Thursday, 13 December 2012

Entrepreneurship as Career Option

An educated person has broadly two career options. One is called wages or salary employment, Wherein people are employed in government service, public and private sectotrs and get fixed wage or salary. The other career option is entrepreneurial employment under which people set up their new venture. Wage employment is self-saturating. Once a valid, it blocks the employment opportunity to other for another ten years. On the other hand, the latter contributes towards national wealth and has a unique characteristic of self-generation.  Their...

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Entrepreneurship as a Process!!

In the last decade and a half there has been a resurgence of entrepreneurship in higher education. This revival is not from the traditional discipline of economic but from the discipline of business management. The business schools have instituted new courses in entrepreneurship. While entrepreneur is a person who sets up a business, `Entrepreneurship` is considered as the process or action of setting up of the new venture and the venture so set-up is called the `enterprise`. Entrepreneurship has been considered as the propensity of mind to take...

Concept of Entrepreneurship

    From the classical economists to the post-keynesian analysts, The topic of the entrepreneur has been surveyed, and observations, theories and pronouncements advanced. Not only were pure economists involved in the endeavors but also prominent social theorists such as Marx, Weber, Sombard and Veblen.   In general, contemporary economists agree that the entrepreneur is a business leader and that his role in forecasting economic growth and development is a pivotal one. At present, however, there is...

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Meaning and Definitions of Entrepreneurhip

Meaning: Entrepreneurship is the propensity to take calculated risks with confidence to achieve a pre-determined business or industrial objective. In substance, it is risk-taking ability of the individual, broadly coupled with correct decision-making. When one witnesses a community, who engage themselves in the industrial or commercial pursuits and appear to take risk and show enterprise, it is acknowledged to be a commercial class. The commercial class is a myth just like that of the so-called martial race. Definitions: Entrepreneurship...