Manager, Entrepreneur and Leader: A Quest for Possible Convergence of Functions in the Promotion of Social Business
By: Datta, Samar K
Contributor(s): Chakrabarti, Milindo
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ArticlePublisher: 2015Description: 773 - 781Subject(s): Edi Faculty Papers | Social Business | Leader | Entrepreneur | Manager | Entrepreneurship | Social Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship | Eleventh Biennial Conference On Entrepre | Biennial Conference PapersOnline resources: Click here to access online
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Eleventh Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Dinesh Awasthi, Ganapathi BatthiniSummary: In the absence of a unique theory of entrepreneurship or leadership, an attempt is being made to apply several modern tools and concepts of economics - namely, rent-seeking versus profit-seeking, collective action theory and Coase Theorem to redefine the observed roles of these important economic agents. While all three are found to be engaged in collective action process to achieve some common goals of their stakeholders, this process tends to be broader in terms of scale and scope as a manager goes up the ladder to assume the role of an entrepreneur or even a leader. While a manager manages only a limited number of stakeholders to maximize private profits, the collective action process becomes broader and dynamic in the hands of entrepreneurs bringing in periodic innovations to start up new business or significantly renew an existing business. An entrepreneur becomes a leader when he involves a social process bringing in fresh stakeholders to internalize possible negative externalities and redefine property rights across broader group to maximize the value of their common assets. Leadership thus tends to go beyond supernormal profits or private rent earning to maximize long...
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In the absence of a unique theory of entrepreneurship or leadership, an attempt is being made to apply several modern tools and concepts of economics - namely, rent-seeking versus profit-seeking, collective action theory and Coase Theorem to redefine the observed roles of these important economic agents. While all three are found to be engaged in collective action process to achieve some common goals of their stakeholders, this process tends to be broader in terms of scale and scope as a manager goes up the ladder to assume the role of an entrepreneur or even a leader. While a manager manages only a limited number of stakeholders to maximize private profits, the collective action process becomes broader and dynamic in the hands of entrepreneurs bringing in periodic innovations to start up new business or significantly renew an existing business. An entrepreneur becomes a leader when he involves a social process bringing in fresh stakeholders to internalize possible negative externalities and redefine property rights across broader group to maximize the value of their common assets. Leadership thus tends to go beyond supernormal profits or private rent earning to maximize long...
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