Citations:Heffalump

English citations of Heffalump

• 1971 Peter Kilby, "Entrepreneurship and economic development"

  The search for the source of dynamic entrepreneurial performance has much in common with hunting the Heffalump.

• 1978, Webb, Chess for Tigers:

  On open territory a Tiger doesn't stand very much chance against a Heffalump; he can't even dig a Very Deep Pit to trap it, because Tigers aren't much good at digging.

• 1983 Robert De Beaugrande et al, "Introduction to text linguistics"

  This is a trap I've made, and I'm waiting for a Heffalump to fall into it.

• 1995 Jerry A. Fodor, "The elm and the expert: mentalese and its semantics"

  In effect, the orienting reflex is designed to so position a creature that if (to borrow an example of Winnie The Pooh's) it was a Heffalump that made the noise, then the creature will come to believe that it was a Heffalump . . .

• 2008, Eva Cools, “The Hunt for the Heffalump Continues: Who is the Flemish Entrepreneur?”, in Hans Landström, Hans Crijns, Eddy Laveren, David Smallbone, editors, Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Growth and Performance: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Entrepreneurs and Their Role), page 30:

  With the study in this chapter, we continue the hunt for the Heffalump to answer the 'who is the entrepreneur' question [...]. The Heffalump is a character from Winnie-the-Pooh that has been hunted by many individuals using various ingenious trapping devices, but no one has succeeded in capturing it so far. All who claim to have caught sight of it report that it is enormous, but they disagree on its particularities [...].