Collecting retrospective data: Accuracy of recall after 50 years judged against historical records

Berney, Lee; Blane, David

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(97)00088-9

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“…In particular, we see entrepreneurial failure as akin to the critical experiences identified by Chell (2004) and participants generally have good recall of these experiences. Indeed, research shows that some information recalled after long periods of time (up to 50 years) is still very accurate (Berney and Blane, 1997). …”

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Failed, not finished: A narrative approach to understanding venture failure stigmatization

Singh

Corner

Pavlovich

2015

Journal of Business Venturing

185

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This paper implements a qualitative, narrative approach to investigate entrepreneurs' personal experience of stigma associated with venture failure. Findings draw on the lived experience of 12 entrepreneurs and tell a collective story of how stigma affects entrepreneurs, shapes their actions, and engenders outcomes for them and their ventures. The story covers three episodes of entrepreneurs anticipating, meeting, and then transforming venture failure. Overall the paper shifts the focus of stigma research from the socio-cultural perspective pervading research to date, to micro level processes underlying socio-cultural trends. Findings offer unexpected insights into failure stigmatization. First, findings suggest stigmatization is best viewed as a process that unfolds over time rather than a label. Second, this process begins before, not after, failure and contributes to venture demise. Third, there is a positive ending to the collective story in that stigmatization ultimately triggers epiphanies or deep personal insights which transform entrepreneurs' view of failure from a very negative to a positive life experience. This transformation results in entrepreneurs distributing learning from failure to the founding of future ventures, even when ventures are not their own.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Failed, not finished: A narrative approach to understanding venture failure stigmatization

Singh

Corner

Pavlovich

2015

Journal of Business Venturing

185

169

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“…Most people report their own and their parents' occupations correctly many years later (Berney and Blane, 1997), but recall of past asbestos exposure shows poor reproducibility at re-interview (Holmes and Garshick, 1991). A recent study of plumbers showed that many do not recognise the friable asbestos materials that they still sometimes encounter (Bard and Burdett, 2007).…”

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Occupational, domestic and environmental mesothelioma risks in the British population: a case–control study

et al. 2009

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We obtained lifetime occupational and residential histories by telephone interview with 622 mesothelioma patients (512 men, 110 women) and 1420 population controls. Odds ratios (ORs) were converted to lifetime risk (LR) estimates for Britons born in the 1940s. Male ORs (95% confidence interval (CI)) relative to low-risk occupations for 410 years of exposure before the age of 30 years were 50.0 (25.8 -96.8) for carpenters (LR 1 in 17), 17.1 (10.3 -28.3) for plumbers, electricians and painters, 7.0 (3.2 -15.2) for other construction workers, 15.3 (9.0 -26.2) for other recognised high-risk occupations and 5.2 (3.1 -8.5) in other industries where asbestos may be encountered. The LR was similar in apparently unexposed men and women (B1 in 1000), and this was approximately doubled in exposed workers' relatives (OR 2.0, 95% CI 1.3 -3.2). No other environmental hazards were identified. In all, 14% of male and 62% of female cases were not attributable to occupational or domestic asbestos exposure. Approximately half of the male cases were construction workers, and only four had worked for more than 5 years in asbestos product manufacture. (Hodgson et al, 2005), or about 1 in 170 of all deaths. Substantial exposure to asbestos dust continued until about 1970 in parts of the asbestos industry, and until the early 1980s in the much larger workforce in construction and other occupations in which asbestos lagging was applied or asbestos insulation board (AIB) was sawn. The death rate is still increasing above 60 years of age, but the reduction in asbestos use since the mid-1970s has been followed 20 years later by a rapid fall in the number of mesothelioma deaths at 35 -49 years of age in British men

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“…To counter the difficulty of recalling events over very long periods, previous studies incorporated age-appropriate, memorable 'flashbulb' events (Berney and Blane, 1997: 1521), such as world wars and the Coronation into a time-line based on dates (Parry et al, 1999: 2.7). We hypothesised that for young adults, not only were such events irrelevant, but that ages rather than dates would be more appropriate.…”

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Young people, biographical narratives and the life grid: young people’s accounts of parental substance use

Wilson

Cunningham‐Burley

Bancroft

et al. 2007

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Research into potentially sensitive issues with young people presents numerous methodological and ethical challenges. While recent studies have highlighted the advantages of task-based activities in research with young people, the literature on life history research provides few suggestions as to effective and appropriate research tools for encouraging young people to tell their stories. This paper explores the contribution that may be made to such research by the life grid, a visual tool for mapping important life events against the passage of time and prompting wideranging discussion. Critical advantages of the life grid in qualitative research include: its visual element which can help to engage interviewer and interviewee in a process of constructing and reflecting on a concrete life history record; its role in creating a more relaxed research encounter supportive of the respondent's 'voice'; and facilitating the discussion of sensitive issues. In addition, the way in which use of the grid anchors such narratives in accounts of everyday life, often revealing interesting tensions, is explored. These points are discussed with reference to an exploratory study of young people's experience of parental substance use.

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Collecting retrospective data: Accuracy of recall after 50 years judged against historical records

Cited by 301 publications

References 19 publications

Failed, not finished: A narrative approach to understanding venture failure stigmatization

Failed, not finished: A narrative approach to understanding venture failure stigmatization

Occupational, domestic and environmental mesothelioma risks in the British population: a case–control study

Young people, biographical narratives and the life grid: young people’s accounts of parental substance use

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