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Title

Defining entrepreneurship as a 'domain of practice': implications for theory and research for policy and education

Author(s)

O'Connor, Allan;  Cherry, Nita;  Buckley, Patricia

Abstract

This paper holds in tension two perspectives on the framing of entrepreneurship: one as a discipline and the other as a domain of practice. Cooperative inquiry is the research method used to 'hold' and 'conduct' this inquiry with the purpose to explore the implications of both the different definitional frames of entrepreneurship and the use of a cooperative inquiry research method. First, we demonstrate the application and implementation of the cooperative inquiry. Second, the implications of the different definitional frames are explored within the contexts of Australian educational policy frameworks and the teaching and learning practice of entrepreneurship. Finally the implications and possibilities of a cooperative inquiry research method are discussed for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise

Source

Proceedings of Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2006, the 3rd International Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE) Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Auckland, New Zealand, 08-10 February 2006, pp. 138-162

Publication year

2006

Publisher

Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology

ISBN

0855908173

Publisher URL

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/ir/onlineconferences/agse2006/

Copyright

This paper copyright © 2006 The authors. Proceedings copyright © 2006 Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.

Additional information

This paper was awarded the CIT Award for the Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Education at the Regional Frontiers 2006 Conference.

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