How can we know the dancer from the dance?

摘要

How can we know the dancer from the dance? In watching a dance we can locate the dancer and his/her moves. Yet, can we separate the dance from the dancer?2 Similarly, how we can separate the entrepreneur from the opportunity or the opportunity from the entrepreneur? This is the central issue of Sarason etal. (2006) as well as Mole and Mole (2008-this issue). Certainly, there are scripts in dance, as there are in economic structure, from which a dance may be constructed, or at least, construed. Yet, in the end, the dance is not just the script. Observing the dance, its conditions, and the dancer, it is not difficult to say there is more than the script, for the script does not in any estimation reflect the movement in the dance. Likewise, the dancer is reliant upon the dance to create the movement that defines him/her as a dancer. The two, it seems, exist together, and define one another. So it is that we view the nexus of entrepreneur and opportunity, that is the entrepreneur and the opportunity exist together and define one another.