The entrepreneur. A critical reflection on the current uses and meanings of a concept

Abstract

This paper consists of a general theoretical criticism of the entrepreneur as a concept currently employed in the social sciences. The rise, popularity, and consolidation of the term, to describe and conceptualize a new favourite agency of development, is described as the result of a modern society centred on the perception of social change as a result of individual action of some subjects conceptualized as heroes. The author reviews current hegemonic and peripheral notions of the entrepreneur, by analysing the content of a series of representative texts. Finally, the paper proposes a return to the etymological and theoretical origins of the term, which overcomes some of the epistemological problems of the current non-reflective and reductionist use of the concept.

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