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in <strong>the</strong> <strong>aliran</strong> in that <strong>the</strong> sub-<strong>aliran</strong> would be easily identifiable. In some ways this was<br />

possible, but only in a limited manner. For example an ethnic / racial sub-<strong>aliran</strong> could be<br />

identified with articles by authors such as Light, Bonaich etc., be ing significant in this sub-<br />

<strong>aliran</strong>. However in o<strong>the</strong>r areas, while <strong>the</strong>re was as suggestion <strong>of</strong> some form <strong>of</strong> sub-<strong>aliran</strong>,<br />

actually justifying inclusion <strong>of</strong> articles into sub-<strong>aliran</strong> became increasingly illusive. The<br />

identification <strong>of</strong> significant words (not key words) in <strong>the</strong> abstracts or <strong>the</strong> article did assist<br />

in such justification process, however slotting an article into an ontology proved difficult.<br />

The Web <strong>of</strong> Science key word was not used as <strong>of</strong>ten it seemed to vary significantly from<br />

<strong>the</strong> contents <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> article or abstract.<br />

3.2.5.04 This lack <strong>of</strong> ability to clearly delineate sub-<strong>aliran</strong> or ontologies did suggest<br />

that <strong>the</strong> notion <strong>of</strong> ontologies as being un<strong>the</strong>matized [Smith, 2003 and Mulhall, 2005] was<br />

happe ning and that <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>matic process has not occurred in <strong>the</strong> episteme <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>entrepreneurship</strong>. This lack <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>matisation could be as because as per Gruber [1993],<br />

ontological commitment has not taken place or no ‘discontinuities’ have been presented.<br />

However what was also possible was that my own data analysis was not yet suitable and it<br />

was because <strong>of</strong> this that patterns were not emerging.<br />

3.2.5.05 To see if <strong>the</strong>re was any possible way to detect any pattern I fur<strong>the</strong>r analysed<br />

a random selection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> citations to see which journals carried articles that cited <strong>the</strong><br />

original article citations. This analysis was primarily to see whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>re was any distinct<br />

pattern and a suggestion <strong>of</strong> any inter-relationship between journals. There was a possible<br />

pattern in areas such as ethnic ontologies to <strong>entrepreneurship</strong>, as can be seen in Graphic 3g<br />

in which <strong>the</strong> journals citing LIGHT I, 1972, ETHNIC ENTERPRISE AM, T do tend<br />

towards a similar ontology. However this pattern was all that I perceived with my random<br />

attempt, although fur<strong>the</strong>r research may reveal some form <strong>of</strong> pattern emerging.<br />

3.2.5.06 To a certain degree I was limited in this analysis as I did not have a clear<br />

frame <strong>of</strong> reference for identifying <strong>the</strong> sub-<strong>aliran</strong> <strong>of</strong> ontologies, from which to work. The<br />

search for <strong>the</strong> ontology <strong>of</strong> <strong>entrepreneurship</strong> is described and discussed in section 4.2. It<br />

involved firstly attempting to apply an ontological frame <strong>of</strong> reference developed by<br />

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