“Who Is an Entrepreneur?†Is the Wrong Question

William B. Gartner

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 1989, vol. 13, issue 4, 47-68

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is the creation of organizations. What differentiates entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs is that entrepreneurs create organizations, while non-entrepreneurs do not. In behavioral approaches to the study of entrepreneurship an entrepreneur is seen as a set of activities involved in organization creation, while in trait approaches an entrepreneur is a set of personality traits and characteristics. This paper argues that trait approaches have been unfruitful and that behavioral approaches will be a more productive perspective for future research in entrepreneurship.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1177/104225878901300406

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