Variations in entrepreneurship |
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Authors: | William B Gartner |
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Institution: | (1) Spiro Institute of Entrepreneurial Leadership, College of Business and Behavioral Science, Clemson University, 346 Sirrine Hall, Clemson, SC 29634-1305, USA |
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Abstract: | This article is written in the style of a “bildungsroman,” a fictional autobiographical “coming of age story” about the author’s
experiences of his beginning to recognize the: great diversity of entrepreneurs, many types of startup firms, multiple ways
entrepreneurs go about starting firms, and innumerable situations in which entrepreneurial activity takes place. In this remembrance
of things past, the author realizes: the phenomenological underpinnings of his understanding of entrepreneurship, his belief
in the primacy of facts as the arbiter of theory, that his theory predisposed him to look only for certain kinds of facts
and ignore others which then makes theory paradoxically the arbiter of the facts found, and, finally, that knowledge is hard
won and wisdom elusive.
“Nothing is more uncertain, more contradictory, more unsatisfactory than the evidence of facts”—William Godwin |
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Keywords: | Narrative Poetic Process Organization Weick |
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