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Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship (EBE): A Systematic Approach to Cumulative Science

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2012

The concept and desiderata of an evidence-based entrepreneurship (EBE) is discussed as a strategy to overcome the divide between knowledge developed in the field of entrepreneurship and its use in practice. Evidence constitutes the best summary of knowledge based on several sources of information (several studies, several different research groups, several different methodological approaches, among them the best methods available), all of which go beyond individual experience and isolated studies. We argue that meta-analyses can and should be used in entrepreneurship research (and that it should also be used for qualitative work). Meta-analyses establish certain relationships; these should then be summarized in well-founded models and theories that can be translated into action principles. These action principles can then be used by EBE's constituents. These include scientists, professionals who regularly deal with entrepreneurs (bankers, consultants, venture capital providers), policy makers (e.g., government), students of entrepreneurship, and last but not least the entrepreneurs themselves. Once, a

Evidence-Based Management: The Use of Meta-analysis in Business Studies

International Journal of Academic Management Science Research (IJAMSR), 2021

This study seeks to provide a big picture of meta-analytic activity in Business Studies. The analysis of the publications in Web of Knowledge (WOK)-Business Economics area (BE)-and of the articles published in the Top-10 journals in Business Management area, according to Journal Citation Report de Thomson Reuters (JCR, 2015), show an important and growing up meta-analytic activity in this domain, as well as an unequal interest in this kind of research among the Top-10 journals. It is also observed a lack of guides or standards about meta-analysis in this field of knowledge. The practical implication of this study is to identify the terminology used to facilitate future bibliographic searches, as well as to show new approaches and research gaps in this field.

THE ROLE OF META-ANALYSIS IN MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT

The role of meta-analysis in marketing and management The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the growing interest in meta-analysis in marketing and management literature and to present the methodological approach for researchers who are planning to use meta-analysis in their marketing or management research. The research also highlights limitations and problems to deal with during the study. Today when researchers must face with a growing number of empirical studies in different areas, the importance of empirical generalizations grow up. Meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of a large collection of results from individual studies for the purpose of integrating and combining the findings. It is one of the dominant methods with a purpose to develop an empirical generalization. The increasing interest about meta-analysis is recognized in marketing and management literature where researchers using meta-analysis have examined the influence of advertising on sales, the determinants of sales staff performance, consumer behavior patterns etc. The author of the research provides the methodological description of the method as well as bibliographical study of journals in marketing and management studies, describing examples of meta-analysis usage in marketing and management. Kopsavilkums Meta-analīzes loma mārketingā un vadībzinībās Atslēgvārdi: meta-analīze, mārketings, menedžments, statiskā analīze Raksta mērķis ir ilustrēt pieaugošo interesi par meta-analīzes lietošanu mārketinga un vadības literatūrā, kā arī piedāvāt metodoloģisku skatījumu uz meta analīzi pētniekiem, kas plāno izmantot meta analīzi savos mārketinga vai vadības pētījumos. Rakstā ir apkopoti arī meta-analīzes pielietošanas ierobežojumi un problēmas, ar kurām jāsastopas pētniekiem. Empīriska vispārināuma nozīme dažādās nozarēs pieaug, jo, pateicoties datu bāzēm, ir pieejams ļoti liels skaits empīrisko pētījumu. Meta-analīze ir daudzu empīrisku pētījumu statistiska analīze ar mērķi tos integrēt un apvienot atsevišķo pētījumu rezultātus. Tā ir viena no galvenām metodēm literatūras empīriskam vispārinājumam. Pieaugošā interese par meta-analīzes izmantošanu ir vērojama arī mārketinga un menedžmenta literature, piemēram, pētnieki to izmanto, lai novērtētu reklāmas ietekmi uz pārdošanu, pētītu patērētāja uzvedības modeļus, analizētu pārdošanā iesaistītā personāla darbību u.c. Raksta autore piedāvā gan metodoloģisku metodes rakstorojumu, gan mārketinga un menedžmenta pētījumu pārskatu, kuru pamatā ir meta analīzes lietošana.

A Review and Evaluation of Meta-Analysis Practices in Management Research

Journal of Management, 2008

Meta-analysis has become increasingly popular in management research to quantitatively integrate research findings across a large number of studies. In an effort to help shape future applications of meta-analysis in management, this study chronicles and evaluates the decisions that management researchers made in 69 meta-analytic studies published between 1980 and 2007 in 14 management journals. It performs four meta-analyses of relationships that have been studied with varying frequency in management research, to provide empirical evidence that meta-analytical decisions influence results. The implications of the findings are discussed with a focus on the changes that seem appropriate.

Meta-analysis for marketing research

The aim of this paper is to present and illustrate the procedure to follow when a researcher wants to use meta-analysis in marketing research. Meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of a large collection of results from individual studies for the purpose of integrating the findings. Meta-analysis offers new opportunities for integrating and combining the contradictory outcomes of studies and for analyzing variance in effect sizes across findings.

Meta-Analytical Validity of the Social Entrepreneurship Inventory: A Study of Random Effect Sizes

2019

The meta-analytic validity understood as the evidence of homogeneity demonstrated through parameters that measure the normal distribution, sum of total effects and proportions of differences between the studies consulted was the objective of the present work. A metaanalytical study was conducted with a selection of sources indexed to international repositories, considering the publication period from 2015 to 2019. The meta-analytical threshold of predictive confidence was established, although the research design limited the findings of heterogeneity to the study sample, suggesting the extension of the work towards indexed sources and publications prior to that observed.

Meta-Analysis: A Discussion On Finance Studies

Nowadays, both the increase of technological opportunities and the globalization of information have also affected the quality and scope of scientific researches positively. Significant progress has been made in this direction. An important development of this process is the development of complex results with increasing research on specific subjects. Even though the subjects of the studies in finance as a social sciences are the same, complex results emerge. In this case, the efforts made in finance should be brought together to simplify and to produce more comprehensible results. This is also necessary for the scientific findings to turn the observed phenomena into an explanatory quality. Meta-analysis analyzes these complex results and plays a synthesizing role with the statistical methods used. The aim of this study is to talk about the meta-analysis process and to discuss the meta-analysis method in the finance field.

META-ANALYSIS IN MARKETING

Meta-analysis is a method that seeks to aggregate, integrate, and adjust results from previous studies, while considering the different conditions in which the original studies were investigated. The expected benefit is demonstration of the association between one or more variables, and generation of a systematic review and integration of studies. Hence, in the meta-analysis, the researcher can present broad evidence for or against a given theory. This study discusses the methodological and structural aspects of the organization of meta-analytical investigations in marketing. In addition, this paper suggests eight steps to organize the data and interpret the results. Lastly, we discuss the implications of the formulas and the corrections of the effects, as well as proposing paths for investigations that use meta-analysis in marketing.