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“Who Is an Entrepreneur?” Is the Wrong Question
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is the creation of organizations. What differentiates entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs is that entrepreneurs create organizations, while non-entrepreneurs do not. In behavioral approaches to the study of entrepreneurship an entrepreneur is seen as a set of activities involved in organization creation, while in trait approaches an entrepreneur is a set of personality traits and characteristics. This paper argues that trait approaches have been unfruitful and that behavioral approaches will be a more productive perspective for future research in entrepreneurship.
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“Over the years, numerous scholars have defined entrepreneurship based on various views (Drucker, 1985; Gartner, 1988); however, there is still no consensus on the meaning of entrepreneurship.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gartner, W. B.
- Venue
- American Journal of Small Business
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1988-04
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 11-32
- ISSN
- 0363-9428 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2341544654
- Cited by
- 3,378
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 26.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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