Notion Of Enterprise Research Articles

СУТНІСТЬ ДЕФІНІЦІЇ ПОНЯТТЯ «ПІДПРИЄМНИЦЬКА СТРУКТУРА» ТА ПІДХОДИ ДО ЇЇ ТРАКТУВАННЯ

The paper discusses the implications of an entrepreneurial structure concept definitions widely employed within the scope of domestic scientific research along with summarizing a range of different perspectives on this concept interpretations. This study presents seven approaches to capture the essence of the entrepreneurial structure concept. According to the first approach, identification occurs of the concepts of an entrepreneurial structure and an enterprise in the frameworks of the traditional understanding of the latter. The second approach views entrepreneurial structure as a business entity. Both approaches view the notions of entrepreneurial structure and enterprise identically focusing on their economic autonomy. Under the third approach, an entrepreneurial structure is considered as a type of a commercial entity. This approach, like the previous ones, also identifies the concept of an enterprise and entrepreneurial structure, in this case with an emphasis on their commercial activity and registration as a legal entity. The fourth approach suggests the interpretation of an entrepreneurial structure as participants (the subjects) of market relationships, which considerably broadens our understanding against the traditional viewpoint. The fifth (systematic) approach allows for a more comprehensive study of an entrepreneurial structure as a complex object in terms of its perception as a single integral system. The proponents of the sixth approach identify the entrepreneurial structure concept with the notion of a company organizational structure. In the context of the seventh approach, the identification of the concepts of entrepreneurial structure and a business structure occurs. Based on the above approaches generalization, the findings discuss their benefits and shortcomings as to the interpretation of the concept under study and suggests the common characteristics of an entrepreneurial structure that are inherent to an enterprise, too. The study also revealed the essential differences between the notions of an enterprise and entrepreneurial structure which are manifested in the objectives of their activities, their business focus, organizational structure, the presence of representative offices and affiliated branches in their structure, demonstration of manufacturing, technological, economic and organisational unity as well as their financial autonomy. It is argued that. Conventional understanding of an enterprise as an independent entity and crucial element of the economy operating in the changing external environment should be expanded subject to modern global development trends towards evolutionary transformation of individual enterprises into business structures.

O Contrato de Subempreitada

The processing contract has a relevant role in the legal trade, insofar as they are varied purposes that can be achieve by using this deal. This contractual modality is most often associated with the construction of buildings, and a lot of those buildings built by contractors, related to the owners of the land through the conclusion of contracts. But the object of the contract does not end in the construction and repair of buildings. As we know, the business through which promises the construction or repair of moveable goods, such as automobiles, ships, furniture, also fall under the notion of enterprise.

‘Missionaries of the new era’: neoliberalism and NGOs in Palestine

This article explores the effects of the neoliberal development paradigm on the restructuring of social formations through the external funding and promotion of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Palestine, 1 and more precisely in the West Bank towns of Ramallah and al-Bireh; they are the ‘missionaries of the new era’. 2 It argues that neoliberal rationality aims at transforming societies and subjectivities around the notion of enterprise and weakens the collective national resistance movement.

Self as Enterprise

This article considers Foucault’s analysis of ordoliberal and neoliberal governmental reason and its reorganization of social relations around a notion of enterprise. I focus on the particular idea that the generalization of the enterprise form to social relations was conceptualized in such exhaustive terms that it encompassed subjectivity itself. Self as enterprise highlights, inter alia, dynamics of control in neoliberal regimes which operate through the organized proliferation of individual difference in an economized matrix. It also throws into question conceptions of individual autonomy that underpin much political thought and upon which ideas about political resistance are based. Self as enterprise also problematizes the viability of Foucault’s later work on ethics of the self as a practice of resistance. I go on to argue that Foucault’s discussion of an unresolved clash in civil society between monarchical and governmental power, between law and norm, offers an elliptical but more promising account of opposition to normalizing bio-power.

Understanding Enterprise

The idea of `Enterprise' has been extensively used in recent years as a way to understand the principles underlying the reinvention of organizations and employees. It tends to be used as a counterfactual to `bureaucracy'. However, we argue that while this approach has produced some rich insights, an over-emphasis on the notion of enterprise may exaggerate the reality of change. In this paper we focus on the ways in which top managers mediate the construct. We try to show that enterprises—even those `liberated' from bureaucratic regulation and constraint—need not necessarily be enterprising. This linkage has in the past been asserted but too frequently left unexplored. We suggest that an analysis of enterprising forms of organization requires a more nuanced and a more empirically-based understanding of the ways in which enterprise is interpreted and deployed within organizations which are apparently—on the surface at least—seemingly committed to `achieving enterprise'.

Freedom and autonomy in the university enterprise

PurposeThis paper seeks to explore notions of enterprise as an instance of organizational change within university business schools, using a theoretical approach drawn from the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Their concept of articulatory practice is useful for examining the management of knowledge workers across multiple levels of discourse, including policy, practice and processes of identification. Specifically, the paper aims to investigate the articulation of enterprise within government policy on higher education, management practices of directing, funding, measuring and regulating the activities of faculty in ways that seek to promote enterprise, as well as demonstrating how agents can resist attempts at top‐down managerial control through processes of self‐identification.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical study consisting of an analysis of government reports on higher education along with 65 interviews conducted at six UK research‐led business schools.FindingsAt the level of government policy, the university is recast as an enterprise within a competitive marketplace where the “entrepreneurial academic” who commercializes research becomes the role model. However, management practices and identity processes amongst faculty reveal inconsistencies within the articulation of the university enterprise, to the extent that this idealised identity is marginalised within research‐led business schools in the UK.Originality/valueThe theoretical approach captures the dynamism of hegemonic projects across multiple levels, from policymaking to management practice and the constitution of identity. Laclau and Mouffe's conception of hegemony highlights mechanisms of control, while their assumption of radical contingency illuminates dynamics of resistance.

Entrepreneurial Identities: Reflections from Two Case Studies

The central focus of this paper is an analysis of the enterprise discourse and how it is articulated by individuals working in small business environments, to construct and reconstruct material practices and psychological identities. The core argument is that, even if people do not take the enterprise culture seriously, even if they feel unaffected by its values and claims, they are inevitably reproducing it through their involvement with the daily practices which are imbued with the notion of enterprise (du Gay and Salaman, 1992). As such, the paper takes a social constructionist perspective which seeks to illustrate how individuals are constituted by the discourse of enterprise, and to provide some empirical evidence of the processes and practices which both reflect and construct that experience.