Methods & Research Design (jbv-methods)

When to trigger

• You are choosing a design and unsure which fits a venture-creation question
• The design may not let you observe the entrepreneurial process you theorize
• A reviewer flags selection into entrepreneurship, survivorship bias, or sample novelty
• You are weighing qualitative process work, experiments, archival venture panels, or mixed methods

JBV is methodologically pluralistic — but theory-first

JBV prizes a clear, substantive theoretical contribution to entrepreneurship over any single method. Well-executed qualitative, conceptual, quantitative, and mixed-method studies are equally welcomed; the unifying demand is that the work advance theory about the entrepreneurial phenomenon, not merely apply a method. Choose the design that can actually test or build your theory: