Per Davidsson from his Researching Entrepreneurship (2004) has given many definitions and keywords to identify what entrepreneurship can be and could be.However he states in his aricle and personally emphasizes on the definition "the fruitful notion in austrain economics is that entrepreneurship consists of the competitive behaviours that drive the market process" (Kirzner,1973, pp 19-20)
In the videos Davidsson, P. (2010) also gives his personal opinion about how a successful entrepreneur must have lasting effect on market level and that entreprenauring is not about success in venture level.This definatly made me think because in my first blog i had given my personal definition about entreprenauring as turning oppertunities ,change ,and innovation into a "succesful venture", perhaps only due the fact that the thought of market has not crossed my mind.Would try to address more about this issue in my last blog.
Davidsson, P. (2005) also describes in his"The types and contextual fit of entrepreneurial processes" about the Microlevel and marco level effects,Societal -level outcome success,Success ventures,Re-distributive Ventures, Catalyst Ventures and also Failed Ventures.
The aspect that caught my attention was when he also talked about luck and serendipity.At first i superstitiously completely agreed with it ,but when i actually thought about it i felt that promoting the idea of luck and serendipity could sometimes lead to abandoning the start up venture or businesses in cases of failed ventures and could mislead the ones successful who experience the serendipity of the situation.
In Davidsson, P. (2005) The types and contextual fit of entrepreneurial processes ,he also describes D.Sarasvathy(s) causation process( creating a business out of existing things) and effectuation process (business planning and acquiring resources according to the plan) .My personal thoughts on these were that of that the initial idea requires high creativity skill and the later requires high management skills in order to acquire resources.
In the videos Davidsson, P. (2010) also states that according to research entrepreneurs do not belong to a specific profile and that they are special in their own way !!!
Meanwhile i had been thinking all this time that successful entrepreneurs must have or have had typical noticeable and common characteristics.
Now as am on the journey of exactly understanding to understand what entrepreneurship really is ,i could not help but look back again and ask myself a question of how it originated.Did it originate out a human desire to be unique and noticed and to carve his/her identity in this never constant ,ever changing world.Or did it actually exists out of need. And i again ask myself which way to take "the desire" or "the need" and which is the most lasting? :-)
References:
Davidsson, P. (2004): Researching Entrepreneurship, Chapter 1: What is entrepreneurship, Springer
Davidsson, P. (2005): The types and contextual fit of entrepreneurial processes, International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 2(4), 1-23.
Davidsson, P. (2010). Media lecture on pingpong: What is entrepreneurship. Retrieved 2010-09-17 from: Jönköping International Business School's Website: https://pingpong.hj.se/courseId/8043/courseDocsAndFiles.do
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