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

5.3 Contributions and future research
5.3.00 As discussed in section 1.1.3, this dissertation had several intentions.
a) to illustrate the dictonous issue of the rapidly growing academic discipline of
entrepreneurship, that is apparently facing adolescent type growing pains.
b) to create a model, or series of models, that delineates the relationship between
the concepts of ontology and epistemology, along with offering definitions as to the
boundaries of discourse, discipline and what is termed ontic knowledge.
c) to develop the concepts of savoir and connaissance knowledges.
d) to apply Foucault’s concept of the episteme as a strategic apparatus in a piece of
research, incorporating Gadamer’s [1989] use of the term ‘prejudice’ as a positive,
to show how the flow of knowledge is influenced by the particular episteme and
maybe influe nced b y the prejudices.
5.3.01 I believe that these intent ions have been successful ly implemented. The models
developed have application as tools for emerging disciplines like knowledge management
which to date have few definitive conceptual models. The concepts of the episteme, the
parameters of acceptability of knowledge within such episteme, and the prejudices
associated with such acceptance could be utilised. This dissertation not only offers such
conceptual models, it also applies such models in a piece of research.
5.3.02 What has also emerged from this research is the greater applicational value of
the aliran when compared to the episteme. There is also the possibility to create a
dimensional mode l of this aliran to visually depict the features and interstices of this
aliran. While such dimensionality has not been fully shown in this work, it provides an
arena of future research.
225