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Unveiling the Unintended: How Historical Research Methods can Enrich Our Understanding of Venture Creation

This paper aims to contribute to the development of a historically constructed methodology for operationalizing the Judgement-Based View of Entrepreneurship developed by Foss and Klein (2012). We combine their framework with a research methodology derived from the works of three historians (Koselleck, 1985; Martin, 2005; Stoler 2008) who argued that researchers should focus on how historical actors envisioned their futures at key junctures. We then outline a framework for historical research on entrepreneurial judgement. This methodology, the Past Futures of Entrepreneurs (PFE), involves the interrogation and triangulation of primary sources to reconstruct how entrepreneurs envisioned the future at critical decision points.