Look Who Is Talking … and Who Is Listening: Finding an Integrative “We†Voice in Entrepreneurial Scholarship

Dimo Dimov, Reiner Schaefer and Joseph Pistrui

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2021, vol. 45, issue 5, 1176-1196

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.

Keywords: philosophy; second-person stance; entrepreneurial behavior; rigor and relevance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1042258720914507

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