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

distinguish between the term ‘corporate’ and corporation as well as creating a further
model that shows the relationship of size and shape to the ‘entrepreneurial firm’.
4.3.02 The gender sub-aliran is presented as a minor sub-aliran followed by a critical
appraisal of the ethnic / immigrant sub-aliran. The final section in this chapter looks at the
strategic entrepreneurship sub-aliran which I perceive to be a new frontier in the aliran
and one that could well resolve some of the de finitional and ontological issues that have
been discussed to date.
4.3.03 Throughout the discussions the heffalump mode l that I have de velope d a nd s hown
in Graphic 4j is used as the reference point. As per my earlier discussions it becomes
increasingly apparent that the interstices between the domains shown in this model are
very significant. A pattern emerges with domains that appear to be more extroverted by
having a greater range of interstices and those that are considered more introverted, with
fewer interstices, and subsequently less developed.
4.3.03 Note that the citation reference in this Part used for articles/ texts from the aliran
have the [year] followed by (gravitas). This is done to include an element of ‘weightiness’
to the reference.
4.3.1 Pinpointing the emergence
4.3.1.00 To pick a time for the emergence of a discipline is probably not possible, or
would be presumptuous to attempt to do so. However, what is possible is to identify
articles with high gravitas that are markers of the emergent discipline. This is not to say
that the first article mentioning entrepreneurship is the first marker, as without epistemic
justification this first article may reside in the discourse rather than the discipline of
entrepreneurship.
4.3.1.01 According to Foucault [2003a], and discussed in Part Two, “the
disciplinarization of knowledges, this organization of knowledges into disciplines” began
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