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

Part Two: Theoretical framework for this investigation
2.1 Developing a model of discourses and disciplines
2.1.1 Ontic states, ontic knowledge, ontologies and disciplines.
2.1.2 Discourse – the intermediate states
2.1.3 Discip lines – power of the right
2.1.4 Citations and good form
2.2 The role of practitioners, intellectuals and academic gatekeepers in the model
2.2.1 Practitioners as the subject of research
2.2.2 Intellectuals as third paths
2.2.3 The episteme - academics as gatekeepers
2.3 Dynamic aspects of disciplines, discontinuities and dubious disciplines
2.3.1 Dynamic aspects of disciplines
2.3.2 Discontinuities
2.3.3 Dubious disciplines – some scenarios
2.4 Ontologies
2.4.1 Ontologies as constructions
2.4.2 Ep istemic justification
2.4.3 Heidegger’s ontological test
2.5 Analysing the discipline of entrepreneurship
2.5.1 Applying Foucault
2.5.2 The emergence
2.5.2.1 Mapping the first emergence
2.5.2.1 Adolescent angst and acne
2.5.2.3 Ep istemologies- what Foucault missed
2.5.3 The authorities of delimitation
2.5.4 The grids of specification
2.5.5 Refining the issue of the investigation
2.0.00 Based upon the lineage of philosophical thought outlined in Part One, specifically
the works of Foucault and Heidegger, Part Two outlines the theoretical framework for this
investigation, in particular taking the taxonomy used and creating a working model. This
model is developed to better illustrate the entity of ‘the discipline’ and how this entity
interacts and nests with other entities of knowledge such as discourses and ontic states. The
roles of academic gatekeepers are detailed together with the episteme that are created
through the interaction of exclusions, citations, and the other elements that are part and
parcel of the discipline. The exercise of power, as in gravitas, between the elements of the
discipline and the savoir knowledge of the practitioner, is applied using Foucault’s
Triangle, which also includes observations on the role of third parties such as intellectuals.
2.0.01 The models being developed in this dissertation are considered dynamic and the
effects of discontinuities on the model are illustrated. Hypotheses are offered on the
possibility of the effect of a rift between savoir and connaissance knowledges that may
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