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

4.3 The 87,060 aliran of entrepreneurship
4.3.1 Pinpointing the emergence
4.3.2 Fro m d iscourse to discipline
4.3.3 Social entrepreneurship – Barth's forgotten branch
4.3.4 Behaviouralism and methodologies
4.3.5 Innovation sub- aliran – a natural development
4.3.6 Ontological commitment and constructions
4.3.6.1 Corporate entrepreneuring sub-aliran
4.3.6.2 New Ventures and Corporate Venturing sub-aliran
4.3.6.3 Ontological Commitment?
4.3.7 Venture capital sub-aliran – where connaissance meets savoir
4.3.8 Organizations, corporations, firms, small businesses or individuals - the question of size
and shape of entrepreneurship
4.3.8.1 Organizations and organizational learning sub-aliran
4.3.8.2 Corporations, firms and businesses
4.3.8.3 Small businesses and entrepreneurial firms – the issue of size
4.3.8.4. The self-employed individual
4.3.9 Gender – a minor sub-aliran
4.3.10 Ethnic / immigrant sub-aliran
4.3.11 Strategic entrepreneurship – the new frontier?
4.3.00 This chapter looks at the hermeneutic analysis of the aliran starting with pin
pointing what I consider to be the emergence of the discipline. In this chapter I look at the
aliran from a range of domains and in order to have some variety have selected several
sub-aliran which, in my opinion, best illustrate some of the issues that have been discussed
in the previous parts and chapters to this dissertation. Starting from the top of my
heffalump model I first look at social entrepreneurship and how significant the aliran
perceives this to be within the discipline. As behaviouralist methodologies have app arently
been dominant in the early years of the discipline I briefly look at the methodological
sources that receive high or significant gravitas in the aliran. Following on from this, is a
discussion on the construction of the ontologies where I draw compa risons between the
sub-aliran of innovation which I perceive as being a more natural construction and that of
corporate entrepreneurship which construction seems to have been subject to influence by
some high gravitas figures in the discipline.
4.3.01 The venture capital sub-aliran is viewed as one of the few sub-aliran where savoir
and connaissance knowledge are perceived to merge. The issues of size and shape of
entrepreneurship are then discussed with relevance to the sub-aliran of organizations,
organizational learning, small businesses and the self-employed individual. Here I start to
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