Chiles: beyond creative destruction and entrepreneurial discovery
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Kirzner saw entrepreneurs as
- person who, through superior alertness, discovers opportunities in disequilibrium
- initiating a coordination process that moves the market toward equilibrium
Purpose
Lachmann sees entrepreneurial exploitation as a continuous recombinative process, he had two main theories
- Market process theory
- Capital theory
Theory
Most entrepreneurship scholars share same assumption
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Levels
Lachmanns work is multi-level
- his theories include different level of analysis, from individual to trough firm, industry, market etc.
- he recognizes connections among different levels, with high level processes affect low-level, high-level actors affect low-level etc.
Schumpeter saw entrepreneurs as
- heroic figures, uniquely possessing the will to introduce new cominations
- attack foundations of existing firms
- destroy equilibrium
Time Frame
Lachmann's creativity view, and social phenomena in general, leads to statements on prediction.
- prediction is difficult, especially about future
- as soon as we permit time to elapse, we must permit knowledge to change: there's a continuous change in knowledge
Purpose
Market process theory
Focus
Two processes are central in Lachmann's approach
- market process: entrepreneurs act on basis of expectations, and interact with other entrepreneurs and market participants
- capital (re)formation process: enterpreneurs (re)combine capital resources within a focal organization and interact with other org.
Purpose
Common purpose for entrepreneurial research
Lachmann's radical Austrian approach, has 6 key specifications that we use
- Purpose
- Theory
- Focus
- Levels
- Time
- Methos
Focus
Lachmann developed an institutional theory, and tackles three main points here
- Disequilibrium market and capital (re)formation processes appear embedded in and stabilized by institutional contexts
- to guide and coordinate individual action, institutions must be fixed and stable. At same time, they must adapt and change, as the environment changes
- He claims that the institutional order comprises complementary external and internal institutions
Lachmann is other Austrian economic (almost entirely ignored), he concluded
- that most markets not only achieve equilibrium, but may never even tend toward it.
- So, he breaks cleanly with the neoclassical paradigm
Methods
Lachmann rejects formal variance models, instead he embraces the
- process theory: researchers must explain sequence of events in time, pay attention to their ordering, to narrate the emergence of complex social phenomena
- We cannot predict future, but we can explain the past
Purpose
Lachmann has belief that entrepreneur must employ
- creative imagination
- capital resources
Two Austrian economics who have contributed the most valuable insights are
- Schumpeter studies entrepreneurship as a disquilibrium phenomenon, in which innovative entrepreneurs disrupt the existing market equilibrium to create disequilibrium
- Kirzner: arbitraging entrepreneurs move the market from initial disequilibrium to equilibrium
Theory
Lachmann, emphasized the continuously disequilibrating nature of entrepreneurship
Limitations on Kirzner understandings
- He says that entrepreneur do not create opportunities, but discover existing
- Neglects external intervention
- Doesnt acknowledge that entrepreneurs can perceive incorrectly
- Ignored that entrepreneurs need capital to exploit opportunities
Limitations on Schumpeters understandings
- He rejected subjectivism of human mind (failed to address entrepreneurial creativity)
- totally ignored why entrepreneurs suddenly intrude equilibrium
- his idea is that socialism can work, and entrepreneurship will be destroyed by own success
- he draw sharp distinction between capitalists and entrepreneurs
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