Building the evidence-base: Methodological advancement in research on entrepreneurship and well-being

Ana Pérez-Luño; Johan Wiklund; Ute Stephan; Daniel Lerner

doi:10.1177/23409444251338294

Building the evidence-base: Methodological advancement in research on entrepreneurship and well-being

Ana Pérez-Luño
, Johan Wiklund
, Ute Stephan
, Daniel Lerner

Trinity College Dublin
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Syracuse University
King's College London
IE University

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Abstract

For understandable reasons, hitherto most published research on entrepreneurship and well-being has prioritized interesting research questions and the development of theory aimed at understanding the unique well-being challenges in entrepreneurship. With this special issue and editorial, we seek to initiate a conversation on how to enhance the methodological rigor in this area of research to build a more robust and reliable evidence base. We consider why methodologically robust research is needed and the methodological challenges of conducting such research in entrepreneurship in general and on entrepreneurs’ well-being in particular. We also introduce the papers included in this special issue and outline avenues for future research on entrepreneurship and well-being that is methodologically robust while advancing our understanding of entrepreneurs’ well-being in new ways.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	570-580
Number of pages	11
Journal	BRQ Business Research Quarterly
Volume	28
Issue number	3
Early online date	15 May 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/23409444251338294
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2025

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© The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This publication was part of the R+D+i project PID2020-114751RB-I00, aid financed by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship
human resource management
I31
M1
research design
research methods
well-being

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Business and International Management
General Business,Management and Accounting
Economics and Econometrics
Strategy and Management

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