ENTREPRENEURSHIP VARIATIONS: ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION AS A COMMODITY FORM

Authors

  • Fabio Bittencourt Meira Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Daniel da Silva Lacerda Montpellier Business School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25113/farol.v11i32.7988

Keywords:

Entrepreneurship, Agency, Commodity, Labor, Joseph Schumpeter

Abstract

Today, entrepreneurship seems to be able to refer to any and all intentional human action. This is a theoretical-ideological construction originating from a sui generis interpretation of Joseph Schumpeter's work, in which the proposition of a 'general theory of entrepreneurship' is converted into a 'theory of entrepreneurship in general'. This essay problematizes this construction, based on an analysis of Schumpeter's own texts. We call 'entrepreneurial agency' the theoretical maneuver that produces convergence between the form of economic action imbricated with the market and human labor in general, the result of which is an abstraction that refers to the transitivity of a general equivalent. This operation establishes an equivalence between the forms of intentional human action and the commodity. The circulation of entrepreneurship in countless variations is sustained by an ideological operation that subsumes it into the commodity form.

Author Biographies

Fabio Bittencourt Meira, Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutor em Administração pela EAESP/FGV, Professor Adjunto da EA-UFRGS, pesquisa na área de Estudos Organizacionais com interesse em organizações e formas de gestão alternativas, autogestão e economia solidária, ética e responsabilidade social empresarial, ideologia gerencial.

Daniel da Silva Lacerda, Montpellier Business School

Associate professor at Montpellier Business School. Research themes: Organizational Theory, Space and Organizations, International Development Management, Informal Economy, Critical Management Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis.

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2024-11-20

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