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Graphic<br />

3a<br />

Bar chart <strong>of</strong> numbers <strong>of</strong> articles published each year in <strong>the</strong> episteme from<br />

1956 to 2006.<br />

3.2.2.05 English was selected as <strong>the</strong> language <strong>of</strong> choice basically because I am<br />

limited to English and <strong>the</strong> Malaysian / Indonesian languages and any qualitative research<br />

on languages with which I was unfamiliar would be pointless. Also very few articles are<br />

published in <strong>the</strong> Malaysian / Indo nesian languages.<br />

3.2.2.06 I selected ‘articles’ because Web <strong>of</strong> Science is a journal articles based<br />

database and, as discussed fur<strong>the</strong>r in <strong>the</strong> next chapter, I considered that journal articles<br />

better reflected <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>entrepreneurship</strong>, ra<strong>the</strong>r than texts / books or newspaper /<br />

magazine articles which could be considered to be from <strong>the</strong> discourse on <strong>entrepreneurship</strong>,<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong>.<br />

3.2.2.07 It was for <strong>the</strong> same reason that I used <strong>the</strong> term ‘<strong>entrepreneurship</strong>’, because I<br />

believe this reflects <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong>. I considered that using <strong>the</strong> search term ‘entrepreneur’<br />

would change <strong>the</strong> focus <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> search to outside <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong>. Preliminary searches<br />

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