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If your registration for this course is successful you will registered automatically for the course Qualitative Research Methods - Lecture - V (Sünje von Helldorff, Matthias Wenzel).

The registration is restricted to the following fields or courses of study:

• Leuphana Bachelor / Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship / alle Semester
• Sozialpädagogik/Wirtschaftspädagogik / Berufliche Fachrichtung Wirtschaftswissenschaften (ab Studienbeginn WiSe 22/23) / alle Semester
• Sozialpädagogik/Wirtschaftspädagogik / Berufliche Fachrichtung Wirtschaftswissenschaften (bis Studienbeginn WiSe 21/22) / alle Semester
• Leuphana Bachelor / Major Studium Individuale / alle Semester
• Leuphana Bachelor / Minor Studium Individuale / alle Semester

This course offers students a basic introduction to qualitative research methods. In this tutorial, students come together at Leuphana and discuss the online lecture's content in more detail. The students will conduct their qualitative research projects exploring "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems", and we will have time to answer questions and look at published studies as examples of how to conduct qualitative research.

A primary goal of this tutorial is advancing students' research projects, which will make up 70% of the final grade. The research projects are group-based projects of about three students. The students will conduct their qualitative study and present interim results within this tutorial (30% of final grade). While the students themselves will develop their individual research questions, the broader focus of this seminar will be on 'Entrepreneurial Ecosystems'. Students are asked to interview people for their research projects and maybe even collect further qualitative data, if applicable. The online lecture will be used to discuss current challenges, and the students will apply the lecture's theoretical constructs in practice.

Next to psychological and social factors that shape entrepreneurship, the environment, specifically the ‘ecosystem,’ is vital for the process and outcome of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial ecosystems consist of interacting actors and factors relevant to entrepreneurship in a specific territory. Stam and Van de Ven (2021) propose an entrepreneurial ecosystem model of institutions and resources with ten mutually interdependent and measurable elements: formal institutions, culture, networks, physical infrastructure, demand, intermediaries, talent, knowledge, leadership, and finance. Exploring entrepreneurial ecosystems is essential to identify ecosystems' strengths and weaknesses and consider mechanisms to further desirable developments. Ideally, the output of the ecosystem is some value creation or ‘productive entrepreneurship’ (Audretsch et al. 2021; Stam and Van de Ven 2021). Thus, scholars have investigated entrepreneurial ecosystems in regions or cities emphasizing stimulating high growth (Audretsch et al. 2021; Stam and Van de Ven 2021). However, sustainable entrepreneurship solves societal and environmental problems (Schaltegger and Wagner 2011) and needs different institutions and relations (Volkmann et al. 2021) than entrepreneurship aiming at profit maximization and growth. What kind of entrepreneurial ecosystem is conducive to entrepreneurship for sustainable development? What dynamics unfold in entrepreneurial ecosystems? What are the drivers and barriers to impact creation in the entrepreneurial ecosystem? All these and many more are questions we can explore using qualitative methods.

After completion of the course, students shall be able to:
- know about the difference between qualitative and quantitative research and be able to identify when to use a qualitative approach
- know about a research design and the different approaches of conducting a qualitative research
-analyze qualitative data with the help of computer software
- reflect on quality criteria of qualitative research

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