Factors Influencing

Entrepreneurship

Ashish Kumar(05)
Sushil Mohan(33)
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 Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur which

is a French word meaning one who undertakes and
endeavor.
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship
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Factors..
 Individual
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Individual Fact…..
 1- Desire to do some thing new
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vNeed Achievement
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vSocial Status
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Individual Fact…..
 Educational background:
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vUp to a certain limit, it influence.

Occupational Background

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Environmental factors

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Political………….
 It consists of Political and Legal factors both.
 The countries like India has a greater impact of
these two.
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Economical…………
From a strictly economic point of view, it can be
said that the same factors which promote
economic development, account for the
emergence of entrepreneurship also.
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CAPITAL

LABOUR

RAW MATERIAL

MARKET
CAPITAL…………
 Capital is one of the most important perquisite to establish the
enterprise. Availability of capital facilitates the Entrepreneur to
bring together the Land of one, Machine of another, and Raw
Material of yet another to combine them to produce goods.
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 Capital is, therefore, regard as Lubricant to the process of

production.
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Labour………….
Availability of Labour
Quality rather than Quantity
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 Germany-1938
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Japan-1945 USA-1950
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Raw Material……..
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 The necessity of raw materials hardly needs

any emphasis for establishing any industrial
activity, and therefore, its influence in the
emergence of Entrepreneurship.
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Market………
 Customer’s prospect………….
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 Practically , monopoly in a particular market

becomes more influential for entrepreneurship
than a competitive market
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Source:http://iie.gov.in/
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TECHNOLOGICAL………
vAwareness of new Technology
vFore sight of new Technology
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 Socio-cultural factors influencing
Entrepreneurship
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Legitimacy of Entrepreneurship

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Social Mobility
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Marginality
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Security
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 Family background

Relatives, Friends and Teachers

Religion

Social status
 Legitimacy of Entrepreneurship
q Relevance of a system of norms and values within a socio-
cultural setting for the emergence of entrepreneurship.
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q Schumpeter recognizes importance of such legitimacy in

terms of appropriate social climate for entrepreneurship.
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q To increase the legitimacy of entrepreneurship, some scholars
have proposed the need for a change in traditional values,
which are assumes to be opposed to entrepreneurship
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q Scholars like McClelland also point out that a complete
change may not be necessary but traditional values can be
re interpreted and synthesized with newer values.
 Social Mobility

q Involve the degree of mobility, both social and geographical

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q The opinion that the social mobility is crucial for
entrepreneurial emergence is not unanimous
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q Some scholars have the view that a high degree of mobility is
conducive to entrepreneurship, in contrast there is another
group of scholars, think that a lack of mobility possibility
promotes entrepreneurship.
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 Marginality
q The term social marginality refers to a state of being excluded
from the social fabric and being treated as an outsider.
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 Security
q Several scholars have advocated entrepreneurial security as
an important facilitator of entrepreneurial behaviors
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q No consensus on amount of security needed
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q Peterson and Berger maintain that entrepreneurship is more
likely to emerge under tribulent condition than under
condition of equilibrium
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q Security is a significant factor for entrepreneurship

development because individuals may be fearful of losing
his economic assets by behaviouring entrepreneurially
 Family background
q Nature of family background
 Business background
 Non business background
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q Support by family whatever the background is…….
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 Relatives, Friends and Teachers
q Risk taking ability of all those
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q Confidence of all those on personnel
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q Willingness of all those to help
 Support systems for
entrepreneurship
q Informing businesses of the measures of the support systems
to entrepreneurship;
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q Disseminating information on the services provided by other

entrepreneurship supporting funds and foundations;
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q Providing free consultations to businesses in their starting

phase;
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q Providing the starting businesses with a package of the

related materials
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q Favorable market condition for the product to be introduced
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