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Krieweth, C., Kruse, S., Short, J. C., Schrameier, L. R. M., & Brettel, M. (2026). Replication Studies in Entrepreneurship: Mapping Current Efforts and Identifying Future Opportunities. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587261415935

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Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️✨

There is something quietly brave about a field that turns back on itself and asks, did we really get it right? Not did we publish it, not did we celebrate it, not did we cite it into importance, but did it hold? Did the evidence stay standing when the applause faded? 📚🔍

Today, we step into that uneasy and necessary conversation through a fascinating new research brief titled, Replication Studies in Entrepreneurship: Mapping Current Efforts and Identifying Future Opportunities, by Carolin Krieweth, Sebastian Kruse, Jeremy C. Short, Liljan Ruth Maren Schrameier, and Malte Brettel, published online on 01 April 2026 in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 🏛️🔥, one of the most prestigious journals in the field and proudly part of the FT50 journal list.

This paper asks a question that feels technical on the surface, but human at its core. In entrepreneurship research, how often do scholars go back and test what we think we know? The answer, as the authors show with remarkable clarity, is both encouraging and sobering.

Across three decades, they systematically examine 58 replication studies and discover a pattern. Most replications in entrepreneurship do not retrace the original path step by step. Instead, they stretch outward through conceptual extensions and empirical generalizations 🌍🧠. Those are valuable, of course. But exact replications and analysis checks, the kinds of studies that ask whether the original result itself can survive scrutiny, remain surprisingly rare ⚠️

And that matters.

Because a discipline is not only built on imagination. It is built on trust. It is built on whether foundational findings can bear the weight of future theory, future policy, future teaching, and future belief. What Krieweth and colleagues offer here is more than a review. It is a mirror. They show us where replication has clustered, where it has been neglected, and where the next generation of scholars might do some of their most important work. They even identify 33 high-impact empirical studies that deserve renewed verification 🧩📈

This is the kind of article that does not simply summarize a literature. It asks a field to grow up a little, to become more transparent, more documented, more reproducible, and perhaps more honest about what counts as knowledge in the first place.

So in today’s episode, let’s sit with that tension together. In a field built on risk, innovation, and bold ideas, what happens when the boldest move is to go back and check the math, the method, and the meaning? 🤔🎧

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Our sincere thanks to the authors, Carolin Krieweth, Sebastian Kruse, Jeremy C. Short, Liljan Ruth Maren Schrameier, and Malte Brettel, and to Sage Publications for bringing this important work into the world 🙏📘

And now the question that lingers is this: if entrepreneurship prides itself on building the future, how often is it willing to revisit its own past to make sure that future stands? ✨