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Dos caras de la capacidad empresarial: una alternativa a la noción popular

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  • Dieter Bögenhold

    (Universidad de Saarlandes)

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Entrepreneurship has become a prominent and strategically important issue when talking about the driving forces of prosperity and job creation. However, entrepreneurship seems to be poorly defined. The paper studies central assumptions by questioning what many contemporaries take for granted. The paper shows that it is necessary to define the term “entrepreneurship”. Recent arguments should distinguish the difference, sometimes contradictory, between the phenomenon of dynamic fast growing firms and that of the emergence of new microenterprises of the self-employed that have neither the intention nor the possibility of growing. Economic policy debate should specify more precisely what is really meant when talking about entrepreneurship.

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  • Dieter Bögenhold, 2003. "Dos caras de la capacidad empresarial: una alternativa a la noción popular," Revista de Economía Institucional, Universidad Externado de Colombia - Facultad de Economía, vol. 5(8), pages 161-187, January-J.
    • Handle: RePEc:rei:ecoins:v:5:y:2003:i:8:p:161-187
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    Keywords

    entrepreneurship; self-employment; economic policy; service sector trends; labour market;
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    JEL classification:

    • D29 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Other
    • J49 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Other
    • L89 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Other

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