Achieving Empirical Progress in an Undefined Field
通过调查新兴实证领域发现，这些领域通常在不达成定义共识的情况下，通过缩小研究人群范围加速实证进展，并探讨了创业研究如何通过形式化抽样标准来实现聚焦。
Investigators’ practice of sampling from different populations has hindered the progress of empirical entrepreneurship research. Reaching agreement on a narrowed definition of the field would allegedly resolve the problem. However, this paper reports on a survey of emerging empirical fields that Indicates that such fields typically narrow the range of populations they consider, and achieve an acceleration in empirical progress, without a consensus on the definition of the field. The paper therefore investigates how empirical research in entrepreneurship might become constructively focussed through an alternative approach: formalizing the criteria that Investigators use in selecting their samples.