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This book describes several vital principles of what constitutes an entrepreneurial culture. The most important principle of an entrepreneurial culture is that entrepreneurship is for everyone, and people can assume the economic function of the entrepreneur easier than ever before in human history. Further, the market institutions allow everyone to participate in the marketplace. Human interaction and cooperation are the essences of entrepreneurship carried out in the marketplace. This book casts light on the most critical fact: entrepreneurship is for the few, the wealthy, or the lucky. This book debunks those narratives by explaining that entrepreneurship can be for anybody—for real people in the real world. Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone for the making of any society; it is within human nature to cooperate and do good through the marketplace mechanisms. An entrepreneurial culture grows out of the act of human cooperation.

Sujets

Entrepreneuriat

Business

Economics

Social sciences

Entrepreneurship

Employabilité, métiers et formations

Social Science

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Publié par	AuthorHouse
Date de parution	03 août 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781665567329
Langue	English

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In Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Culture

RAUSHAN GROSS

AuthorHouse™
1663 Liberty Drive
Bloomington, IN 47403
www.authorhouse.com
Phone: 833-262-8899

© 2022 Raushan Gross. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 08/02/2022

ISBN: 978-1-6655-6731-2 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6732-9 (e)

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
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Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

To my wife, Melinda, and our beautiful and intelligent children, Harrison and Harper. And to my students who play such a large part in this journey.

Contents
Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 1 The Relentless Benefit of Market Competition
Chapter 2 Entrepreneurial Leadership
Chapter 3 Entrepreneurs Do Not Fail
Chapter 4 Consuming Is Social Coordination of Choice
Chapter 5 Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are
Chapter 6 The Rise of the Consumer-Entrepreneur
Chapter 7 The Good Entrepreneur
Part 2
Chapter 8 A World without Entrepreneurs
Chapter 9 A Culture and History of Entrepreneurship
Chapter 10 Let Market Conditions Decide: The Ideal Age of an Entrepreneur
Chapter 11 Entrepreneurship for the Younger Generations
Part 3
Chapter 12 Marketing and Advertising
Chapter 13 It’s Not What Customers Say, It’s What They Do
Chapter 14 Less Competition Means Less Consumer Happiness
Chapter 15 A Bird in the Hand Is Worth One in the Hand, Not Two in the Bush
Chapter 16 Learning from the Marketplace
Chapter 17 Society’s Entrepreneurial Engine
Chapter 18 An Unevenly Distributed World
Chapter 19 The Rise of the Digital Hand and the Emerging Class of Digitalpreneurs
Chapter 20 Are Digital Market Spaces the Last Free-Market Frontier?

