Purpose Qualitative research has gained in importance in the social sciences. General
knowledge about qualitative data analysis, how to code qualitative data and decisions …

Purpose Within a very short period of time, the worldwide pandemic triggered by the novel
coronavirus has not only claimed numerous lives but also caused severe limitations to daily …

The Covid‐19 crisis has hit SMEs particularly hard. Numerous business models (BM) have
been limited or rendered downright impossible due to decreased social contact. SMEs can …

Diverse perspectives and ideas among senior leaders (top management teams and boards
of directors) might generate substantial value for organizations. In theory, such diversity …

The flexible pattern matching approach has witnessed increasing popularity. By combining
deduction with induction in logic, flexible pattern matching is well suited for exploration and …

This editorial aims to advance the use of qualitative research methods when studying
entrepreneurship. First, it outlines four characteristics of the domain of entrepreneurship that …

Drawing from the social study of the gig economy and platform labour and from the
sociology of risk, this article explores how on-demand food couriers in Edinburgh, Scotland …

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are receiving heightened attention from scholars and
practitioners. Studies have focused on isolating entrepreneurial ecosystems' components; …

Big Data (BD) has the potential to 'disrupt'the senior management of organisations,
prompting directors to make decisions more rapidly and to shape their capabilities to …

In this article, we provide guidelines that are useful to family business researchers when
deciding whether and how to use case studies as well as to reviewers and editors when …