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 dialogue – 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 rigour and relevance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1176-1196 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 29 Mar 2020 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2021 |
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Dimo Dimov
- Management - Professor
- Strategy & Organisation
- Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS)
- Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Bath
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security
- IAAPS: Propulsion and Mobility
- Centre for Future of Work
- Innovation Bridge
Person: Research & Teaching, Core staff, Affiliate staff