Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality

作者：G. Christopher Crawford, Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Casey J. Frid, Thomas E. Nelson, Zahra Booyavi, Diana Hechavarria, Xuanye Li, Paul D. Reynolds, Ehsan Teymourian · 发表于：Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1177/10422587211057422 · 被引用次数：56 · 研究领域：Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences、Private Equity and Venture Capital、Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research

Given that replication studies are important for theory building, theory testing, knowledge accumulation, and domain legitimacy, we attempted to replicate 19 seminal studies of new venture emergence that used PSED-type data; only six attempts were successful. Our humbling experience highlights how changes at the author, journal, and institutional levels—indeed, a communal effort—can encourage, facilitate, and expedite replication studies. We provide entrepreneurship scholars with ten best practices for conducting replication studies, as well as recommendations to other stakeholders to steer away from the replication “crisis” plaguing other research domains. As they say, it takes a village.