Entrepreneurship - Alexandre, Laurice (The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible)
Entrepreneurship is a French word which describes the action of undertaking a venture. However, the concept of entrepreneurship is being expressed in other words such as small business. The concept is part of a multidisciplinary approach: economy, management, psychology, sociology, geography, gender, and education. While the entrepreneur of the sixteenth or eighteenth century was considered as an industrial, an innovator, or a manager, today the entrepreneur should play a large social and economic role and most of all create jobs. This is in light with Drucker’s (1985) definition “entrepreneurship is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” Research on entrepreneurship have started with Insudtrials, Economics, and Researchers but gained a lot of interest in Management from the 1970s. Many topics have been addressed such as: the psychological profile, the opportunity concept, the entrepreneurial intention, internationalization, education, business model, intrapreneurship, social and responsible entrepreneurship, gender, and so on.
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