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Using a non-linear relational paradigm to evaluate the entrepreneur in a new venture

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posted on 2024-07-11, 17:26 authored by Alistair Campbell, Murray Gillin
The paper builds on a wide range of literature in entrepreneurship, physical science, human science, and the so-called new science. The basic tenets of the NLRP characterise new venture creation as Non-Linear and the entrepreneur's approach as Relational. The resulting Non-Linear Relational Paradigm (NLRP) is used to analyse extensive empirical data about the process of new venture creation, gathered from diverse informants who are intimately involved in the entrepreneurship process. NVivo® allowed the large number of cases to be handled with scientific rigour. Insights from Empirical Phenomenology added complexity and depth to the frameworks of Yin and Eisenhardt. This paper distilled 20 separate meanings that form the NLRP. The informants' evidence confirms Non-Linearity as a key to any realistic description of entrepreneurship. The NLRP is presented as a unique and coherent framework within which to understand and conceptualise entrepreneurship's intriguing human complexities.

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1449-2997

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Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2004, the 1st Annual Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship-Babson College Regional Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23-25 February 2004 / L. Murray Gillin, Frank La Pira and John Yencken (eds.)

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Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2004, the 1st Annual Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship-Babson College Regional Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23-25 February 2004 / L. Murray Gillin, Frank La Pira and John Yencken eds.

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16 pp

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Swinburne University of Technology

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Copyright © 2004 Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

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eng

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