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

5.3.03 What has fur ther emerged from this work is the aspect of gravitas and the
practical influence of such gravitas on the ontological inclus ions and exclusions as shown
from the aliran. This is an aspect that needs to be addressed by the discipline for its future
with regards to the evolut ion of the ontology of strategic entrepreneurship where the
current introversion of the corporate ontologies are perceived to need to become more
extroverted, with more interstices between the ontologies of entrepreneurship and strategic
management. As mentioned in section 5.1.10, there is the need to po sition the
‘entrepreneurial firm where all those who are in pos itions deemed to be entrepreneurial are
engaged in e ntrepreneurial work, when required to do so.’ This positioning provides a nice
link between the past and the future, from the works of McClelland [1965] to Amoore’s
[2004] worker entrepreneur, to the potential for strategic entrepreneurship through the
timeliness of entrepreneurial work.
5.3.04 Also from my own savoir positionality, the significance of savoir knowledge
(as per Foucault’s Triangle) being the source of the flow of power to connaissance
knowledge cannot be under-estimated. In my opinion research needs to be more orientated
towards practice, with theories being derived from the savoir and developed in the
connaissance.
5.3.05 Based upon this dissertation I would also like to see the future development of a
real three dimension mode l of the aliran. Such de ve lop ment and the dissemination of this
mod el of the aliran into academia is dependant upon the use of technological tools, such
as 3D modeling software currently available in the commercial realm, and the acceptance
of the product of these tools into academia.
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