Enterprise, Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship - the Main Semantic Chain in Contemporary Economics

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the classical and modern definitions of enterprise, entrepreneur, and entrepreneurship, and of their new meanings, during the contemporary crisis. The consequences are relevant for improving the understanding of the importance of this concept of entrepreneurship in the higher education system. One can include in the category of the new conceptualizations the most recent entrepreneurial concepts, instruments, methods and solutions that exist on a globalized or international market. An extended of entrepreneurial thinking type includes the entire semantic chain from enterprise to entrepreneur, and finally to entrepreneurship, but without being able to fully define it. Some conclusions are relative indeed, just as truth itself, somewhere midway. The final remark is that when we try to pick up anything by itself from the concept of entrepreneurship, we find out enterprise, entrepreneur and entrepreneurship being “attached“ to everything else in the market economies’ universe.

Cuvinte-cheie: întreprindere, antreprenor, antreprenoriat, lanţ, economie

REZUMAT

Articolul expune, în ansamblu, atât definiţiile clasice şi moderne ale termenilor „întreprindere”, „antreprenor” şi „antreprenoriat”, cât şi conotaţiile acestora în contextul crizei economice contemporane. Expunerea în cauză este extrem de necesară înţelegerii importanţei antreprenoriatului, mai cu seamă, în sistemul universitar de educaţie. În conceptualizările cele mai recente, de rând cu antreprenoriatul, pot fi incluse şi instrumentele, metodele şi soluţiile care se înregistrează pe piaţa globală sau cea internaţională. O mentalitate „antreprenorială” include în sine tot lanţul semantic de la întreprindere la antreprenor şi de la acesta din urmă la antreprenoriat, fără a fi capabilă încă să-l definească total pe ultimul. Unele dintre concluziile ce se impun, în acest caz, sunt relative ca şi adevărul propriu-zis. Totuşi atunci când încercăm să desprindem ceva individual în conceptul de antreprenoriat, observăm că întreprinderea, antreprenorul şi chiar antreprenoriatul pot fi raportate la tot ce există în universul economiei de piaţă.

LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION

English

UDC: 811.111`276.6:33

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Received: March 8, 2010 | Reviewed: March 18, 2010 | Accepted for publication: March 25, 2010

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