Entrepreneurship Subject: Entrepreneurship Open Elective Book lending scheme: HD Nandan Department: ECM Section A & B Faculty: S.Sreekanth
Entrepreneurship
Subject: EntrepreneurshipOpen ElectiveBook lending scheme: HD NandanDepartment: ECM Section A & BFaculty: S.Sreekanth
Outline of the LectureMeaning of Entrepreneur
Different thoughts by Different authors
Qualities and Pre-requisites to become an Entrepreneur.
Meaning of Entrepreneur
The word “Entrepreneur” has been taken from the French Language
Enterprendre which means “ to undertake “ and meant to organize
musical or other entertainment programs.
Oxford Dictionary (1897) also defined entrepreneur as the director or
manager of a public musical institution
Evolution of the concept of entrepreneur
Period Connotations and meanings
Early 16th century Referred to persons engaged in military expeditions
17th century Extended to persons engaged in engineering activities such as constructions
Beginning of 18th century Used to refer to persons engaged in economic aspects of human activities
Meaning of Entrepreneur
Richard Cantillon (1725) an Irishman living in France was the first
who introduced the term “ entrepreneur “.
He defined entrepreneur as an agent who buys factors of production at
certain prices in order to combine them into product with a view to
selling it at uncertain prices in future.
Entrepreneur as organizer or coordinator
• Jean-Baptiste (1825) the French political economist defined
entrepreneur as one who combines the land of one, the labor of another
and the capital of yet another and thus produces the product.
• By selling the produce in the market he pays interest on capital, rent to
the landlord and wages to the laborers and what remains is his profit.
Entrepreneur as an innovator
• Joseph Schumpeter (1934). He considered economic development as a
discrete dynamic change brought by entrepreneur by instituting new
combinations of factors of production which he called innovation
Introduction of new product
Introduction of new method of production
Opening of new market
Joseph Schumpeter
• In the 20th century, economist Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) focused on how the
entrepreneur’s drive for innovation and improvement creates upheaval and change.
Schumpeter viewed entrepreneurship as a force of “creative destruction.” The
entrepreneur carries out “new combinations,” thereby helping render old industries
obsolete. Established ways of doing business are destroyed by the creation of new
and better ways to do them.
Peter Drucker’s Definition
Business expert Peter Drucker (1909-2005) took this idea further,
describing the entrepreneur as someone who actually searches for
change, responds to it, and exploits change as an opportunity. A quick
look at changes in communications—from typewriters to personal
computers to the Internet
National Knowledge commission (NKC)
• NKC (2008) has defined entrepreneurship as the professional
application of knowledge skills, and competencies of monetizing a
new idea, by an individual or a set of people by launching an enterprise
or diversifying from an existing one thus to pursue growth while
generating wealth employment and social good.
Advantages of Entrepreneurship over Employment
Employment Entrepreneurship
Work for others Own boss
Follow Instructions Makes own plans
Routine Job Creative activity
Earning is Fixed not negative Earnings range from maximum to minimum
Does not create wealth Does create wealth
Difference between Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship can be described as a process of setting up an enterprise.
Entrepreneurship is a creative activity.
Entrepreneurship is the attitude of mind to seek opportunities, take calculated risks
and derive benefits by setting up a venture.
Entrepreneurship is a process
Idea Generation
Availability of raw materials and Technology
Purchase of Machinery
Corpus fund Creation
Registration of SSI
Obtaining of No Objection Certificate
Difference contd…
Entrepreneur is a person who starts an enterprise. The process of creation is called entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur is the actor and entrepreneurship is the
act.The outcome of the actor and the act is called the enterprise.
Characteristics of a successful entrepreneur
Hard Work Perseverance
Desire for achievement Team Spirit
Highly optimistic
Independence
Foresight
Good organizer
Innovative
Categories of Entrepreneurs or Types
• Based on the Type of business:
Trading Entrepreneurs:
Manufacturing Entrepreneurs:
Agricultural Entrepreneur:
Based on ownership
Sole Trader (Single Owner Entity)Partnership ( Two or More Owned Entity)Private Entrepreneur: ( Capital Investor)State Entrepreneur: (SOE,State Owned Entity)Joint Entrepreneur:PPP (Public Private
Partnership)
Based on GenderMen Entrepreneurs:
Women Entrepreneurs:
Based on the size of the enterprise
Small scale : Investment from 25 Lakh up to 1 crore Rs on plant and
machinery
Medium Scale: above 1crore to below 5 crore Rs
Large Scale: anything above 5 crore Rs
Based on Clarence Danhof classification
Innovating Entrepreneurs:
Imitative Entrepreneurs:
Fabian Entrepreneurs:
Drone Entrepreneurs:
Intrapreneur
Intrapreneur is an entrepreneur within an already established
organization.(Dr.Radhakrishnan Chairman of ISRO
In big organizations the top executives are encouraged to catch hold of
new ideas and then convert these into products through research and
development
Difference between Intrapreneur and Entrepreneur
Bases of Difference Entrepreneur Intrapreneur
Dependency An Entrepreneur is independent in his operations
But an intrapreneur is dependent on the entrepreneur or owner
Raising of Funds An Entrepreneur himself raises funds required for the enterprise
Funds are not raised by the intrapreneur
Risk Entrepreneur bears the risk involved in the business
An intrapreneur does not fully bear the risk involved in the enterprise
Functions of an Entrepreneur
Identifying new venture opportunity (Think about a new idea ,carry
out a market research, know the competitors strengths and weaknesses.
