Advancing ET Through Replication (Crawford et al. 2022)| FT50 ETP VSSER25

#VSSER25 #Session1Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, the podcast where we break down cutting-edge academic research, challenge assumptions, and dive into the ideas shaping the future of scholarship. If you’re a researcher, a scholar, or just someone who loves questioning how knowledge is built—this is the place for you.Today, we’re exploring a thought-provoking paper published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, one of the prestigious FT50 journals. The article, “Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality”, is authored by Crawford, Skorodziyevskiy, Frid, Nelson, Booyavi, Hechavarria, Li, Reynolds, and Teymourian, and published by Sage Publishing.Replication is the cornerstone of science. It’s how we test theories, refine ideas, and build a foundation of reliable knowledge. But what happens when replication fails? In this study, the authors attempted to replicate 19 seminal entrepreneurship studies using PSED-type data—and succeeded in only six. That’s not just a challenge. That’s a crisis.This paper reveals the hidden obstacles in replication: methodological ambiguities, missing documentation, and a research culture that too often overlooks the importance of verifying past findings. But it also provides a way forward. The authors propose ten best practices to strengthen replication efforts, urging scholars, journals, and institutions to work together in fostering transparency and rigor in entrepreneurship research. Because, as they put it—it takes a village.A huge thank you to the authors and to Sage Publishing for this crucial contribution to the field.If you found this discussion insightful, don’t forget to subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and check out our YouTube channel, Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts. And if you want to support independent academic content, consider joining us on Patreon.So here’s something to think about: If so much of our research rests on studies that may not be replicable, how much of what we think we know is actually built on shaky ground?ReferenceCrawford, G. C., Skorodziyevskiy, V., Frid, C. J., Nelson, T. E., Booyavi, Z., Hechavarria, D. M., Li, X., Reynolds, P. D., & Teymourian, E. (2022). Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(3), 779-799. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587211057422Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher