Entrepreneurship Theories and Contributions of

Entrepreneurship Theories and Contributions ofINTRODUCTION ENTREPRENEURIAL THEORIESRichard Cantillons theoryThe concept of the entrepreneur (Joseph Schumpeters theory) The entrepreneur and realise (Ludwig Von Misess theory) The redbrickization of entrepreneurship and entrepreneur (Alexander Gerschenkrons theory)CONTRIBUTIONSEconomical Development Job creation Economic commenceth Contribution to gross domestic convergence Evaluation of entrepreneurs success Social Contributions foot Improvement of standard of livingINTRODUCTIONOver the last a couple of(prenominal) decades, entrepreneurship has been a controversial topic in the midst of individuals and societies as researchers and economists cannot tot on what a concrete definition of an entrepreneur should be. Over and over again, tribe asked, awhat is an entrepreneur? To answer this question, its imperative that we witness a range of theories available today. slackly speaking, an entrepreneur is a leader who deals with ent repreneurship chall(a)enges to start a new venture, idea and/or enterprise in potential industries. For the most part, concourse argue that the edge aentrepreneur originated from a French economist by the name of Richard Cantillon. At that time, an entrepreneur is associated with the characteristic of go outingness to take the responsibilities for the consequences of risk and uncertainty anformer(a)(prenominal)wise know as a arisk-bearer. Today, entrepreneurs exist all over the contrary industries and they are churning the industries to become more competitive in nature. Many total that the entrepreneurial activity is critically substantial to flourish the parsimoniousness and the business concern industry (Cauthorn, 1989) and its required to move declamatory corporations forward through innovational changes. Although theorists cannot agree on traditional definition of an entrepreneur, they do, provided, agree on the importance of entrepreneurs role and responsibility in society and in the economy. For these reasons, I am required to examine the range of entrepreneurship theories and how entrepreneurs contribute to our economy and society.2.0 ENTREPRENEURIAL THEORIES2.1 Richard Cantillons theoryRichard Cantillon was a French economist who greatly contributed to both the economy and other areas of society in the latterly 17th century and early 18th century. He wrote a tote up of books and journals during his life and one in particular, aEssai sur la Natur du Commerce en General, that discussed and examine the role and characteristics of an entrepreneur. According to one famous economist, Murray Rothbard, Cantillon was the first theorist to coin the term entrepreneur. With Cantillons productive formulation, the entrepreneurs are the professional in solving on their tasks. He hires employees by paying for their labour prior to finish producing the product and testing it in the market first to see whether or not the goods leave behind sell. It is di fficult to determine the exact reaction of the consumer to our product and its prices. Therefore, sometimes, we may invest all of our money into renting land and paying wages to produce a product that does not regular sell. In that case, we lose all of our investments. This unpredictability of the consumers behaviours and responses to our products quality and prices is what Richard Cantillon would classify as arisk. As Cantillon would say, the individual who act as a market arbitrager and promises employees fixed income while dealing with the risk of unstable market price is a arisk-bearer an entrepreneur. Cantillon investigated that the entrepreneurs should be obligated for all the progress and consequences. For example, the entrepreneur should be a risk taker on his/her business whether it goes successful or not and he/she needs to be evaluated by the consumers in competitive market. In order to pay the wage for employees and land usage, the entrepreneur should earn the profit m uch more than his/her expenses. As the entrepreneur sustains an uncertain profit due to an uncertain selling price, they should maximise their selling quantities. According to Cantillon, the entrepreneur is an individual that balances between supplies and penurys in the economy.2.2 The Concept of The Entrepreneur (Joseph Schumpeters theory)This innovative trait was not highly considered as the most fundamental identity of an entrepreneurship back before Schumpeter made develop his theory. What he was investigating has been a factor that missed everyones take care at the time, but that is not definitive. The main reason why most people did not consider it is because economist cannot fit entrepreneurship into its theory for some reasons therefrom some sparings who already be excite done some work on entrepreneurship have the tendency to be follow Cantillons or Says mien of thinking. But, for Schumpeter, he needed to investigate other ways of defining entrepreneurship and move away from the traditional models or to search for an alternative understanding. He then detect that the entrepreneur provides a wide range of price options to have innovative trade and generally, they wish to buy materials with much cheaper price and sell them. Schumpeter used a different approach, compared to Cantillon, when defining his entrepreneur. He heavily emphasized the innovative characteristic as the main function of an entrepreneur. He stated that an entrepreneur is the person who creates new combinations from brisk goods and resources in the market. The entrepreneur mainly focuses on developing new products, discovering new markets, investigating new type of organization. From Schumpeters point of view, the entrepreneur is the person who guides new way to create a totally new product. In other words, it is necessary for both the entrepreneurs and consumers. Old industries have lost its usefulness as newly generated innovative methods are introduced because with the new methods, occupation will be more good. The firm will be able to produce