Nature or nurture? Of course it has at least something to do with the individual, but no entrepreneur is an island. To be successful, it takes context; it takes circumstances, and it takes other men and women. A business is a community, not an individual.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entrepreneur\u2019s \u2018resource potential\u2019 and the organic square of entrepreneurship: definition and application to the French case\u201d, by Dimitri Uzunidis, Sophie Boutillier and Blandine Laperche (and recently published in the Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship), takes a close look at this intersection of individual potential, conditioning and social opportunity that eventually gives life to an entrepreneur and his business. It makes for an interesting study, one that starts from a specific theory and then looks at a practical case study of businesses in France.<\/p>\n
As the authors explain, the purpose of this work is to study the origin of the entrepreneur and the conditions required for success. It all begins with the individual before then seeking to understand what makes up the entrepreneur\u2019s \u201cresource potential\u201d. So one may not be born an entrepreneur, but it does take something in order to get started\u2014a union of knowledge, character, relationships and financial resources. Then comes all the rest\u2014what really brings this potential to the fore and allows it to develop\u2014the socio-economic context that Uzunidis, Boutillier and Laperche describe in an intriguing manner, as the \u201corganic square of entrepreneurship\u201d, i.e. a virtual setting in which the entrepreneur\u2019s potential, the marketplace, the layout of the economy and public policy all come together. Or coming back to our initial idea, even the most talented entrepreneurs can\u2019t do it all on their own.<\/p>\n
This is all then \u201ctested\u201d on the French economy and system of enterprise by analysing the practical implications of this theory. Then, through a series of statistical calculations, the authors determine why and how French entrepreneurs come to be and then further develop.<\/p>\n
But the work of Uzunidis et al. is also interesting for another idea that it offers. Looking at the conditions needed for an entrepreneur to be born, the authors explain that the more prominent the entrepreneur on the economic scene, the more important these conditions become. One line from the paper is particularly striking: \u201cThe entrepreneur is also at the heart of the political debate, his existence and durability being considered as the reason for economic growth.\u201d<\/p>
The entrepreneur\u2019s \u2018resource potential\u2019 and the organic square of entrepreneurship: definition and application to the French case<\/strong><\/p>\n Dimitri Uzunidis, Sophie Boutillier, Blandine Laperche<\/p>\n Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2014, 3:1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nature or nurture? Of course it has at least something to do with the individual, but no entrepreneur is an island. To be successful, it takes context; it takes circumstances, and it takes other men and women. A business is a community, not an individual. \u201cThe entrepreneur\u2019s \u2018resource potential\u2019 and the organic square of entrepreneurship: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-culture","category-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n