Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, using the case of Finnish small business advisors (SBAs), it aims to clarify a controversy in entrepreneurship policy about using public funds to foster solo and micro entrepreneurship. The study reveals the SBAs’ belief systems to...

This chapter’s focus is comparative causal mapping (CCM) methods in MOC research. For a background, the chapter discusses first the conceptual (cognitive theoretic) basis in typical CCM studies and its implications for understanding the target phenomena and for CCM methods. Next, it presents...

1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts in comparative causal mapping -- 3. Comparative causal mapping -- 4. Computerizing CCM with CMAP3 -- 5. From raw data to analyzable output -- 6. Cause map analysis tools in CMAP3 -- 7. CCM research in practice.

Purpose – The paper's first objective is to develop a new conceptual framework for categorizing and designing cognitive, specifically comparative, causal mapping (CCM) research by building upon the theory‐centred and participant‐centred perspectives. The second purpose is to enable the...