Moving forward quantitative research on innovation management: a call for an inductive turn on using and presenting quantitative research

Whereas innovation scholars have mainly relied on survey designs, secondary data and experiments to engage in deductive theory‐testing research, I highlight that quantitative data can also be viable sources to induce theoretical insights into emerging innovation phenomena. In this paper, I discuss how scholars can use quantitative data for inductive innovation management research. First, I point to quantitative data as viable complements to...