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 decidi...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | IE |
| Repository: | Repositorio IE |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3816 |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720914507 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3816 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Philosophy Second-person stance Entrepreneurial behavior Rigor and relevance 53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas ODS 5 - Igualdad de género ODS 1 - Fin de la pobreza ODS 9 - Industria, innovación e infraestructura |
| Summary: | 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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