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An elite perspective on interviewing entrepreneurs – methodological considerations for the entrepreneurship field
Kraus, Patrick Stokes, Peter Moore, Neil Ashta, Ashok Britzelmaier, Bernd Jürgen
Kraus, Patrick
Stokes, Peter
Moore, Neil
Ashta, Ashok
Britzelmaier, Bernd Jürgen
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2023-07-27
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Purpose: Elite interviewing is a well-established area of interview research methods. Nevertheless, the actual casting of an “elite” has been generally conducted in a prima facie or broad manner. A consideration of entrepreneurs and owner-managers as “elites” has been less profiled and received less attention, therefore the paper views the entrepreneurs and owner-managers as constituting a form of “local elite” within given and varying sectorial, regional and community boundaries. The authors argue that a consideration of entrepreneurs as “local elites” and transferring knowledge from an elite interviewing perspective may strongly support scholarly research in the entrepreneurship field.
Design/methodology/approach: The study conducts a comprehensive narrative literature review of elite interviewing literature and transfers key methodological insights to the entrepreneurship field. The methodological contribution based on literature is complemented by experiences and observations from an extensive inductive interview study with over 30 entrepreneurs of German manufacturing Small and Medium-sized Entities (SMEs) and are used to reflect on, and refine, interview research approaches with entrepreneurs.
Findings: The reflections and discussions in this paper provide valuable insights for other researchers conducting research in entrepreneurship domains regarding the power dynamics of negotiating access, procedural issues of interviews and thereby enhancing the quality of data.
Originality/value: The contribution to knowledge is mainly of a methodological nature. While the paper takes a novel act of recasting elite interviewing in the SME and entrepreneurship context, the paper methodologically contributes to the entrepreneurship and elite interview literature thereby facilitating higher quality interviews.
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Kraus, P., Stokes, P., Moore, N., Ashta, A., & Britzelmaier, B. J. (2023). An elite perspective on interviewing entrepreneurs – methodological considerations for the entrepreneurship field. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 30(5), 857–879. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-12-2022-0492
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Emerald
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Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
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©Patrick Kraus, Peter Stokes, Neil Moore, Ashok Ashta and Bernd Jurgen Britzelmaier. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited.
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1462-6004
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1758-7840
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