ABSTRACT

So far this book indicates that the search for entrepreneurship has taken place in the context of many different perceptions of what entrepreneurs are and has produced a variety of different defi nitions of entrepreneurship. Chapter 4 concludes that, although we might have assumed that entrepreneurship is essentially a single discrete phenomenon, a possible explanation for the variety of observations is that this assumption is wrong and that entrepreneurship as we have thus conceived it does not in reality exist. This chapter therefore revisits our concepts of entrepreneurship in the light of that conclusion.