Entrepreneurial Endeavor

An Entrepreneurial Endeavor is an opportunistic endeavor that requires significant speculation about future available resources.

• AKA: Entrepreneurship.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • starting a Web-search company without a funding model.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Self-Funded Project.
• See: Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, Business Model, Scott Stern.

---

---

References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship Retrieved:2015-3-14.
  • Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business or other organization. The entrepreneur develops a business model, acquires the human and other required resources, and is fully responsible for its success or failure. Entrepreneurship operates within an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

2007

• (Sharma & Chrisman, 2007) ⇒ Pramodita Sharma, and Sankaran James J. Chrisman. (2007). “Toward a Reconciliation of the Definitional Issues in the Field of Corporate Entrepreneurship *.” In: Entrepreneurship, pp. 83-103 . Springer Berlin Heidelberg,

2000

• (Stevenson, 2000) ⇒ Howard H. Stevenson. (2000). “Why Entrepreneurship Has Won." Coleman White Paper
  • QUOTE: Never before in history have so many individuals been able to identify and implement the definition, which we use to guide our research and teaching at Harvard. That definition is: “Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control.” (Stevenson 1983, 1985, 1990). This definition takes into account both the individual and the society in which the individual is embedded. The individual identifies an opportunity to be pursued, then, as an entrepreneur, must seek the resources from the broader society. This approach follows on the work of early scholars such as Schumpeter who identified the interaction of the individual with the context in his early work (Schumpeter 1934). It corresponds to later admonitions such as those of Aldrich (1992) who argued that individuals, organizations and the context need to be studied to develop a theory of entrepreneurship.

1995

• (Wick & n, 1995) ⇒ Calhoun W . Wick, and Lu Stanton León. (1995). “From Ideas to Action: Creating a Learning Organization." Human Resource Management 34, no. 2
  • QUOTE: … role of a clear vision. Pointing to a diagram of the four key business segments served by Coming, he said, “By clearly defining what businesses we want to be in, we then know what not to do. Time after time someone will come...

1985

• Stevenson H 1985, “The Heart of Entrepreneurship.” Harvard Business Review, March-April, pp. 85-94

1983

• Stevenson H 1983, “A Perspective On Entrepreneurship.” Harvard Business School Working Paper #9-384-131

---