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

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2020-03-29
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Dimov, Dimo
Schaefer, Reiner
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3816
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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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Dimov, D., Schaefer, R., & Pistrui, J. (2021). Look who is talking… and who is listening: Finding an integrative “we” voice in entrepreneurial scholarship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(5), 1176-1196. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720914507.
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