Based on the experience and research of the authors, all of whom are management consultants, this book deals with the personal traits and financial and external aspects of entrepreneurs. The text is directed at practising managers, would-be entrepreneurs and management advisors.
This paper presents a summary of research on entrepreneurs and discusses the trends in the development of the field. It begins by introducing the pioneers of the domain, Cantillon, Say and Schumpeter. The contribution of economists such as Knight, Hayek, Penrose, Kirzner and Casson are mentioned. A second section presents the contributions of the behaviorists and the characteristics most commonly attributed to entrepreneurs. From the 1980s onwards, the field of entrepreneurship exploded and was assimilated into almost every soft science discipline. Two separate trends one applied, the other theory-based began to emerge. Thus, the paper postulates that the field is in the process of dividing into two separate entities: entrepreneurship, the applied aspect, and entreprenology, the theoretical aspect.
Slogans such as “no future” have frequently been used recently to describe the unattractive situation of adolescents who are faced with enormous economic, social, and political problems and insecurities. It should be interesting to study how adolescents themselves anticipate and evaluate their future and which variations may exist among certain groups of adolescents. This should be especially interesting when pursuing the more general question of which function future orientation may have for the development of adolescents. One may assume that the way adolescents anticipate and evaluate their future influences their life planning, decision making, and behavior. One may even hypothesize that adolescents construct their own future according to the future orientation they develop.