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Hans Landström

Professor emeritus

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The rigour-relevance debate : strategies to avoid creating an ivory tower in entrepreneurship research1

Author

  • Hans Landström

Editor

  • Eddy Laveren
  • Robert Blackburn
  • Ulla Hytti
  • Hans Landström

Summary, in English

Traditionally entrepreneurship and small business research has been regarded as a practical and relevant research field, providing knowledge to be used to solve various societal problems. As the field is becoming more and more institutionalized in the academic system, scientific rigour in research has been emphasized at the expense of relevance. In the chapter the authors strives to show that producing research with practical relevance does not conflict with the production of scientifically rigorous research. On the contrary, it is important that the implications formulated for external stakeholders are well rooted in rigorous scientific research.

Department/s

  • Entrepreneurship

Publishing year

2019-01-01

Language

English

Pages

18-28

Publication/Series

Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Research, Resources and Outcomes Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Business Administration

Status

Published

Research group

  • Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781789903980
  • ISBN: 9781789903973