Özet:

The literature widely acknowledges the significant contribution of entrepreneurship activities into economic growth and employment. Every practice is based on a theory. Entrepreneurship has evolved within the historical progress by taking the economics and society as its basis and improved its theory. In this progress, different approaches of various scholars in economics towards economic issues of the period were quite effective. Bu çalışma, İstanbul Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü'nde Özgür TOPKAYA tarafından hazırlanan doktora tezinden kısmi bir uyarlama ile hazırlanmıştır.  Improvement of the theory of entrepreneurship that has been discussed since the rise of classical approach, taking various scholars’ different ideas on this issue into consideration and their evaluation bear importance since it would contribute greatly to the entrepreneurship theory. This study aims to put forward the entrepreneurship theory based on periods and attempt to explain how it reached the level of today’s entrepreneurship that is basically employment creation and obtaining economic growth

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