Conclusion

Introduction
The world is ever changing, which we all know so well. But in many ways, there is a conception of the world as being stationary. A stationary world does not account for major or minor changes, adjustments, or a pursuit of the highest level of economic growth. A stationary mindset implies an economy that does not grow and that is without self-generating pockets for creative people to act as creators. Here we trace a clear but abstract economic pattern. There is a marketplace pattern. The pattern is best described as relentless pursuits by entrepreneurs who address the old and figure out the new. Newness and economic development abound throughout history. History is one of the greatest economic analytical tools, as it reports the transition effects of a changing economy, resources, migrations, cultural amalgamation, and the genius that resulted in one state of living to a better state of living via entrepreneurs’ relentless pursuits of market opportunity and a better way of doing things.
Not all that glitters is gold. I do not purport that all forms of entrepreneurship are in the best interests of humanity, nor are all entrepreneurs ethical. For sure, in the past, some entrepreneurs have conducted themselves in unethical ways. Ethical entrepreneurial conduct, while important in how society holds sacred values and customs that are conducive to morality, nevertheless is not the immediate aim of this book. With most things, one bad apple cannot spoil the bunch. This book seeks to capture the meaning and nature of personal experience as an individual entrepreneur, and of society at large partaking in the entrepreneurial function of a marketplace. Each person, as part of the larger whole, exercises subjectivity—a brand of subjectivity that refers to how the “inner conscious life of the human persons, while maintaining an inner life, remain open to the world around them.” 1
Along with ethics is the notion that with freedom comes responsibility. Freedom and an ethical culture of entrepreneurship is peaceful entrepreneurship; in this sense, entrepreneurship as an act in the marketplace using tools and knowledge. This knowledge has accumulated in human society because of the experiences of civilization and the explicit knowledge that has been “passed down on to successive generations embody on the results of experience without the whole of the experience being transmitted.” 2 Simply put, you, me, and everyone else are entrepreneurs with various consequential effects as to our impact on investments and use of resources, but the act itself has been handed down through means of culture as an accumulated stock of knowledge from generations past, much of which is least understood.
What is the entrepreneur without the accumulated store of knowledge on how to use resources, understanding of the transmission of knowledge via prices, and skill to enter markets both far and near? In fact, knowledge of and discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities are thus apparent because of the use of information and the application of knowledge pertaining to a market that one does not have to obtain on one’s own. The discovery process is unarticulated and, in many cases, unintelligible to the nonactor. But real people, on the other hand, need a different kind of knowledge, something akin to a process or a ritual that works as a guidepost to know what is profitable and what is not, what is going to serve someone else or not. Real people seek to use the available knowledge of others to increase their efforts in entrepreneurial pursuits.
This book explores the contrary stationary and unchanging conception of the world. In fact, what is highlighted and much needed is to show the relentless pursuit of a culture of a constantly changing world. The catalyst of a less static world via a market economy is entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurs who are consistently moving toward growth. Unlike many books on entrepreneurship, this book views entrepreneurship as a force propagated by you and me. In a broad sense, we are all entrepreneurs and are affected by the market function of entrepreneurship. However, there are long-run and short-run stabilities and instabilities created by the ebb and flow of entrepreneurial activity. This is well-known and tends to be factual according to historical accounts. Certainly, entrepreneurs can create from a heterogeneous stock of personal resources, but the opportunity and the ability to grasp a discovery can have the allure of a creatio ex nihilo —creation out of nothing.
Further, the action that underpins entrepreneurship is to a large extent a creative endeavor because it is the inarticulate mandate toward the discovery process. In other words, the creativity that goes into the inarticulate rules involved in the discovery of profitable opportunity is by its very nature impregnated in the production of the discovery process itself. Glückel of Hameln said it best in describing the entrepreneurial creative process: “He can make much out of little, how Judah Berlin with a capital as good as nothing achieved great wealth and so become a great man.” 3 Glückel of Hameln’s point is that the creative aspect of entrepreneurship has been as persistent today as it has during the fifteenth century experienced by Glückel centuries ago. In the context of entrepreneurship, an age-old tradition, therefore, is the creation of something from nothing. It is real people creating better lives via the formation of capital, finding an inarticulate discovery brought about by productive purposes, and thereby, serving themselves and others, sometimes as if from nothing to something.
However, these short-run and long-run changes in techniques, inventions, and healthy investments overshadow the adverse effects and pitfalls of malinvestments on the part of entrepreneurs. Changes occur, as few things are fixed. This notion can be drawn out through a historical analysis. However, the idea is that people have goals and plans, and those goals and plans change, and those changes affect other people directly or indirectly. Any change in circumstances forces individuals to either act or not to act. Future development is influenced by previous development. The fact of the following assertions is predicated on the persistence of a culture that rewards actors to assume risk; actors in the marketplace respond to market forces because market forces are ever changing. A culture such as an entrepreneurial one encompasses changes to language, money, demand, supply, consumer preferences, value scales, prices, marketing, and technology. The entrepreneurial culture is social practices—visible and invisible—human interaction conveyed in language, laws, customs, knowledge, and capabilities in the market economy. Humans socially interacting using intelligence is “the expression of man’s response to the changing problems set by the environment and by his fellow men … For meeting any new situation, new thoughts, new aptitudes, new action will be required.” 4
Entrepreneurs always act in response to current conditions to obtain prospects that are future oriented. Action is a human condition where one’s actions are pointed to a future state rather than a past state. Action in the human form is directed toward a better state or condition than the