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Cuadernos de Administración (Universidad del Valle)
Print version ISSN 0120-4645
Abstract
MARULANDA VALENCIA, Flor Ã.; MONTOYA RESTREPO, Iván A. and VELEZ RESTREPO, Juan M.. Theoretical and Empirical Contributions to the Study of Entrepreneurs. cuad.adm. [online]. 2014, vol.30, n.51, pp.89-99. ISSN 0120-4645.
Entrepreneurship, especially understood as creation of new enterprises, is a topic of growing interest because, among other causes, of unemployment that stopped being a problem of third-world countries to become a global concern. In its contribution to understanding the phenomenon of "undertaking" and in the figure of the entrepreneurs as its leading players, academics present a series of theoretical proposals to explain their individual characteristics. This work presents an exploration of the main approaches that seek to describe entrepreneurs, starting from a classification proposed based on the literature review on the topic
Keywords : characteristics; entrepreneur; entrepreneurship; approaches.