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And in the End

And in the End Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2014 Vol. 5, No. 1, 1–4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2014.888167 EDITORIAL J. Gregory Dees Academic Pioneer and Friend (1950–2013) There are, perhaps, few modern examples of individual scholars who can legitimately claim to have founded an entirely new field of academic study. Whilst this was sometimes true in the formative years of key disciplines and their constituent theoretical strands in the more distant past, late modernity has seen an explosion of academic research that has increasingly left few new fields of study available to the intellectually pioneering. Moreover, the nor- mative pressures to conform to the paradigmatic rules and boundaries set around fields have also become a matter of life or death in terms of ‘credible’ publication ambitions – something that strongly discourages younger schol- ars from taking a risk by committing time and energy to explore new or untested empirical sites or develop new theory. As a consequence, true academic pioneers are increasingly few and far between. Given this context, the contribution of Professor J. Gregory Dees is all the more remarkable. ‘Greg’, as all his friends, colleagues and students always called him (the full meaning of the ‘J’ remained a mystery to us all), was such http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Entrepreneurship Taylor & Francis

And in the End

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Journal of Social Entrepreneurship , Volume 5 (1): 4 – Jan 2, 2014
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Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2014 Vol. 5, No. 1, 1–4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2014.888167 EDITORIAL J. Gregory Dees Academic Pioneer and Friend (1950–2013) There are, perhaps, few modern examples of individual scholars who can legitimately claim to have founded an entirely new field of academic study. Whilst this was sometimes true in the formative years of key disciplines and their constituent theoretical strands in the more distant past, late modernity has seen an explosion of academic research that has increasingly left few new fields of study available to the intellectually pioneering. Moreover, the nor- mative pressures to conform to the paradigmatic rules and boundaries set around fields have also become a matter of life or death in terms of ‘credible’ publication ambitions – something that strongly discourages younger schol- ars from taking a risk by committing time and energy to explore new or untested empirical sites or develop new theory. As a consequence, true academic pioneers are increasingly few and far between. Given this context, the contribution of Professor J. Gregory Dees is all the more remarkable. ‘Greg’, as all his friends, colleagues and students always called him (the full meaning of the ‘J’ remained a mystery to us all), was such

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