A business isn’t born in a vacuum
It is true, to a certain extent, that entrepreneurship is an innate talent. That spirit of initiative, the thrill of the challenge, that flair for business and the joy of making something that all true entrepreneurs possess are not things that you learn in school, and yet you can learn to become an entrepreneur in the sense that it does, in any event, require a setting that promotes the discovery and development of the entrepreneurial spirit. We don’t need to go as far back as Max Weber (whose famous essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a seminal study of the relationship between environment and entrepreneurship), but there can be no doubt that context can do much to help develop the new leaders of industry. And by context we mean various factors, such as education, religion, ethics, social setting, and institutional factors.
In order to better understand some of these aspects, “The importance and role of personal entrepreneurship training in the development of business culture and its challenges”, by Ghorbani Mahmouda and Partonia Soheilab of the Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran (Departments of Management and of Educational Mangaement, respectively), published just a few days ago in the Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management, makes for an interesting read.
The two authors describe entrepreneurship within an economic system based on the level of motivation and entrepreneurship training and on the allocation of credits and other mechanisms of business growth. As the authors explain, in order to trigger growth within an economy, “development and promotion of entrepreneurship culture and creating necessary platforms for youth employment in the society seems necessary”. Thus, schools and the education system are important, as is the dissemination of knowledge.
So it’s both nature and nurture, but we need to start young and within the proper setting. This may seem like an obvious observation, but it’s an important one. The culture of enterprise doesn’t arise out of nothing and cannot grow in a vacuum, and what makes this work even more interesting is that it comes out of Iran, a country that is certainly not an easy place in which to do business. But this emphasis on context also applies to Europe, and to Italy in particular.
The conclusion that can be drawn from this article is clear: a business may indeed arise from the mind of an individual, but it can only grow and create jobs and wealth if it finds fertile ground in which to establish its roots.
The importance and role of personal entrepreneurship training in the development of business culture and its challenges
Ghorbani Mahmouda, Partonia Soheilab
Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management
2014, Volume 4, Issue 5
It is true, to a certain extent, that entrepreneurship is an innate talent. That spirit of initiative, the thrill of the challenge, that flair for business and the joy of making something that all true entrepreneurs possess are not things that you learn in school, and yet you can learn to become an entrepreneur in the sense that it does, in any event, require a setting that promotes the discovery and development of the entrepreneurial spirit. We don’t need to go as far back as Max Weber (whose famous essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a seminal study of the relationship between environment and entrepreneurship), but there can be no doubt that context can do much to help develop the new leaders of industry. And by context we mean various factors, such as education, religion, ethics, social setting, and institutional factors.
In order to better understand some of these aspects, “The importance and role of personal entrepreneurship training in the development of business culture and its challenges”, by Ghorbani Mahmouda and Partonia Soheilab of the Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran (Departments of Management and of Educational Mangaement, respectively), published just a few days ago in the Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management, makes for an interesting read.
The two authors describe entrepreneurship within an economic system based on the level of motivation and entrepreneurship training and on the allocation of credits and other mechanisms of business growth. As the authors explain, in order to trigger growth within an economy, “development and promotion of entrepreneurship culture and creating necessary platforms for youth employment in the society seems necessary”. Thus, schools and the education system are important, as is the dissemination of knowledge.
So it’s both nature and nurture, but we need to start young and within the proper setting. This may seem like an obvious observation, but it’s an important one. The culture of enterprise doesn’t arise out of nothing and cannot grow in a vacuum, and what makes this work even more interesting is that it comes out of Iran, a country that is certainly not an easy place in which to do business. But this emphasis on context also applies to Europe, and to Italy in particular.
The conclusion that can be drawn from this article is clear: a business may indeed arise from the mind of an individual, but it can only grow and create jobs and wealth if it finds fertile ground in which to establish its roots.
The importance and role of personal entrepreneurship training in the development of business culture and its challenges
Ghorbani Mahmouda, Partonia Soheilab
Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management
2014, Volume 4, Issue 5