Mitigating theoretical and coverage biases in the design of theory-building research: An example from international entrepreneurship

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 399-417

  Ţurcan, Romeo V ^a   Mäkelä, Markus M ^b   Sørensen, Olav J ^a   Rönkkö, Mikko ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Building theory; Coverage bias; De internationalisation; International entrepreneurship; Theoretical bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249249299     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-009-0122-7     Document Type: Article

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