Networks and styles: industrial entrepreneurs in Faridabad

TLDR: In this article, the authors make an attempt to explore the factors that contribute to differential levels of entrepreneurial performance by studying the specific activities of the entrepreneurs and relate them to their environment and their social background in a comparative frame.

Abstract: neurs are adaptive, however, their specific modes of adaptation may differ. Some modes may ensure a higher level of entrepreneurial performance than others. Further, the modes of adaptation in turn are dependent on the environmental pressures operating on the entrepreneurs and their specific social background. Hence in order to explore the factors that contribute to differential levels of entrepreneurial performance it is necessary to study the specific activities of the entrepreneurs and relate them to their environment and their social background in a comparative frame. This paper makes such an attempt. The general orientation to the study of entrepreneurs in this paper would closely follow Kilby’s approach which steers clear of a priori discussions of what constitutes entrepreneurship and concentrates on ’the specific kinds of activities that the entrepreneur himself may have to perform for the successful operation of his enterprise....’ (1971: 27). Such an approach would lead us to study both the work world and the non-work world of the entrepreneurs and would enable us to examine the extent of overlap and the interconnections between -them. It would also lead us to examine