Entrepreneurship as a teaching and research field has been struggling to define and establish itself. It is usually associated with the creation of new organizations (start-ups) and thus it relates to the initial stages of the life of an organization (e.g. Stinchcombe, 1965) and the difficulties its entrepreneurs\/founders encounter in obtaining and mobilizing resources to deliver a \u201cnew\u201d good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to obtain resources, entrepreneurs need to \u201csell\u201d their initiatives, champion them, to try to convince others to contribute their resources in order to make the initiative\/good a (successful) reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea to create an organization stems from the entrepreneur\u2019s perception of an opportunity to offer a \u201cnew\u201d good and thus taking a risk in investing time and other resources in trying to make the \u201cnew\u201d good successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Setting up the internal organization and making it scalable so it can grow is the third issue that the entrepreneurship literature addresses (e.g. Greiner, 1972).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems to me that the six conceptual and theoretical issues referred above \u2013 opportunity perception, initiative selling and resource acquisition, risk taking, organizational design and growth \u2013 are generic management topics which organizations face at different stages of their life (e.g. Burgelman, 1983; Penrose, 1959; Dutton & Jackson, 1988). Actually, entrepreneurship comes from the French verb \u201dentreprendre\u201d, which means to take initiative, to resolve to act.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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