more at a cut back cost. The production frontier will also be pushed outward. This makes old inventions obsolete and unwanted. Sometimes, even if the economy is depressed by some factors, there is adequate subject of stock requested and it motivates the entrepreneurs to start being innovative again. In this way of circulation, Schumpeter utilized entrepreneurship to clarify economic growth, structural change, and business circle by exemplifying his arrangement of economic and his ideas.2.3 The Entrepreneur and Profit (Ludwig Von Misess theory)In capitalism, the entrepreneurs decide whether to invest or not to invest for their production. If they are unsuccessful to generate in efficient and cheapest way those products that the clients are demanding most urgently, they would be suffered losses and are ultimately dismissed from their competitive entrepreneurial position. Other bust entrepreneurs who performe d better would be replaced their position. make decision is an essential activity for the entrepreneur. According to Ludwig Mises who was also Austrian economist, he said he determines for what purpose the factors of production should be employed. (Swedberg, p 91) Any other activities which entrepreneurs should perform are however unintentional to his entrepreneurial concern. Mises stated that there is a common rule that the difference between the entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. Non-entrepreneurs would be disturbed profit how it should be maximised with other sources. The entrepreneurs are not always perfect of their execution of instruments due to some reasons. Their position would be reserved by them because they are more responsible and better fit for the performance than other people are in business dealing. They make profit not because they are smart in achieving their job but they are smarter than other people are. They are not unerring and sometimes making error bu t they are less responsible and confused less than other people do in entrepreneurship. After of all, Mises concluded his theory that an entrepreneur makes profit by serving the consumers which means the relationship between them is considerably necessary because the primary factor indicating the entrepreneur whether to be successful or not is how they deal with the people, especially the consumers.2.4 The Modernization of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur (Alexander Gerschenkrons theory)Many people will probably agree that the entrepreneurs are considered as the most essential element in the economy and its transformation. There are non-homogeneous ways to secure an entrepreneur and it has been argued the definition of entrepreneur for a long time. According to Gerschenkron, for his purpose, it is appropriate to say that economic decisions are determined by the entrepreneurs. Whether it is a small or big decision, or whether the market price has been incrementd or decreased, all decisions in this process can be called, entrepreneurial decisions. These days, the industry needs large amounts of fixed capital to operate their system because it requires the property, land and machinery. This means entrepreneurs should predict far ahead and be able to make the right decisions into the future. Gerschenkron said the modern industry was indivisible both from the part of technological and organisational movement. New approached to the economy would be continuously appeared and it should be developed for both the entrepreneurs and economy. Now only few numbers of entrepreneurs were innovators but most of them are mimics, who were called as asecondary wave by Schumpeter. The difference between the innovators and the mimics has not been identified clearly however every imitated product from mimics raises large numbers of technical and economical problems that has to be solved immediately. Generally, entrepreneursuse money as capital and employ staff in order to gener ate their production however it is very usual circulation how the industrialization is made of. The modern entrepreneurship should be created and new ways approaching to the entrepreneurship should be discovered to develop industrial revolution.ECONOMICS CONTRIBUTIONS3.1 Job CreationsAlthough the number of employment opportunity has been on decline recent, as a result of the economic downturn and various other many reasons, the role of entrepreneur has still been considered as the key agent responsibility over creation of jobs. Even though most people associate entrepreneurship with self-employment, it is important to notice that in most cases, regardless of how small or big the firm is, a new start-up by an entrepreneur, more lots than not, will generate jobs. Assuming that an entrepreneur is an innovative figure as argued by Schumpeter, then when he enters the market, he must be enter with either a new product or services or creating a completely new market segment. Because of th is innovative edge, their company will likely to grow as demand increases. This upward demand would require that the firm hires more people to increase production. That is how jobs get created. Especially at this stage in the economic recession, entrepreneur is a substantial agent in helping move the economy forward and reducing unemployment. According to a recent study in the United Kingdom, the unemployment rate has become a serious issue as the rate moves to climb higher and higher. The figure below illustrates an upward sloping chart indicating that the number of unemployment rate has risen as more and more people fail to obtain a job or get fired. (as cited in barter economics, 2010) From this point, the role of entrepreneurs has been emphasised and they should create more job opportunities. If the government just push for new firms that are not innovative, the firm will probably only provide the same old jobs instead of creating something innovative. The old jobs are not pr eferable because they do not help in pushing the production expertness upward. Therefore, we need to encourage the innovative designs