'Who is an entrepreneur?' Is the wrong question

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is the creation of organizations. What differentiates entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs is that entrepreneurs create organizations, while non-entre- preneurs do not. In behavioral approaches to the study of entrepreneurship an entre- preneur is seen as a set of activities involved in organization creation, while in trait approaches an entrepreneur is a set of personality traits and characteristics. This paper argues that trait approaches have been unfruitful and that behavioral ap- proaches will be a more productive perspective for future research in entrepreneurship.