Heuristic meta-analysis on the contribution of the Finnish entrepreneurship education dissertations
Kyrö Paula; Hytti Ulla
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042714664
Tiivistelmä
In this article, we provide a heuristic meta-analysis of entrepreneurship education dissertations completed in Finland before the end of 2012. We hope that this will mark the boundaries of current research and pave the way for Finnish entrepreneurship education research for years to come. The interest in meta-analyses and meta-syntheses is growing in many fields of study (Sandelowski & al., 1997, Eisend, 2009, Tranfield et al., 2003, Hoon, 2013), and they target an accumulation of knowledge based on existing studies. The major problem yet to be resolved is developing systematic approaches in order to accumulate knowledge in ways that maintain the integrity of individual studies. Keeping in mind both of these needs, we apply a still rare heuristic meta-analysis to compile a synthesis of the Finnish dissertations in order to find new and interesting questions for the future. We hope that our heuristic meta-analysis will also help to resolve a dilemma typical of all meta-analyses, that is, how to simultaneously explore new avenues and ask new questions while advancing the shared understanding of the scientific community by retrospectively analysing previous studies.
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- Rinnakkaistallenteet [19206]