Entrepreneuring as Emancipation Rindova, Barry, and Ketchen 2009 Entrepreneuring: efforts to bring about new economic, social, institutional, and cultural environments through the actions of an individual or group of individuals → emancipatory process with broad change potential. This view foregrounds three aspects: (1) seeking autonomy, (2) authoring, and (3) making declarations. There exist four main approaches about what entrepreneurs distinguishes from managers: (1) creation of new organizations, (2) high-growth, high-wealth-creating businesses, (3) innovations and creation of new products and markets, and (4) recognition and pursuit of profitable opportunities. The underlying assumption is that wealth creation is a …show more content…
Seeking autonomy Autonomy is a goal of emancipation which is defined as breaking free from the authority of another. The hope for autonomy is one of the main drivers of efforts to become self-employed. Breaking free suggests the desire to make one’s own way in the world, breaking up draws attention to the striving to imagine and create a better world. Analyzing the seeking autonomy aspects of entrepreneuring opens up the following directions in entrepreneurship research: The breaking up aspect of emancipation resonates with the Schumpeterian view of entrepreneurship as “creative destruction”. However, the emancipatory view goes beyond the Schumpeterian view by attending to both the breaking free and the breaking up. Example: how do entrepreneurial efforts may be affected by different conceptualizations of autonomy? Escaping the default individualist assumptions derived from the disciplines of psychology and economics that have informed it, and theorizing and researching both deeply individualist and social aspects. It involves the breaking up of constraints. The emancipatory perspective sees creative destruction as one of its goals (instead of the mean). Entrepreneuring individuals and groups often solve technological and other problems because they are internally motivated to change their worlds. The emancipatory perspective suggests that understanding the
Mankind has thrived off of the dependability of ideas and the application of them for centuries. Moreover, humans have sustained healthy lives through developments and inventions that have improved the world around them. From the earliest Mesopotamian creation of the wheel to Apple’s recent release of the iPhone 7, groundbreaking revelations have perpetuated and molded human survival in some aspect. Anyone can generate an idea, but rather, it is the ability to transform that idea into a development that is valued by many--which is what makes being an entrepreneur remarkable. Entrepreneurs are some of the keenest, most creative, and passionate people that walk the earth.
Entrepreneurship is when people start creating and designing a new business from scratch. It is when people come up with ideas and turn them into a proper business. ‘’Entrepreneurship is the journey of opportunity exploration and risk management to create value for profit and/or social good’’.
Entrepreneurship is a term that has reentered the public vernacular over the last few years, many times in reference to what is wrong with America but what it means is rarely defined. Furthermore, it is generally agreed that more Entrepreneurship is a desirable trait but how to go about encouraging it is again a point of contention. This paper will address a specific facet of entrepreneurship and attempt to discover what are the key drivers to foster an entrepreneurial spirit from childhood.
Entrepreneurship is an organized effort that is aimed at pursuing a unique, innovative opportunity so as to make quick, profitable growth. Similarly, entrepreneurial opportunities are those circumstances where new goods, services, raw materials and organizing methods may be brought into the market at be sold at a higher value than their cost of production. These opportunities can be differentiated from other opportunities for profit since they entail the discovery of new means-ends relationships and not building on the existing means-end structures (Legge and
Independence: sense of independence can be one of the driving forces that lead to entrepreneurship. Various studies show that a strong need of financial independence is one of the most common characteristic of entrepreneurs worldwide.
Entrepreneurship refers to the ability and willingness to design, develop and organize a business in order to realize profits. This is inclusive of management and risk taking in order to get profitable returns. In economics, entrepreneurship refers to the capacity to combine the factors of production such as labor, land and capital in order to realize profits. An entrepreneur is any person with the ability to manage, assume the risk, and conduct business in order to gain profits. An entrepreneur can identify opportunities, combine locally available resources, and make a plan to start a business. In simple terms, an entrepreneur is someone who can create value in resources. Entrepreneurship is a day-to-day activity where an entrepreneur regularly comes up with new ways of doing business and creating value in order to meet the needs and expectations of customers or consumers.
Entrepreneurship offers independence as entrepreneurs make their own decisions and are not restricted by company policy.
There have been dozens of definitions of entrepreneurship. The first of those is the phenomenon that some people, rather than working for somebody else under an employment contract, strike out on their own and become self-employed. These economic entities involve some element of innovation at start-up, and some degree of innovativeness is needed to survive over time. However, innovation is not central to this phenomenon. It is to the second social reality. This reality involves the development and renewal of any society, economy or organization, which is based on micro-level actors who have the initiative and persistence to make change happen. In this reality, ‘entrepreneurship’ means the creation of new economic activities and organizations as well as the transformation of existing ones .
The definition of entrepreneurship has been debated among scholars, educators, researchers, and policy makers since the concept was first established in the early 1700’s. The term “entrepreneurship” comes from the French verb “entreprendre” and the German word “unternehmen”, both means to “undertake”. Bygrave and Hofer in1891 defined the entrepreneurial process as ‘involving all the functions, activities, and actions associated with perceiving of opportunities and creation of organizations to pursue them’. Joseph Schumpeter introduced the modern definition of ‘entrepreneurship’ in 1934. According to Schumpeter, “the carrying out of new combinations we call
Entrepreneurship is difficult to define throughout its history research. Even nowadays, this concept is still a debatable point (Rajendra, et al., 2017). Based on four decades of research, Gartner (1988) concludes that entrepreneurs are founders of new firms. Shane and Venkataraman (2000) consider entrepreneurship as “a new venture’s risk-taking endeavor seeking an opportunity” and Fortunato (2014) adds innovative value into the concept of entrepreneurship. Thus, research on the definition of entrepreneurship continue. According to those diverse views, I will interpret six unique entrepreneurial characteristics and theoretically analyze each one. Risk taker, need for achievement and proactivity as my strengthens will be illustrated with my experience. Innovativeness, internal locus of control and tolerance for ambiguity are my weaknesses, thus I will describe relevant successful Entrepreneurs’ experiences.
“Entrepreneurship is the methodology of doing something new by committing the essential time and exertion and something other than what 's expected with the end goal of making abundance of the individual autonomy, individual fulfilment and increasing the value of the general public (Raymond W.Y.Kao)."
-According to R.M.Hodgehs,-‘Entrepreneurship is the process of organizing, managing and assuming the risk of a business.”
Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization in which the ‘Entrepreneur’ develops a business plan and is fully responsible for its success or failure.
According to economist Lester Thurow, “Entrepreneurs … bring the new technologies and the new concepts into active commercial use. They are the change agents of capitalism” (Murray, 2015). Based on this definition, to be an entrepreneur, these individuals must take a new idea or some creative thought, and actually derive commercial viability from it. The historical study of entrepreneurship was particularly concerned with understanding the process of structural change and development within economies. Joseph Schumpeter, a 20th century economic and political thinker, was well known for his theory describing entrepreneurial activity as one of the key drivers of economic growth. Further, Schumpeter coined the term “creative destruction”; the act of new innovations replacing old innovations (Joseph Schumpeter HBS).
Entrepreneurship refers to the act of investing in productive capital and assuming risk for productive ventures. An entrepreneur is an individual who purchases factors of production and combines them to produce consumable output. Entrepreneurs are distinguished from capitalists- who rent out capital to entrepreneurs- and workers, who sell their labor to entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are indispensable to the functioning of any economy. Entrepreneurs grow economies by creating new output, increase efficiency in economies, allocate society’s resources efficiently, and serve consumers and job-seekers.