Abstract
ABSTRACT This article presents, based on the Bruyne, Herman and Schoutheete’s proposition (1977) on the “four poles of the methodological practice: epistemological, morphological, theoretical, and technical”, how entrepreneurship is being construed in Business Administration studies. We carried out a bibliometric analysis from articles published in events linked to ANPAD – National Association of graduate studies and research in business administration. Then we made a content analysis on selected articles in order to identify how the theme is approached considering each of the poles. There was an excess of researches favoring the technical pole comparing to the others, which is probably contributing with the emptying of ANPAD’s area itself. Our main contributions are given in the technical pole, related to data collection, and there are countless case studies. In reality it is where most empirical researches on entrepreneurship and related topics converge to. Allied to this discrepancy is the fact that most of researches are also the result of exploratory and descriptive studies. We must remember that the exploratory and descriptive studies are at the level that Bruyne et al. (1977) call the “ground zero” of theorization.
Highlights
The growing interest for subjects related to entrepreneurship, in its most diverse perspectives, began to take form in the scope of the Administration studies at the end of the 90's, in 1999, with the publication of two articles: “Tendências do comportamento gerencial da mulher empreendedora” (The Tendencies of the Behavioral Management of the Entrepreneurial Woman), which was the outcome of a Ph.D thesis from a Production Engineerings student and “Validando um instrumento de medidas de comprometimento: uma proposta empreendedora voltada para as dimensões acadêmica e empresarial” (Validating an Instrument of Commitment Measures: An Enterprising Proposal Focused on the Academic and Business Dimensions)
Lumpkin (2011) encourages us to “move on and declare victory” in the battle to establish entrepreneurship as a legitimate field of study. He suggests that we focus our attention to the impact of entrepreneurship research
There are four fields of diverse nature and importance and their influence is specific to each particular context of research. They are: the field of social demand, the field of axiology, the field of doxology, and the field of epistemology. This last one is what we examined in this article trying to understand the state of the art in the field of entrepreneurship
Summary
Professora convidada da University of Nottingham (UK). Doutora em Administração pela Aprovado em: 27/8/2015. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Mestre em Administração pela Universidade. Graduada em Administração de Empresas pela Universidade
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