Small business and entrepreneurship research: The way through paradigm incommensurability

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 657-677

  Watkins Mathys, Lorraine ^a   Lowe, Sid ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incommensurability; Interpretivism; Knowledge and wisdom; Paradigmapping; Small business and entrepreneurship research

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944438974     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242605057657     Document Type: Review

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