The fourth FACTOR OF PRODUCTION, after land, labour and capital, which organizes production and undertakes the risk of an enterprise. In JOINT STOCK COMPANIES, the risk bearing is undertaken by the shareholders; in small businesses, usually by the...

Entrepreneurs In general, entrepreneurs are enthusiastic and bright risk takers who are willing to take a chance and create new markets. In the computer industry, some have become very wealthy, very fast. During the last half of the twentieth century,...

"[An] entrepreneur is a person who habitually creates and innovates to build something of recognized value around perceived opportunities" (Kotelnikov Internet article). This "recognized value" should incorporate social and...

An entrepreneur is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. A female entrepreneur is...

Dilip Kotecha figured his working days were over when he retired from the food-manufacturing industry. But after an unused patent for instant yogurt landed in his lap, he couldn't resist turning the dormant technology into a business."I would say our company wouldn't even be there...

The head of a California-based veterans charity rebuffed accusations of mismanagement and self-dealing at a raucous congressional hearing Thursday, shouting over lawmakers to declare himself "the most honest person in this room.""I may be the only guy in the whole cotton-picking nonprofit establishment who's willing...

While at a summer barbecue with her brother and his friends, Joyce Kim checked her e-mail and saw an unfamiliar name.The e-mail was from a guy she'd supposedly met at a party who now wanted to take her out on a date. The only problem...

Veteran theater owner and entrepreneur Anthony De Santis has died at age 93 following a long battle with cancer, his family said.De Santis, who built the Drury Lane theater empire in the Chicago area, died Wednesday at his Oakbrook Terrace apartment that overlooked one of...

Being a business owner requires many qualities including the following: creativity, responsibility, an inquisitive nature, goal oriented, independent, self-demanding, self-fonfident, risk-taking, and a restlessness for success.