Habitual Entrepreneurship

Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - General grade: 1.3 European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel language: English abstract: Despite its apparent economic importance and increasing scientific devotion the field of entrepreneurship within the area of business sciences is quite young. However in the last decades research in the respective areas has grown rapidly meanwhile providing a considerable and presentable coverage of different topics and areas having brought forward several theories and concepts. Nevertheless there are still many blank fields left which urge for exploration. For example politicians cannot foster entrepreneurship in the most efficient way as there is no general agreement which group of entrepreneurs or type of ventures are the most welfare gaining ones. Also neither is it clear yet which entrepreneurial abilities are the most important ones nor how they can be acquired or conveyed.Generally acknowledged scholars as Shane/Venkataraman (2000) postulate to focus the research on the actual core of entrepreneurship the entrepreneur himself. In accordance with this point several authors further have agreed on focusing on multiple founders so-called habitual entrepreneurs supposably providing the best insights and the most valuable information about the field of entrepreneurship. As one of the precursors to this idea MacMillan expressed that researching anything else than habitual entrepreneurs actually leads to misleading results and besides in any other research area it is always the professionals and/or power users acting as the research objects. More recently Sarasvathy introduced a further extension of the concept: entrepreneurial re-search should shift its focus from the singular relation between one firm and the entrepreneur to a multilateral one. Thus the firms are to be considered instruments of the entrepreneur who is the actual research