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Lean scholarship

delete2022-04-27
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Dean A. Shepherd *
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Holger Patzelt
DOI:10.1007/s11187-022-00627-4delete
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Plain English Summary Entrepreneurship scholars can form an entrepreneurial mindset to build and manage a portfolio of papers to enhance their research impact. They can do this by creating representations of paper ideas, exploring the viability of those ideas with potential audience members, and either improving the idea for journal publication or terminating the idea and focusing on other paper ideas that show more promise. Thus, the principal implication of this study is that entrepreneurship researchers (especially those constrained by time or financial pressures) can engage in lean scholarship to maximize their use of valuable resources to produce a stream of high-quality, high-impact papers. We offer lean scholarship as an approach to developing a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. By lean scholarship, we refer to iterative experimentation, stakeholder engagement, and collective learning in the process of generating a portfolio of papers. Lean scholarship starts with an entrepreneurial mindset and involves creating a minimum viable paper, exploring its validity, and adding a plausible paper to one's portfolio. Lean scholarship requires managing the portfolio by periodically deciding whether to persevere, pivot, or terminate each paper.
Keywords:
Lean scholarship
Entrepreneurial mindset
Minimum viable paper
Portfolio of papers
High impact research

Journal

Small Business Economics cover
Small Business Economics
IF:
4.8
Papers:
3.5K
Citations:
1.5W

Organization

U
University of Notre Dame
Scholars:
1.2W
Papers: 1.1W
Citations: 1.7W
T
Technical University of Munich
Scholars:
5.2W
Papers: 3.9W
Citations: 6.2W