In this reflective scholarly essay, Andreas Kuckertz introduces the concept of scholarly prospecting – the deliberate practice of identifying and interpreting ambiguous observations from the world of entrepreneurship. Drawing on personally significant episodes, he develops five sensitizing heuristics: irritations, blind spots, contradictions, ruptures, and polarisation.
These heuristics encourage researchers to question established perspectives, explore puzzling observations, and reflect on the limitations of their current understanding. In doing so, scholarly prospecting can serve as a starting point for insightful research that advances our understanding of entrepreneurship.
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