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Preparing the Terrain for Empirical Testing

In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

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  • Héctor O. Rocha

    (IAE Business School)

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This book aims to investigate the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, and on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development at the regional level. Based on the policy and academic interest in clusters and entrepreneurship, Chapter 1 formulated the research questions to guide this inquiry. These research questions also provided the unit and level of analysis (Chapter 1), guided the literature review and theoretical elaboration (Chapter 2), and set the basis for building the model and formulating the hypotheses (Chapter 3) of this research. All of these elements are the criteria used to define the research design of the study, according to the principle that ‘the problem under investigation properly dictates the methods of investigation’ (Trow, 1957: p. 33).

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  • Héctor O. Rocha, 2013. "Preparing the Terrain for Empirical Testing," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, chapter 4, pages 184-215, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-29826-3_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137298263_4
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