Introduction
Entrepreneurs are defined as ‘adventurers’ by a French economist Jean-Baptiste Say. Entrepreneurs are advanced managers who are responsible for the production of land, capital, labor and other elements of the effective organization and management. They are adventurous and innovative. Entrepreneurs are totally different with and general directors, managers and other operators, the main performance of them is that entrepreneurs dare to take risks and be creative. Entrepreneurs are people who allows enterprises to legitimate business and have a continuous development of social responsibility. Entrepreneurs are also people who involved in the organization and management of an enterprise and corporate sponsors, managers, and investors in an enterprise are all eligible to become entrepreneurs. As Hornaday stated, there are many characteristics of entrepreneurs, which are self- confidence, perseverance, determination, energy diligence, resourcefulness, ability to take calculated risks, need to achieve, creativity and so on.
Entrepreneur are not a position or a title, its essence is a spirit which known as ‘Entrepreneurship’. There are two different perspectives for entrepreneurs. One is defined as ‘Entrepreneur is a way of thinking, reasoning and acting that is opportunity based, holistic in approach and leadership balanced.’ (Timmons & Spinelli, 2004) The other is defined as ‘Entrepreneurship is the process of creating something new of value by devoting the necessary time and effort, assuming the accompanying financial, psychic and social risks, and receiving the resulting rewards of monetary and personal satisfaction and independence.’ (Hisrich & Peters, 2008) Entrepreneurship includes the spirit of innovation, the spirit of adventure, the spirit of cooperation, the spirit of professionalism, the spirit of learning, the spirit of dedication and the spirit of integrity. This essay interviewed an entrepreneur I know to explore the importance of entrepreneurship in the company.
Start-up influences
The entrepreneur interviewed by me is called Jianchao. China’s economy began to grow slowly at that time. Jianchao lived in a less developed town and he started working at his age of twenty-two. At first, he was working in his father’s carpenter shop. He learned the skills from morning till night and produced wood appliances for customers. After a year of work, he has a certain savings and he set up a glass shop with his father’s help. From some literature of Entrepreneurs, it can be know that the entrepreneurs are divided into two perspectives, one is traditional entrepreneur, the other one is contemporary entrepreneur. According to economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), entrepreneurs are not necessarily motivated by profit but regard it as a standard for measuring achievement or success. As in the initial stage of the market economy, the marginal benefits of opportunities are far greater than the marginal benefits of management, even if there is no professional management it can still be very profitable. Entrepreneurs can do a great business, at least on a large scale. The main motive of traditional entrepreneurs is to master the right to promotion and reward and punishment. They are more inclined to achieve short-term goals for the company. While modern entrepreneurs pay more attention to independence and innovation and they prefer to achieve long-term goals for the company. Society is an ordered and structured organization. Everyone in the social structure of the network platform is always play a certain social role and the performance of certain social behavior. The analysis of social roles and their behavioral characteristics is the beginning of the study of the concept of specific social personas. Entrepreneur is a kind of occupation, is the social production of grass-roots organizers and managers, this is the entrepreneur’s social role. As with any other social role, the image of the entrepreneur’s social role is shaped by all its actions. ‘Economics growth and revitalization of nation are propelled best by ‘Entrepreneurs’. Entrepreneurs rationally combine the forces of production into a new production organization.’ (Tiwari and Tiwari, 2007)
In the carpenter’s shop, he and her father are more like the head of a classical family business. However, when he started building his own glass shop, he was already moving to a more modern entrepreneur.