etp-methods
Use when designing or defending the research design for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — matching a method to an entrepreneurial question and handling the selection, survivorship, and process-observation problems unique to new ventures.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-methods --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Methods & Research Design (etp-methods) ## When to trigger - You are choosing a design and unsure it can observe the entrepreneurial process you theorize - A reviewer flags selection into entrepreneurship, survivorship bias, or an undocumented sampling frame - The design is cross-sectional but the theory is a venturing *process* - You are weighing inductive qualitative work, experiments, archival venture panels, or mixed methods - Construct validity for an entrepreneurial measure (alertness, effectuation, SEW, passion) is in doubt ## ETP is method-plural but theory-first ETP publishes strong **quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods** work; it has no single preferred method. The constant is that the design must let you **build or test entrepreneurship theory** and that it confronts the inference problems that are *endemic to studying new ventures*. Choose the design that can actually observe the mechanism, then design against the entrepreneurship-specific threats below — these are the things ETP referees reflexively probe. | Entrepreneurial question / claim | Fitting design | |----------------------------------|----------------| | How ventures/opportunities emerge; sensemaki
- When to trigger
- ETP is method-plural but theory-first
- The four threats ETP referees reflexively probe
- Qualitative rigor at ETP
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the etp-methods skill do?
Use when designing or defending the research design for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — matching a method to an entrepreneurial question and handling the selection, survivorship, and process-observation problems unique to new ventures.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill etp-methods --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.