Theories on the «entrepreneur»

Abstract

This paper explains the conceptual frameworek of a research where we were looking at the factors that have favoured a entrepreneurial experience dominated by small and medium enterprise instead of a bigger structure, considering the fact that this structure has been seen as a competitive disadvantage that limits productivity, makes more difficult the transfer to external markets, the financing, and has a negative impact on Research and Development. Therefore, we were looking at how certain entrepreneurs have managed to develop innovative projects. On the other hand, we consider two perspectives on management studies. The first one characterises the businessman according to specific psychological traits. The second one, known as structural perspective, describes factors as derived from environment, from institutional, social, cultural, or ideologically based factors. We conclude that the study of the entrepreneurial function and the creation of companies is deficient if only structural or individual factors are taken into account.