Minha Ideia de Negócio: Qualitative Action Research for Low-Income Entrepreneurship

Joao Severo produced this qualitative collection for the Journal of Contemporary Administration to document the development of the Minha Ideia de Negócio (MIN) tool. It contains interview scripts, focus group transcriptions, field notes, and participant artifacts from action research interventions with low-income entrepreneurs. The materials were finalized in February 2026 to support the replication of the MIN methodological process.

Use Cases

• Analyzing anonymized transcriptions to identify entrepreneurial challenges in low-income contexts
• Studying Miro exports and participant artifacts to evaluate collaborative business modeling techniques
• Comparing preliminary and final versions of the MIN tool to understand social innovation design iterations

Strengths

• Contains raw anonymized transcriptions from primary focus groups and interviews
• Includes researcher field notes and Miro workshop exports documenting the design process
• Provides both preliminary and final versions of the MIN tool for comparative analysis

Limitations

• Small sample size inherent to qualitative action research
• Geographic bias toward the specific low-income communities where the interventions occurred
• Lack of structured tabular data for quantitative analysis

Provenance

Source

Journal of Contemporary Administration (RAC) Dataverse

Collection Method

Action research involving interviews, focus groups, and collaborative workshops.

Freshness

Last updated February 2026