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study (addressing <strong>the</strong> introverted as discussed in section 4.3.8.3.06) may need to be taken<br />

in <strong>the</strong> fut ure and <strong>the</strong>se may need to overcome <strong>the</strong> problems <strong>of</strong> disciplinary inclus ions and<br />

exclusions.<br />

5.2.05 Yes, I would still agree with Low [2001] that <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> is still in its<br />

adolescence. But this is more in <strong>the</strong> way <strong>of</strong> a wilful teen, eager, maybe too full <strong>of</strong> itself,<br />

and yet to learn from <strong>the</strong> savoir experiences available to it. I have <strong>the</strong> opinion, particularly<br />

reinforced from <strong>the</strong> emergence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> revised heffalump model, that <strong>the</strong> direction being<br />

taken by <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> is probably moving in <strong>the</strong> right direction. Whe<strong>the</strong>r it has pa ssed<br />

Foucault’s point <strong>of</strong> epistemologization is still indeterminate.<br />

5.2.06 I do believe that <strong>the</strong>re needs to be a greater awareness within <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

relative aspects <strong>of</strong> ontology, epistemology and gravitas and how <strong>the</strong>se app ly to <strong>the</strong><br />

development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>entrepreneurship</strong>. I do also be lieve that disseminating this<br />

dissertation into <strong>the</strong> connaissance knowledge <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> could assist in this<br />

objective.<br />

5.2.07 From <strong>the</strong> <strong>aliran</strong> is it possible to infer that <strong>the</strong> ‘being’ <strong>of</strong> <strong>entrepreneurship</strong> has<br />

been clarified? My answer is ‘No’. I do not believe that <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> could pass<br />

Heidegger’s ontological test, at this point in time. While I am able, in this research, to<br />

identify <strong>the</strong> ontologies from <strong>the</strong> sub-<strong>aliran</strong>, even though some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> more extroverted sub-<br />

<strong>aliran</strong> may fall into several ontologies, I do not believe that it is possible to really clarify,<br />

from <strong>the</strong> <strong>aliran</strong>, <strong>the</strong> being <strong>of</strong> <strong>entrepreneurship</strong>. The elephant is still a heffalump, due in<br />

part, I believe, to a lack <strong>of</strong> objectivity and also a lack <strong>of</strong> connection to <strong>the</strong> savoir. Low and<br />

MacMillan [1998, p146], advised scholars in <strong>entrepreneurship</strong> that "<strong>the</strong> field will be better<br />

served in <strong>the</strong> future if <strong>the</strong> issue <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>oretical perspective is addressed directly and unstated<br />

assumptions avoided". This lack <strong>of</strong> objectivity has not been to <strong>the</strong> benefit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong>.<br />

The aspects <strong>of</strong> gravitas as discussed in section 2.4.3 are apparently significant in <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>discipline</strong> and as suggested from <strong>the</strong> <strong>aliran</strong>, in some cases, such gravitas has been<br />

misplaced.<br />

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