Simon Bridge is an author and a visiting professor at the Ulster University Business School, UK.

• 1. Introduction: An evolving understanding of enterprise, but with problems 2. Conventional wisdom and assumptions about enterprise: There is a questionable conventional wisdom but, if its foundations are not clearly recorded, what might be the assumptions behind it? 3. Knowledge is often imperfect: How knowledge forms, how we learn, why there are possible distortions and why we should expect the emergence of a ‘conventional wisdom’ 4. A policy research disconnect: Why policy failings were not resolved through a meaningful dialogue with research and consequent ‘trial and error’ improvements 5. Exploring the assumptions: The suggested assumptions: are they credible and were they made? 6. Questioning the Assumptions: If the assumptions were made, were they correct? 7. Reviewing the evidence: Reviewing the case that conventional enterprise wisdom rests on a foundation of interlinked, but misguided, assumptions 8. Reclaiming Enterprise: The implications of changing the paradigm

Simon Bridge is an author and a visiting professor at the Ulster University Business School, UK.

• 1. Introduction: An evolving understanding of enterprise, but with problems 2. Conventional wisdom and assumptions about enterprise: There is a questionable conventional wisdom but, if its foundations are not clearly recorded, what might be the assumptions behind it? 3. Knowledge is often imperfect: How knowledge forms, how we learn, why there are possible distortions and why we should expect the emergence of a ‘conventional wisdom’ 4. A policy research disconnect: Why policy failings were not resolved through a meaningful dialogue with research and consequent ‘trial and error’ improvements 5. Exploring the assumptions: The suggested assumptions: are they credible and were they made? 6. Questioning the Assumptions: If the assumptions were made, were they correct? 7. Reviewing the evidence: Reviewing the case that conventional enterprise wisdom rests on a foundation of interlinked, but misguided, assumptions 8. Reclaiming Enterprise: The implications of changing the paradigm

Simon Bridge is an author and a visiting professor at the Ulster University Business School, UK.

• 1. Introduction: An evolving understanding of enterprise, but with problems 2. Conventional wisdom and assumptions about enterprise: There is a questionable conventional wisdom but, if its foundations are not clearly recorded, what might be the assumptions behind it? 3. Knowledge is often imperfect: How knowledge forms, how we learn, why there are possible distortions and why we should expect the emergence of a ‘conventional wisdom’ 4. A policy research disconnect: Why policy failings were not resolved through a meaningful dialogue with research and consequent ‘trial and error’ improvements 5. Exploring the assumptions: The suggested assumptions: are they credible and were they made? 6. Questioning the Assumptions: If the assumptions were made, were they correct? 7. Reviewing the evidence: Reviewing the case that conventional enterprise wisdom rests on a foundation of interlinked, but misguided, assumptions 8. Reclaiming Enterprise: The implications of changing the paradigm