Development of an idea
Planning a new venture( Prepare Project Report , estimate technical
know-how, know legal requirements for setting up a unit, plant
location
Functions of an Entrepreneur
Organizing a new venture(Choose the form of ownership, determine
organizational structure, ensure proper maintenance of records, obtain
clearance from all the boards. Obtain permit licenses , secure patent,
trademarks arrange for insurance and negotiate with the suppliers of
machinery and raw materials.
Functions of an Entrepreneur
Managing production Operations( Formulating purchasing policy and
inventory control.
Managing finance( Arrange own or borrowed capital, avail grants and
subsidies from Govt prepare financial budgets maintain proper books
of accounts prepare annual profit and loss statements and balance
sheets.
Functions of an Entrepreneur
Managing Work force( Arrange systematic man power planning ,
prepare job descriptions, select the right person for the right job.
Managing the Market( Market the product with the available
marketing techniques with right combination of 4p’s Product price
promotion and the place
Entrepreneurial Propensity
• Entrepreneurial Propensity is defined as Individual’s
favorable predisposition( Inclination or tendency) towards
new venture creation.
Individual Decision to start a business is influenced by the
personality of the individual who want to become an
entrepreneur and start up environment
Opportunity driven entrepreneurs (pull factors)
want to exploit a perceived business opportunity
strive for independence, self-actualisation, recognition and
profit maximization
on average they rise higher than necessity driven entrepreneurs
Necessity driven entrepreneurs (push factors)
Means of Second Resort
are pushed into entrepreneurship because all other options for work
are either absent or unsatisfactory dissatisfaction with working
conditions, contents and time pursue entrepreneurship to secure their
own existence
Impediments of Entrepreneurial Propensity in transition economies remnants of socialist attitude
Apathy
In Socialist Economies doing entrepreneurship is understood to counter social
norms.
Corruption
Red-tapism
Complications in the procedures
Risk taking Propensity
• Taking decisions and acting on an uncertainty is understood as a risk-
taking activity. Risk taking propensity is undoubtedly the most widely
discussed entrepreneurial trait. Although it has not been empirically
established that Risk taking is a distinguishing characteristic of
entrepreneurs there is almost universal agreement on the fact that it is
an essential trait found among entrepreneurs all over the world.
(Hisrich & Peters, 1998
Entrepreneurial Propensity
• In Western economies the entrepreneurial environment is “nutrient
rich” (shapero 1985) including access to information, knowledge
besides tangible resources such as capital . The legal framework is
designed to stimulate entrepreneurship and from a social cultural
perspective entrepreneurs possess an almost hero-like status (Welter
and smallbone ,2003)
Factors contributing to favorable Entrepreneurial Propensity
Individual Personality Traits have bearing on the entrepreneurial propensity.
Social Institutions or codes of conduct, values and norms that come from socially transmitted information is called as culture are important to the entrepreneurial spirit.
Entrepreneurial Propensity
• If there is any change in the social values and systems that
also modifies the individual’s value system in terms of
individualism, power distance, Masculinity and uncertainty
avoidance.
Locus of Control
• Locus of control in social psychology refers to the extent to
which individuals believe that they can control the events
that affect them
Locus of Control
Internal locus of control is defined as the personal belief that one has
influence over outcomes through ability, effort, or skills, whereas
external locus of control is the belief that external forces control
outcomes
External locus of control can be explained by people’s beliefs about
powerful others that influence their lives, as well as the influence of
blind fate, luck or chance.
Types of Locus of ControlInternal Locus of control in social psychology refers to the extent to
which individuals believe that they can tend to attribute outcomes of events to their own control the events that affect them
External locus of control attribute outcomes of events to external circumstances
Effect of Locus of Control
• Someone with an external locus of control is more likely to lose faith in their own
ability to change the environment than someone with an internal locus of control. As
a result, they are more likely to experience learned helplessness.
Difference between ILOC and ELOC
Individuals with a high internal locus of control believe that they
control their lives and that events result primarily from their own
behavior and actions. Individuals with a high external locus of control
believe that their environment, some higher power, fate, chance or
powerful others control their decisions and determine events.
Difference between ILOC and ELOC
• Those with a high internal locus of control have better control of their
behavior, tend to exhibit more political behaviors, and are more likely
to attempt to influence other people than those with a high external (or
low internal) locus of control.
