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

5.2 Can entrepreneurship be considered a dubious discipline?
5.2.00 This section reviews the question of whether the discipline of entrepreneurship
could be considered to be a dubious discipline.
5.2.01 In section 4.1.3.05 I discussed the possibility of citation indexes being a measure
of disciplinic dubiety. This may be a reasonable assumption given that disciplines could be
considered to be the collective connaissance knowledge of the journals, articles and texts
that are its composition. The collective value of the citations indexes of the journals
attached to that discipline could be considered a measure of the dubious or non-dubious
nature of the discipline. However, as per my discussion on the study by Biehl, Kim and
Wade [2006], I tend to reject the use of citation inde xing as a measure of jour nal ‘value’
and therefor e such indexing could be less than representational of the status of the
discipline. I would think that answering the question, on whether the discipline could be
considered dubious, could call for a more subjective opinion. As someone who possessing
savoir knowledge and, with this study, a better appreciation of the connaissance
knowledge of this discipline, my opinion may have some basis.
5.2.02 I approached this study, as a person who has been entrepreneurial, with a strong
degree of scepticism on the way the discipline of entrepreneurship had developed and was
developing. Without eating too much humble pie, I admit that my scepticism may have
been less than warranted. In part this was due to a better understanding of the role of the
episteme as a forum for the cross exchange of academic ideas and concepts.
5.2.03 Yes, there are areas in the discipline where there have been overt construction
of ontologies, not necessarily by those who initiated them, but more by those, possibly
with their own age nda, who have championed t hese ontologies at later times.
5.2.04 Yes, in the domains of ethnicity / immigrancy there have been instances where
soft subjects of study have been taken. Yet these have still contributed in some ways to the
overall development and collective knowledge of the connaissance. Harder subjects of
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