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Under Article 2082 of the Civil Code (Book V, Title II, Chapter I, Section I) is defined as a business entrepreneur who practices professionally organized in order to produce or exchange of goods or services.
Consequently the company, the legal, economic activity is organized professionally in order to produce or exchange of goods or services.
Around the sixteenth century appear the first mentions of the word entrepreneur. With this name pointed to the mercenary troops hired to serve and powerful principles. Only in the eighteenth century, the definition of a modern entrepreneur takes the form (in the agricultural landowner, who in the manufacturing sector produced goods to be distributed, and the public realized that the infrastructure manager). In 1803 in his Traité d'économie politique Jean Baptiste Say described the central role of the entrepreneur in the world of capital, production, trade and consumption in 1912 and Joseph Schumpeter took up the role of innovation in the inputs made by the figure entrepreneur.
Today and in accordance with:
entrepreneur can be both a natural and legal persons;
economic activity means any activity to use the production factors (capital, labor and raw materials) to get a product (good or service):
goods and services that are the product of the company are only those which have an economic value of the goods or services that may be produced by the company without an exchange value are not " product "in an economic sense;
the target consumer market is essential for the existence of entrepreneurial activity: entrepreneurial activity must aim to meet the needs of others;
falls on the entrepreneur the business risk is the risk for the financial activity undertaken.
The company therefore has an objective (production or exchange of goods or services) and, in economic terms, must be conducted according to criteria that provide adequate coverage of costs with revenues.
So far the rules and norms (and some history).
E 'possible to say that we are all entrepreneurs
Whatever our job or what we do, unless we like it just blindly following orders we receive, whether we are company owners or managers or managers, or just employees or workers, if we have responsibilities and aspirations we are entrepreneurs, even if a company is only by ourselves.
Entrepreneur is one who works in a totally different way from operating as competitors. Entrepreneur is one who sees things that others can not. The entrepreneur is a visionary.
Passion, energy, enthusiasm and drive that is what distinguishes the successful entrepreneur from the rest.
An entrepreneur comes in an innovative sector in the sense of producing or distributing in different ways, adding, subtracting or improving features and benefits of the product or service of its rivals.
Someone said: "If you're not in business for money, for fun or for both of us doing there?". In fact, the most successful entrepreneurs love their work.
An ancient Japanese proverb states that "vision without action is daydreaming, but action without vision is a nightmare."
The question to be answered and then examine in depth is WHY '? Why we decided to become entrepreneurs. What prompted us to undertake a difficult and risky, which requires our full attention, which takes all our time.
why I decided to undertake can be various:
we no longer have the "job";
we are tired of working for others and we want to be independent
all'enalotto we won or received an inheritance;
by-case basis exists
company family;
we want to make our own interest, a hobby, in company;
we have a good idea.
There are therefore several reasons why we decided to take, but we must go deeper and discover our true objectives:
want to do something for others;
the field in which we operate is outdated and we see things otherwise;
vogliamo migliorare le condizioni economiche della nostra famiglia;
cerchiamo più soddisfazione nel lavoro;
è qualcosa che abbiamo sempre sognato.
Avere sempre presenti i nostri obiettivi ci aiuterà a superare i momenti difficili.
Qualunque sia la ragione e gli obiettivi per cui abbiamo iniziato, il vero motivo è che abbiamo un certo talento o attitudine per la parte operativa dell’impresa: l’amministrazione, la commercializzazione, la produzione. La competenza in queste aree è ovviamente importante per iniziare, ma il fatto è che l’area operativa dell’impresa è solo una parte che costituisce il ciclo di vita dell’impresa stessa. Questo ciclo di vita in generale consists of four phases:
start up is the real beginning of the company, or it may be the introduction of a new product or service or a new location in another country, or the introduction of a new department or function;
growth is the phase in which the company is spread through the sales, staff, organization, structure, research
continuity is the consolidation phase of the company;
reorganization is the most critical phase : change the market, they change the laws, change the relationship with human resources, our product or service becomes obsolete.
Understanding and overcoming stages of the life cycle of the company requires to have other skills that are not only those operations, but you must have expertise in logistics, distribution, marketing, human resources management. The synergy between these skills will allow us to grow and achieve its objectives.
Bibliography
Luciano Gallino, Sociology, Economics and Labour, Torino, Utet, 1989.
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Florence (Tübingen), 1965
FX Sutton, I think the American entrepreneur, Milan (Cambridge), 1972