Difference between ILOC and ELOC
• Those with a high internal locus of control are also more likely to
assume that their efforts will be successful and are more active in
seeking information and knowledge concerning their situation.
Internals are also more likely to work for achievements, to delay
gratification, and to plan for long-term goals, whereas externals are
more likely to lower their goals.
Difference between ILOC and ELOC
• There is also evidence in clinical research that internality correlates negatively with
anxiety, and that internals may be less prone to depression than externals, as well as
less prone to learned helplessness.
IPC locus of control I Internal locus of controlP powerful others C ChanceIPC is coined by Levenson (1974)
The values-locus control entrepreneurship model
Personal ValuesMasculinityCollectivism
Power distance Uncertainty avoidance
Locus of ControlInternal
Powerful otherChance
Entrepreneurial propensity
Power distance
• Power distance is the extent of respect for authority. Those who have a
higher power distance would have high tolerance for lack of autonomy
and show more tolerance in accepting power hierarchy. In large power
distance societies authoritarian and coercive power strategies perform
well.
Powerful others
• The greater an individual’s power distance, the greater the powerful
others locus of control.
Uncertainty Avoidance
• Uncertainty avoidance is defined as the extent to which members of a
culture feel threatened by uncertain or unknown situations. People with
high uncertainty avoidance have a low tolerance for uncertain
situations because of fear of indeterminate outcomes.
Entrepreneurial Propensity
• Shane (2003) surveys various personality traits which have been identified to
promote entrepreneurial activity. These include, i.e.., imagination and creativity,
internal locus of control and self-efficacy, extraversion, and need for achievement.
On the other hand, traits such as risk aversion and agreeableness are typical non-
entrepreneurial ones.
Entrepreneurial skills and qualities
Imagination and creativity
Need for achievement
Risk Taking Propensity
Leadership
Communication Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Social Responsibility
Schools of Entrepreneurship
The French Classical School (Richard Cantillon)
The British Classical School (Adam Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations)
Austrian and Neo-Austrian School of Thought (Kirzner)
Schumpeterian School of Thought (Schumpeter)
The French Classical School
• Most readers will notice that the word entrepreneur has a French
origin. Hoselitz (1960) suggests that it originated during the Middle
Ages when the term entrepreneur was applied to “..the man in charge
of the great architectural works: castles and fortifications, public
buildings,
French School
• In most entrepreneurship texts Cantillon is recognized as the first to
use the term ‘entrepreneurship’ Cantillon introduced an economic
system based on classes There are ‘landowners’ who are financially
independent aristocracy. ‘Hirelings’ and ‘entrepreneurs’ were viewed
to be financially dependent on others. Hirelings earned fixed incomes
while entrepreneurs were “…set up with a capital to conduct their
enterprise, or are undertakers of their own labor without capital, and
they may be regarded as living off uncertainty
French School
• For Cantillon individuals who purchased a good at a certain price, used
that good to produce a product and then sold that product at an
uncertain price could be considered ‘entrepreneurs’. Risk and
uncertainty
The British Classical School
• In France there was a clear distinction between the ownership of
capital or land and the ownership of property and business. Whereas in
England a capitalist was not only a creditor receiving interest on their
capital, but an active partner, sharing in the gains and losses of a
business (Tuttle, 1927).
Austrian and Neo-Austrian School of Thought
• These theorists regard uncertainty and risk as important
features of economic systems that allow entrepreneurs the
opportunity to make profit .
Austrian and Neo-Austrian School of Thought
• Knight argued against much of mainstream economics and explained that supply and
demand cannot be in equilibrium because in reality other forces change the
conditions of the market. In this situation of ‘disequilibrium’, Knight points out, that
a market must be in a constant state of uncertainty and entrepreneurship becomes the
skilful interpretation of market changes.
Austrian and Neo-Austrian School of Thought
• ‘Entrepreneurship’ is not only the propensity to pursue goals
efficiently, when the ends and means of those goals have
been identified but also the drive and alertness required to
identify which goals to pursue in the first place
Austrian and Neo-Austrian School of Thought
• It is the acquisition of market information and knowledge, from market
participation that helps provide this alertness to opportunity. But it is
also individual capacity to ‘envisage’ future opportunities that makes
‘correct’ perception of the market possible. ‘
Austrian and Neo-Austrian School of Thought
• Kirzner defines this ‘pure entrepreneur’ as a “decision-maker whose
entire role arises out of his alertness to hitherto unnoticed opportunities
Schumpeterian School of Thought
• Schumpeter introduced a concept of entrepreneurship which is quite
different from the others discussed so far. His theory is focused on
economic development
Schumpeterian School of Thought
• The function of the entrepreneur in this new theory was the person who
innovates or makes ‘new combinations’ of production possible. The
concept of ‘new combinations’ covered five potential cases:
Schumpeterian School of Thought
The introduction of a new good or a new quality of a good; The introduction of a new method of production; The opening of a new market;
The development of a new source of supply or raw-materials or half manufactured goods;
The carrying out of a new organization of any industry