TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perren,Lew
AU  - Dannreuther,Charles
TI  - Political signification of the entrepreneur: temporal analysis of constructs, agency and reification
SN  - 02662426
AV  - HD2341.167 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Entrepreneurship approach
KW  - Political signification
N2  - This article explores the political signification of the term entrepreneur in UK parliamentary debates over the past forty years. Following a review of the literature, a need is identified to understand the construction of the entrepreneur in political discourse. Concern here is not with the prosaic cataloguing of policies or definitions, but with exploring shifts in the discursive constructs of the entrepreneur that underlie political practice. To explore these constructions a large longitudinal dataset is systematically condensed, while maintaining sensitivity to the nuances of meaning. A corpus-based linguistics approach is undertaken. This combines the computational analysis of significant collocates, that is important words (concepts) that surround the term entrepreneur, with the richness of qualitative analysis. Patterns of reification, agency and structure are identified in the portrayed entrepreneurial constructs. The philosophical and practical implications of these patterns are discussed and proposals are made for using corpus techniques in international comparative analyses
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242612441809
ER  -