Look who is talking… and who is listening: Finding an integrative “we” voice in entrepreneurial scholarship.
Look who is talking… and who is listening: Finding an integrative “we” voice in entrepreneurial scholarship.
This paper explores the relationship between the study of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurs we study. While scholars typically adopt a detached, third-person stance for the purpose of explaining and predicting entrepreneurial action, entrepreneurs instead operate in a first-person stance of deciding what to do. The two stances cannot be reduced to one another. We argue that an engaged dialog—a second-person stance—can bring scholars and entrepreneurs together into a unifying practical decision-making perspective. By working to develop this integrative voice in scholarship, we can collapse the dualism of rigor and relevance.
Philosophy, second-person stance, entrepreneurial behavior, rigor and relevance
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Dimov, Dimo
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Schaefer, Reiner
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Pistrui, Joseph
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1 September 2021
Dimov, Dimo
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Schaefer, Reiner
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Pistrui, Joseph
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Dimov, Dimo, Schaefer, Reiner and Pistrui, Joseph
(2021)
Look who is talking… and who is listening: Finding an integrative “we” voice in entrepreneurial scholarship.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45 (5), .
(doi:10.1177/1042258720914507).
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the study of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurs we study. While scholars typically adopt a detached, third-person stance for the purpose of explaining and predicting entrepreneurial action, entrepreneurs instead operate in a first-person stance of deciding what to do. The two stances cannot be reduced to one another. We argue that an engaged dialog—a second-person stance—can bring scholars and entrepreneurs together into a unifying practical decision-making perspective. By working to develop this integrative voice in scholarship, we can collapse the dualism of rigor and relevance.
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 March 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 March 2020
Published date: 1 September 2021
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Philosophy, second-person stance, entrepreneurial behavior, rigor and relevance
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/455913
ISSN: 1042-2587
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