Entrepreneurial versus ordinary enterprise in the economy

Abstract

Enterprises regard entrepreneurial behavior as essential lately if they perceive to survive in a world increasingly driven by accelerating change. Hereby academic and popular press suggests an inherently positive influence of entrepreneurial activity on the performance of an enterprise and the whole economy. Still there exists some kind of confusion for understanding and describing the particularity of entrepreneurial versus ordinary enterprise and that creates challenging problem for entrepreneurship researchers. This study aims to provide some clarification of entrepreneurial versus ordinal)' organization and to explore basic factors that force some enterprises behave entrepreneurially in the economy and others - just act in an ordinary way. To reach the aim, the theoretical framework of entrepreneurial versus ordinary enterprise, based on resent research in the field of entrepreneurship, was used.