Book of Abstracts for the Papers Presented at the 1st International Congress on Management of Organizations "The Static and Dynamic Functions of Entrepreneur as a Human Agent of Change: Structural and Contextual Analysis"

The organizational economics paradigm is useful for a research tool in order to construct a concrete theory of entrepreneur as a human agent of change. Under this theoretical framework, chief functions of entrepreneurial activity must be defined. Hébert and Link (1988) decomposes functions of entrepreneur with reference to different definitions in the history of economic theory. They gather together twelve functions under two main categories. First, they divide entrepreneurial functions as static and dynamic. Thereby, they identify each function with a definition and historical classification as an overview of distinct intellectual attempts by economists in the relevant literature. We conduct structural and contextual analysis to entegrate functionalist approach of organizational economics to the theory of entrepreneur. Key words: Economics of Organization, Theory of Entrepreneur, Functionalist Approach, The Organizational Economics Paradigm, Structural and Contextual Analysis