation: autoethnography as an activist approach to entrepreneurship 102 Kim Poldner 7 Searching for the roots of entrepreneuring as practice: introducing the enactive approach 138 Bengt Johannisson 8 Practicing participant observations: capturing entrepreneurial practices 168 Malin Tillmar 9 Capturing action from within: the use of personal diaries 182 Elco van Burg and Tomas Karlsson 10 Collecting digital research data through social media platforms: can “scientific social media” disrupt entrepreneurship research methods? 199 Martin Lackéus 11 Perspectives in multilevel research in entrepreneurship 242 Susana C. Santos and António Caetano PART III INSIGHTS 12 Temporality and embodied practice: theorizing the relationality of entrepreneurial events 263 Paul Selden and Denise Fletcher 13 Socially situated entrepreneurial cognition: promising linkage and directions in studying entrepreneurial behavior, practice and process 283 Hamid Vahidnia, Ronald K. Mitchell, J. Robert Mitchell and H. Shawna Chen 14 A longitudinal project of new venture teamwork and outcomes 309 Anna Brattström, Frédéric Delmar, Alan R. Johnson and Karl Wennberg 15 Designing experiential entrepreneurship education based on entrepreneurial practice and behavior 335 Jan P. Warhuus, Helle Neergaard and Claus Thrane Index 361