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

2.3.3.10 Given Leibniz’s ideas on app lying the use of laws of physics on non-physical
items such as ideas, disciplines etc we can look a t disciplines following physical laws; laws
of motion, laws of gravity, attraction and so forth. Gravitas gains similar properties to
gravity. The practitioners could be ‘drawn’ (as in a physical attraction) to another
discipline that more readily accepts the discontinuous experienced by the practitioner. It is
this ‘drawing’ that is significant. Entrepreneurs, or nascent entrepreneurs, are not tied to
the discipline of entrepreneurship and if the discipline is not representational of the work
of the practitioners there is nothing to stop practitioners finding that alternative disciplines
display more representationality and compatibility.
2.3.3.11 It is pos sible that practitioners more attracted by another discipline as in Mode l
D in Graphic 2f where ‘Discipline C’ becomes representational of Practitioners ‘b'.
‘Discipline C’ may be an emergent discipline or may be a relocation of other disciplines
such as ‘Discipline A’ or ‘Discipline B’. Somehow the savoir knowledges of the
practitioner and connaissance knowledges of the alternative discipline show a better
compatibility? Whether the lack of acceptances of discontinuities within the original
discipline have resulted in this movement is a moot question.
2.3.3.12 This investigation will focus on the representationality of the discipline and the
acceptability of knowledge into the episteme that collectively constitute the discipline.
When Foucault [in Dreyfus and Rabinow, 1983, p117] talks about crossing the ‘threshold
of epistemologization’ I assume in this perspective that this relates to episteme rather than
epistemology and, therefore, should not be mistaken for epistemic justification. The locus
remains with the episteme. A clarification of epistemic justification and the separation of
ontology and epistemology is elabor ated in the next section 2.4.
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