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

of sub-aliran and suitable presentation methods. However the development of the
heffalump described above began to suggest an approach that did not involve slotting
articles into a sub-aliran or ontology, that had proved difficult. The representation of the
heffalump suggested that it may be the attempt to slot the articles into an ontology that was
problematic, whereas what may be feasible was instead positioning the article in
relationship to the interstices between the ontologies. Given the model developed in
Graphic 2h the more subjective nature of the discipline meant that the ontologies were not
strongly defined and the relationship of the sub-aliran together with the interstices
suggested a different approach. This approach was undertaken and the results generated are
discussed in the third chapter to the following Part Four on Empirics. The method in this
approach involved reviewing the 476 texts and articles in the aliran and is described in
section 4.2.3.06.
3.2.5.08 Part of the hermeneutic app roach that is developed in Part Four is
determining the level of overt construction in the various sub-aliran that I am taking to be
the ontologies in the discipline. As Schmidt [2006, p102] discusses: “The task of
hermeneutic understanding is to differentiate the legitimate prejudices from all of the
illegitimate ones that need to be criticized and dropped”. Once I had resolved the issues of
ontological ide nt ification through greater use of the interstices then such process of
differentiation became substantially easier. The heffalump mode l I developed became
something of a basis against which such construction could be compared to determine
overt-ness. The results of the hermeneutic examination, as will be discussed in Part Four,
did reveal some weaknesses in the heffalump model that meant that the model did need to
be revised. These revisions, as will be discussed in Part Five, did actually contribute to a
greater unde rstanding of the value of the heffalump mode l and its application to the
evolution of the discipline.
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