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1.3.11 While later developments in <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> move away from <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> ‘<strong>the</strong><br />

entrepreneur’ towards an orientation focusing more on entrepreneurial behaviour [Gardner,<br />

1989], <strong>the</strong> question can be asked, as per Foucault’s [2005] system <strong>of</strong> objective knowledge,<br />

as to how has <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> developed. This question is significant with regards to <strong>the</strong><br />

earlier cited comments by Gardner [1989] and by Low and McMillan [1988 ] that call into<br />

question <strong>the</strong> objectivity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> work prod uced by <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> in <strong>the</strong> late 1980s, and also<br />

querying 10 years later whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>re had been any changes towards greater objectivity, in<br />

<strong>the</strong> intervening period. The concept <strong>of</strong> a <strong>discipline</strong> being, in part, an overt construction by<br />

those in <strong>the</strong> <strong>discipline</strong> comes through as part <strong>of</strong> this investigation.<br />

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