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

could be termed cross or inter-disciplina ry and the move ment in these shown over time.
This model could, as is currently increasingly being done for construction mode ls in the
engineering industry, be presented using model design and review software such as
AutoCAD or Navisworks. However the fundamental problem of presenting such
information in an academic dissertation is that the dissertation has to be submitted in two
dimensional paper format. These models could only be incorporated into a dissertation by
means of time limited (i.e. static) cross sectional analyses which defeat the purpose of
having a three dimensional, dynamic mode l in the first place. Ideally, a three dimensional
mod el could be developed, submitted in soft copy, and reviewed as such by supe rvisors
and examiners. The technology is available in the engineering industry for such
presentations, however such technology has yet to reach academia.
3.1.5 03 The aspect of time is significant and I believe that Filion’s list of ontologies,
submitted in section 2.5.4.11, are fundamentally flawed because they lack relevancy to
time. Heidegger’s maxim is that “the central range of problems of all ontology is rooted in
the phenomenon of time correctly viewed and correctly explained” [Heidegger, 1993, p61].
My examina tion of the aliran endeavours to show some aspects of time.
3.1.5 04 While Schultze [2003] has described phenomenology as being qualitative (anti
positivist), I believe that this is not necessarily a prerequisite or fixed rule. Pragmatically,
the function of phenomenology, as per the previous chapter, is to describe something ‘as it
is’. Whether this is done quantitatively or qualitatively is determined by the research
method of the individual researcher. In this research I am using mixed methodology as
well as mixed data collection and data analysis processes. My citation analysis of the
episteme can be described as quantitative as it involves numbers and the initial
development of the aliran the same. However, once I start to identify the sub-aliran as
representational of the ontologies of the discipline I move to analyse the data qualitatively.
Foucault [2004, p202] warns to be careful when distinguishing between scientific domains
and archaeological territories. I am, however, comfortable in the applied
representationality, justified in part by my belief that the discipline of entrepreneurship has
not passed Foucault’s po int of scientificity. My analysis necessarily becomes more
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