of entrepreneurs to help push the production function outward through the creation of something innovative and then driving up demand, as a result of this creativeness, to alleviate unemployment.3.2 Economic GrowthIn a way, entrepreneurship and economic growth have a close connection with each other in the sense that when high levels of entrepreneurial activities are present, the economy seems to grow along with it as well. As Schumpeter have discussed in his papers, a growing number of entrepreneurs will boost up the development in economic growth. Swedberg (2000) stated that the significant changes in the economy cranial orbits would be managed by the entrepreneur and these important changes would be working slowly by themselves through the business circle. He also implied his thought of change was both economic aspects and social aspects. We stil l birth high volume of entrepreneurship would associate with economic growth and its development. Therefore, a large number of entrepreneurs should be encouraged to get involved in entrepreneurial activities and should continue to make progress in productive activities, because these activities will lead to economic development.3.3 Contribution to GDPOver the last few years, the entrepreneurs had contributed tremendously to the recovery of the economy by sustaining or boosting GDP growth, depending on the country. Though the total numbers of new business has slightly decreased, entrepreneurial enterprises still occupies a large pct of the total number of firms in the countrys GDP (Gross Domestic Profit). Take the private sector in Vietnam for example, it has been estimated that the number of enterprises account for 39 percent of the countrys total GDP (aEntrepreneurs contributions to national development, n.d.). It has stated that Vietnamese businesses and entrepreneurs have perfor med well in boosting up the national economy (aEntrepreneurs contributions to national development n.d.). When the entrepreneur enters the market with his or her creative idea, he or she will attract more consumers to the product because its new and innovative. As more people seek out the goods, the demand for the goods will increase. This increase in demand translates to more supplies being required. The firm will need to produce more to not only meet the increased demand in the domestic market, but it will also have to produce more to meet increased demand internationally as well. This increase in production contributes directly into the Gross Domestic Products.3.4 Evaluation of Entrepreneurs Success.Essential components to be successful in entrepreneurship are considered by many people. Based on its personality and characteristics, the performance of entrepreneur has direct impact to its success and it has been considered by four basic scales to decide whether they are successful or not. First, achievement in business field would be considered. It is the factual evidence how they are performing well in business and it should be first thing that should be indicated. Second, innovation in business should be considered. Based on innovators, it is always required to be innovative and acquisition of new change in business therefore entrepreneurs should be basal innovative and try to attempt to be reformer. Next, entrepreneur should perceive personal control of business consequence. It is important for both the entrepreneurs and individuals due to recognition of business trends and movement. Lastly, entrepreneurs should have self-esteem in their business. It helps dealing with consumers and building reputation.SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS3.5 InnovationDrucker (aInnovation and entrepreneurship Drucker, P. F.) has been telling us the story approximately William Conner, a salesperson in the medical checkup industry who decided to start up his own business. Corner begins by having discussions about the problems that surgeons faced during their operations. From these discussions, he was able to learn a lot about the process of a cataract surgery and how it was amazingly easy to operate. While operating, surgeons must make sure that they cut one ligament that has proven to be risky. Conner researched further and erudite that theres an enzyme that can melt away those ligaments. He also figured out how to preserve these enzymes during operation procedures. Soon after, he received a patent for his product and that compelled him to enter the niche market with his new way to surgically remove cataracts. With the use of this case, Drucker illustrated how entrepreneurial activities can bring about innovation. William Conner did not care as well much about the cataract surgery he cared about making profits. It just so happened that when he tried to make the profit, he also contributed to society by inventing something new and purifys in its ability to make people healthier. Although, we probably guess how the population will be changing in next few years, it will be so hard to get this kind of chance. These days, many entrepreneurs try to concentrate on a specific industry and on opportunities that already exist, even if its in small and declining industry. Therefore, once again, we must arrange and create policies that can encourage entrepreneurs to be more innovative because their innovations can truly help improve life.3.6 Improvement standards of livingThe industrial revolution was considered as one of the most important historical stage in terms of how it helped to improve the standards of living. Increase productivities, innovations, demand and economic growth have all combine to increase and improve employment opportunities. People who never had a job before now have a mean to make money and people who previously had jobs now can move on to a better paying job. With this new income, or increased income, people will be able to p urchase more goods to make their life better and healthier. Entrepreneurship plays a significant role in this return in standards of living. 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