Mapping the aliran of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship: A ...

Part Three : Methodology and Methods
3.1 Methodology
3.1.1 Position Statement
3.1.2 Foucauldian discourse analysis?
3.1.3 Phenomenology and hermeneutics
3.1.4 Mixed theories – justifying the lineage used
3.1.5 Time, three dimensionality and application issues
3.2 Data Collection Processes
3.2.1 The Web of Science episteme
3.2.2 Data collection processes – applying phenomenology
3.2.3. Analysis techniques and table layout
3.2.4 Problems encountered
3.2.5 Hermeneutics – developing the aliran
3.0 In t he ‘position statement’ I outline in the first section of 3.1, I distinguish between
methodology and data collection processes. In particular I find that the traditional
qualitative / quantitative distinction is, to my way of thinking, not necessarily the only
way, nor the preferred way, to look at methodology and data collection processes for this
study. This distinction forms the basis to Part Three in that a discussion on methodo logy
and methods that I use in this investigation forms the first section to this part. A discussion
on the data collection processes I use forms the second section to this part along with the
development of the episteme and the aliran. The style of presentation attempts to capture
the emergent characteristic of the methodology, data collection and data analysis being
used in this investigation by describing the way in which this developed during the
literature search and the initial stages of the investigation.
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