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

work. However, it may be that for academic ‘ease’, ideas are attributed to one source,
whereas a wider literature review may reveal other sources, including those in the lineage
of that idea.
3.1.2.07 This section has moved the methodological focus from Foucauldian discourse
analys is and archaeology towards Husserl’s phenomenological archaeology. In the next
section I discuss the next part of this process, where phenomenology a nd hermeneutics are
used together.
3.1.3 Phenomenology and hermeneutics
3.1.3.00 This section introd uces the two step process of firstly using phenomenological
method (as a ‘concept of method’ [Heidegger, 1993, p72]) followed by an hermeneutic
analysis of the data derived from such method.
3.1.3.01 To attempt to apply the research findings of the disciplinic episteme from the
Web of Science database on entrepreneurship, selected for the research, to the discourse on
entrepreneurship as a whole could have been to follow the scenario described by Gartner
[2001] where researchers into entrepreneurship were perceived to be describing parts of the
elephant and attributing that part to the whole. My research is intended to initially present
the episteme ‘as it is’.
3.1.3.02 The idea of presenting the episteme ‘as it is’ suggested, within the emergent
methodology, that a phenomenological approach may be justified.
Phenomenology declares that philosophy must start by carefully describing
experience without incorporating any presuppositions about the meaning of the that
experience. Husserl’s maxim ‘to the things themselves’ means that philosophy
must return to a pure description of the things themselves as they are experienced
[Schmidt, 2006, pp49-50].
3.1.3.03 The origin of the term phenomenon means ‘what shows itself in itself’
[Schmidt, 2006, p61]. Gartner’s description of researchers into entrepreneurship describing
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