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

entrepreneurship is not defined by shape or size of the vehicle, nor the ethnicity nor
gende r, b ut by attitude to capacity for inspired ‘work’ together with a sense of success that
this generates. The US Chamber of Commerce [2006] in its 2006 report ‘Work,
entrepreneurship and opportunity in 21 st centur y America’ also stress the aspects of
‘entrepreneurial work’. Amoore [2004] together with Companys and McMullen [2007]
follow similar themes, the former introducing the term ‘worker-entrepreneur’ and the latter
tending to interpret work as entrepreneurial action as a response to opportunities.
4.3.10.07 My feeling that as part of the development of the discipline the sub-aliran of
ethnicity needs to move away from studying the ethnic / immigrants aspects of the small
business person or the self-employed. It needs to extend its scope to studies on how ethnic
/ immigrant linked attributes of work can also have an impact on the corporate domain.
The role of ethni c / immigrant attributes in correlation with McClelland’s entrepreneurial
positions would make an interesting study and by defying traditional approaches to
entrepreneurship could make it more akin to strategic entrepreneurship the subject of the
next section.
4.3.11 Strategic entrepreneurship – the new frontier?
4.3.11.00 In section 4.3.8.3 I discussed the domains of corporate and small business as
being ends of a polar scale. I further discussed the introversion of the corporate domain
suggesting that such introversion may be due to some crisis of identity sourcing from a
difficulty in delineation between the discipline of entrepreneurship and other disciplines
such as management and strategy. In this section I discuss two aspects of the sub-aliran of
strategic entrepreneurship. Firstly, the discipline seems to be addressing this issue of the
difficulty in delineating between the discipline of entrepreneurship and other disciplines
such as management and strategy. Secondly, I suggest that this sub-aliran could well be a
remake of the constructed sub-aliran of corporate entrepreneurship, which as discussed
earlier did not fit naturally into my heffalump mode l.
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