Small business and entrepreneurial venture in an economic conundrum

  • Received February 9, 2016;
    Accepted January 24, 2017;
    Published May 11, 2017
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    John Amolo , Stephen O. Migiro
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.15(1-1).2017.14
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    Volume 15 2017, Issue #1 (cont.), pp. 271-279
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Does small business add the same value as entrepreneurial venture to an economy? Entrepreneurial ventures are resilient to economic duress, while providing higher quality and quantity of jobs, products and services. A needed entrepreneurial economic omnipresence pervasively stimulates socio-economic mindset in opportunity, rather than resource pursuit. A managed economy is under challenge by a knowledge economy and the policies of the former have become irrelevant for the latter. The unpredictable economic times call for a flexibility associated with an entrepreneurial economy. In this presentation, a literature review was conducted to highlight this conundrum in an economy. The findings are that entrepreneurial ventures have their distinctive features from simply small business enterprise and are better served in an entrepreneurial economy than a managed economy.

The significance of an entrepreneurial business and economy for individuals and policy makers alike has never needed an emphasis as in the days of our economic volatility.

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