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Chapter 5 considered the different perspectives of the business professional and the business owner. It suggested that although much research into small businesses has taken the business as its unit of analysis, nevertheless the behaviour of many small businesses depends on the characteristics and aims of their founder- owners. Similarly, starting with Cantillon, many explorations of entrepreneurship have developed from the identification of the entrepreneur as the key component in the process of creating a new business venture. This chapter though looks at entrepreneurship from a people perspective and considers the position of new venture creation, or of other forms of enterprise, in the process of a person’s life. It considers how enterprise might fit into the life of the person involved, instead of how the person might fit into the life of the enterprise.
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For instance L. Hunter speaking at a University of Ulster seminar on ‘Developing a strategy and vision for social entrepreneurship’, Coleraine, 10 September 2007.
David Levitin quoted in M. Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (London: Allen Lane, 2008), p. 40.
See, for instance S. Bridge, C. Hegarty and S. Porter, ‘Rediscovering Enterprise: Exploring Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates’, a paper presented at the 31st Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Belfast, November 2008.
S. Bridge, B. Murtagh and K. O’Neill, Understanding the Social Economy and the Third Sector (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 38/9.
S. Shane, A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual Opportunity Nexus (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003).
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Bridge, S. (2010). An Enterprise is a Goal-Realisation Device. In: Rethinking Enterprise Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289833_9
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