Entrepreneurship as a family resemblance concept: A Wittgensteinian approach to the problem of defining entrepreneurship
| Autor: | Daniel Leunbach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Entrepreneurship
Philosophy of science Strategy and Management Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences Subject (philosophy) Family resemblance Cognitive reframing law.invention Epistemology law 0502 economics and business Premise CLARITY 050211 marketing Sociology 050203 business & management Applied Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of Management. 37:101141 |
| ISSN: | 0956-5221 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scaman.2021.101141 |
| Popis: | Why is consensus and clarity about the definition of entrepreneurship so elusive? The central premise of this paper is that we can gain a better understanding of the problem of defining entrepreneurship, of what it means to us as a field of research, and what we can hope to achieve by grappling with it, by substituting one question for another. The question we must start with to get a clear view is not “What is entrepreneurship?”, but rather “What sort of concept is entrepreneurship?” This reframing enables us to see that entrepreneurship is a family resemblance concept. It follows from this metacognitive insight, if it is correct, that all attempts to define entrepreneurship will be subject to counterexamples. This perspective is used to therapeutically alleviate emotional and behavioral problems in the field of entrepreneurship, and to offer practical suggestions for how to deal productively with paradigmatic diversity in the field. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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