The dialogic thus defined is not hermetic. In the field of entrepreneurship, it is assumed that the entrepreneur is a necessary condition for the emergence of the outcome. The entrepreneur is not the only necessary condition, however, as the environment, for example, must also tolerate the entrepreneur’s activity. Similarly, the outcome is a necessary
condition for the entrepreneur to exist and be recognised as such, but it is not sufficient either. New companies (in the legal sense of the word) are sometimes created as subsidiaries of existing organisations, without it being possible to credit a specific individual for the creation of such structures. Differences in point of view may bring researchers to favour one of these two aspects in their approach to entrepreneurship. Nevertheless all the research issues relating to the field should include both dimensions.