Book chapter
Mapping the existing methodological SME and sustainability landscape
Sustainability and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Lessons from Mixed Methods Research, pp.48-67
Routledge, 1st
2021
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Abstract
The literature on business and sustainability has, until recently, not only been dominated by data gathered from large enterprises but also by mono-method approaches, despite being criticised for their lack of methodological rigour and lack of generalisability and/or low response rates; difficulties that may be reduced by combing different methods. Extant literature over the past 20 years in the field of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the environment has been reviewed. Relevant statistics related to the mapping of the methodological landscape in the field, is provided. An identified emergence of mixed methods since the late 1990s is seen as an interesting attempt to bring a more pluralistic methodological approach towards SME and Environment research. The editors further note that the adoption of mixed methods in SME and Environment research does not seem to be limited to Europe where it originated but is now growing across Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Details
- Title
- Mapping the existing methodological SME and sustainability landscape
- Creators
- Aharon Factor - Southern Cross UniversityJohn Parm Ulhøi - Aarhus University
- Contributors
- John P Ulhøi (Editor of compilation) - Aarhus UniversityAharon Factor (Editor of compilation) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Sustainability and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Lessons from Mixed Methods Research, pp.48-67
- Publisher
- Routledge; London, UK
- Edition
- 1st
- Identifiers
- 991013387152302368
- Copyright
- © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Aharon Factor and John Parm Ulhøi; individual chapters, the contributors.
- Academic Unit
- Management; SCU Ventures; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter