... to the epistemological position of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and to potential pitfalls in using Lacanian theory. Findings – The authors highlight the danger of Lacanian theory functioning as a dogmatic interpretative frame, and suggest countering this tendency by accentuating both the spirit of investigation...

... entrepreneurship as coevolution. Social construction Entrepreneurship theory Ontology Epistemology Complexity theory Entrepreneurship as a complex adaptive system Entrepreneurs Adaptive system theory The purpose of this paper is to address what we see as a problem in entrepreneurship...

... The management literature has documented a wide range of criticisms about standard management research which are most often summarized as “the relevance gap” or the “translation problem”. The paper presents the historical development, in the French context, of an epistemological debate about management...