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

4.2.1.06 These seemed to suggest some form of basic ontology towards
entrepreneurship. Yet in a question posed to the course students, mention of ‘process
approach to studying entrepreneurship’ were included.
8. Explain what is meant by each of the following schools of thought
approach to studying entrepreneurship:
a) macro
1) environmental
2) financial / capital
3) displacement
b) micro
4) entrepreneurial trait
5) venture opportunity
6) strategic formulation
9. E xplain what is meant by each of the following t ypes of the process appr oach to
studying entrepreneurship:
a) events approach
b) assessment approach
c) multidimensional approach
[www. courses.dsu.edu/entre/oldstuff/Guides/unit1.htm]
4.2.1.07 The course text was ‘Entrepreneurship’, 4th Ed., Hisrich and Peters [1998] yet
my research showed that the above approaches did not seem to be part of those author s’
recognised thinking. I finally traced the macro and micro approaches to Kuratko and
Hod gett's [2001]. To da te I have not been able to find the source of the process approaches
to entrepreneurship. The thinking is compatible with work by Kirzner [1997] or from
Bhave [1994], yet the exact source still eludes me. The course was conducted by John
(Jack) Walters, however Prof James Janke also previously conducted this course. Enquiries
to Dakota State University have not yielded replies.
4.2.1.08 I tended to like this nine-fold ontology because it covers not only most of the
fields for entrepreneurship in particular but also the approaches taken. A good rule of
thumb I use is to look at ethnic entrepreneurship, which under a subject based illustration
falls under race / ethnicity, yet which ontologically can fall into both cultural, as in an
environment, or immigrant, as displacement. Displacement also covers those, not
necessarily with an ethnic slant, who go into entrepreneurship because they may have been
fired from their jobs and seek self-employment. Entry into entrepreneurship can be where
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