Entrepreneurship studies are dominated by the disciplines of economics and psychology and work within a limiting methodological frame of reference; a ‘scientistic’ and individualistic framework that dominates the US-led mainstream of research. To achieve a more balanced scholarship, it is helpful to look at an alternative style of research and analysis which has deep and intertwined European and American roots. This looks to other social sciences such as sociology, as well as to history and the philosophy of science. Its adoption would encourage to shift the focus away from ‘entrepreneurs’ and onto the much broader phenomenon of entrepreneurial action or ‘entrepreneuring’ in its societal and institutional contexts. Such a shift would open up a greatly expanded range of research questions and enable a better balance to be achieved between attention to individual entrepreneurial actors and their organizational, societal and institutional contexts. A pragmatist and realist frame of reference, which recognize...

Entrepreneurial action and the Euro-American social science tradition: pragmatism, realism and looking beyond ‘the entrepreneur’

The ninety-eighth Critical Bibliography,* which includes 2666citations, is the nineteenth to be classified according to the system established in 1953. The main purpose of the classification has always been, in the words of its founder, George Sarton, \"to satisfy the needs of historians of science in general rather than those of historians of particular sciences\". While the classification is both chronological and by subject, preference is given to the former. The reader who wishes to find all references to a particular subject, therefore, must examine several sections of the bibliography.

Ninety-Eighth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (to January 1973)

The great relevance of Max Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy for understanding modern public administration is insufficiently acknowledged. Critical examination of the claims made to support "new c...

The Disregard for Weber's Herrschaft

The question of paradigm “shift” or paradigm “continuity” in the virtual worlds of controllable, and exploitative, existence needs to be canvassed? Web 1.0 hubris seems to be augmented by a newer, Web 2.0-based propaganda, and related, commercial discourses, involving the putative “liberating,” politico-economic contours of cyberspace. The “democratizing” and “developmental” gradients of the “Digital Divide”, externally and internally, have now been subsumed within a new “politics of fear”; a new hegemonic discourse of “terrorism” and “security” – so much so – that echoes of past debates about the profundity of ICT developments and democratic, social impacts begin to sound like dystopian subversion. Neo-liberal cyberspace, Web 1.0, or Web 2.0, based, is a coercive space, fraught with vulnerability and exploitation.

Cyberpunk-Web 1.0 "Egoism" Greets Group Web 2.0 "Narcissism": Convergence, Consumption, and Surveillance in the Digital Divide

This paper deals with the celebrity-like status accorded to U.S. pub lic administration theorists, in context and out of context. The Fried rich-Finer debate of 1940/1941 is re-visited not only in a comparativist re-casting of the democratic project and the vacuum of Weberian discourses but also in the context of the emerging, Ne oliberal agenda of the role of the agentic Sovereign Individual within the globalizing grand narrative of cyberspace.

Julian Nagel

Papers

The Sociology of Max Weber