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Entrepreneurship:Evolutionary Development-Revolutionary Impact
Entrepreneurship:Evolutionary Development-Revolutionary Impact
Development- Revolutionary
Impact
Donald F. Kuratko
Research
Researchandand Speeches,
Speeches,
Direct
Direct
Popular
Popular Seminars
Seminarsand
and
Observation
Observation
Publications
Publications Presentations
Presentations
The
The
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurial
Mindset
Mindset
Imagination
Imagination
Acceptance
Acceptance
Flexibility
Flexibility of
of Risks
Risks
Source: John A. Hornaday, “Research about Living Entrepreneurs,” in Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, ed. Calvin
Kent, Donald Sexton, and Karl Vesper, © 1982, 26–27. Adapted by permission of Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
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Entrepreneurship Theory
• Entrepreneurs cause entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship is a function of the entrepreneur:
Entrepreneurship is the interaction of skills related to inner control, planning and goal setting, risk taking, innovation, reality perception, use of feedback, decision making, human relations, and independence.
E f (e )
• Delegating
• Exercising Rigorously
Source: Douglas W. Naffziger, Jeffrey S. Hornsby, and Donald F. Kuratko, “A Proposed Research
Model of Entrepreneurial Motivation,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (spring 1994): 33.
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