In search of the meaning of entrepreneurship |
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Authors: | Robert F. Hébert Albert N. Link |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economics, Auburn University, 36849 Auburn, AL, USA;(2) Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 27412 Greensboro, NC, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper is an attempt to build a bridge between the popular and the academic usage of the terms entrepreneur and entrepreneurship, and to identify the raw materials needed to construct an interpretive framework capable of illuminating the nature of entrepreneurship and its role in economic theory. We review briefly the contributions made to this topic by Cantillon, Schumpeter, Schultz and Kirzner. We advance a synthetic definition of the entrepreneur as someone who specializes in taking responsibility for and making judgemental decisions that affect the location, the form, and the use of goods, resources, or institutions. We then conclude with some observations on the basic choice confronting economics regarding the place of entrepreneurship in economic analysis. |
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