 Racehorses or Rabbits? Are Entrepreneurs a Scarce Resource?Mark Holmström
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, 1999, vol. 8, issue 2, 135-145 Abstract: Why study entrepreneurs? Is the presence of a class of entrepreneurs, or entrepre neurial personalities, the critical scarce resource which makes development possi ble or inevitable? Or will entrepreneurs emerge anywhere, like rabbits, if conditions are right? The question is urgent in the context of India's liberalisation. This paper argues that the sources ofeconomic development are more complex. A wider range of institutions and political factors have to be considered: some are suscep tible to social engineering, planning, and political choice. This approach has been developed in recent research on institutional economics, business systems, and flexible specialisation, and shifts attention awayfrom entrepreneurship to the eco nomic, technological, moral, institutional, and political conditions for develop ment. Entrepreneurs are a valuable resource but not the critical resource which makes all the difference: not rare and valuable creatures like racehorses, nor common as rabbits, but useful animals like bullocks, which sometimes work best alone, sometimes in teams. Date: 1999 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:jouent:v:8:y:1999:i:2:p:135-145 DOI: 10.1177/097135579900800201 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies from Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India |
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