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Graphic<br />

4r<br />

A 2 x 2 matrix depicting <strong>the</strong> relationship between corporate,<br />

small businesses and <strong>the</strong> entrepreneurial firm<br />

4.3.8.3.06 The main texts and articles in <strong>the</strong> small business sub-<strong>aliran</strong> are listed in<br />

Graphic 4s. As can be seen from <strong>the</strong> list <strong>the</strong>re is a prevalence to interface with o<strong>the</strong>r sub-<br />

<strong>aliran</strong> such as ethnic / immigrant, self / un-employment, gender, etc. I suggest that <strong>the</strong>re<br />

are two reasons for this. Firstly as per Maidique <strong>the</strong> small firm is easier to analyse.<br />

Secondly it is possible that in <strong>the</strong> corporate area <strong>the</strong>re is difficulty to delineate between <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>discipline</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>entrepreneurship</strong> and o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>discipline</strong>s such as management or strategy. The<br />

internal nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> uppe r quadrants in Graphic 4r may be more amenable to an<br />

management interpretation ra<strong>the</strong>r than an entrepreneurial interpretation per se. An example<br />

<strong>of</strong> this could be ethnicity, it may be easier to relate ethnicity / immigrancy to small<br />

businesses ra<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> employment <strong>of</strong> ethnic / immigrant managers in a larger firm,<br />

even tho ugh such a person may also be entrepreneur ial in that pos ition. While <strong>the</strong> ethnic /<br />

immigrant status may be significant in a corporate sense, it is possible that any<br />

entrepreneurial role is regarded as being more relevant to <strong>the</strong> management <strong>discipline</strong> ra<strong>the</strong>r<br />

than <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>entrepreneurship</strong>.<br />

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