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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Pistrui, Joseph, Dimov, Dimo, Schaefer, Reiner
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:IE
Repositorio:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3816
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720914507
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3816
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave: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
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Resumo: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.