La théorie de l’entrepreneur, son évolution et sa contextualisation

Sophie Boutillier () and André Tiran ()
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Sophie Boutillier: CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ULCO - Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, RRI - Réseau de Recherche sur l'Innovation
André Tiran: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Few economists have considered that the entrepreneur is at the center of the global dynamics of capitalism, which is more important than the economic actor itself. Nevertheless, three economists, Cantillon, Say, and Schumpeter, have developed an analysis where the entrepreneur is the main economic engine of the global process of capital accumulation. In their analysis, the entrepreneur is not an individual, but an economic function which represents a systemic link between socioeconomic structures of capitalism and entrepreneurial motivations (profit, challenge, social recognition, innovation, etc.), which makes it possible to understand their decisions and to analyze their consequences on the business cycles. From these historical foundations of the economic analysis of entrepreneurship, other economists have developed their analysis according to the economic and social problems (innovation, unemployment, employment, etc.) of their time.

Keywords: Entrepreneur; History; Structures; Individual; Capitalism; individu; structures; capitalisme; entrepreneur; histoire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Innovations - Revue d’économie et de management de l'innovation, 2016, 2 (50), pp.211-234. ⟨10.3917/inno.050.0211⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/inno.050.0211

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