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

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
2.2.0 The following three sections discuss the role of the practitioners, intellectuals and
academic gatekeepers influencing, by way of the episteme, the ‘eligibility to participate
and acceptability of knowledge’ into the discipline.
2.2.1 Practitioners as the subject of research
2.2.1.00 This section looks at the role of the practitioner. Going back to my positionality
of being a laboratory rat: Does a lab rat have an opinion on the experiments being
conducted on them? Do my 25 years of be ing entrepreneurial have va lue in connaissance
knowledge or does it account for naught in the discipline? Do practitioners have an
eligibility to participate in the discipline? This section discusses some of the issues
including positioning the practitioner in ‘Foucault’s Triangle’.
2.2.1.01 Practitioners (included in the rounded rectangle in Graphic 2a) are those people
that practise within the discourse and are possibly external to the discipline. It is assumed
that a discipline is attached to a discourse or to several discourses with each discourse
having its practitioners. The question of the practitioner’s ‘eligibility to participate’ in the
discipline relates to the discipline’s willingness to accept any savoir knowledge available
to the practitioner, that may not be available to the participants of the discipline.
2.2.1.02 With regards to Foucault’s triangle it can also be assumed that, in addition to
having one limit being the right of the discipline, there is also another limit, that of the
practitioner. This is shown in Graphic 2c below.
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