Comments on: Please, No More “Preneurs” http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bogdan Enache http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71097 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:00:07 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71097 I’m not a linguist, but you are right : entreprendre currently means to undertake. From the middle ages to the Renaissance it used to mean successively, to attack, to accuse or to seduce. The current meaning of “entreprendre” is actually an alteration of the old verb “emprendre”, now fall from usage, obtained through a substitution of the prefix. The Latin root is the verb “imprehendere”. At least, this is what the dictionaries said when I checked them on this matter.

]]> By: Peter Klein http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71093 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:11:17 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71093 Gavin, you’re right, of course “entre” is between, not under. But I think the literal meaning of the Old French term entreprendre is “to undertake.” Is there a linguist out there?

]]> By: Gavin Kennedy http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71092 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:58:56 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71092 Peter
In rural SW France, where I live for several months each year, people I speak with describe owners of small lorry transport firms as an ‘entrepreneur’ – of which I think the literal translation is ‘between takers’ and not ‘undertakers’. Party A has a builder’s yard and Party B wants ‘sand’, and the entrepreneur truck driver-owner, picks up the sand and delivers to the customer (taker?) for a fee.

As this has happened several times with different neighbours, I can see what President Bush said there was no French word of the English usage of entrepreneur as understood in US academe.

]]> By: Warren Miller http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71053 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:16:19 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71053 There seems to be a lot of entremanureship flying around here.

]]> By: Christian Zimmermann http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71044 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:57:13 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71044 And you are a blogpreneur.

]]> By: Peter Klein http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71041 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:07 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71041 Alf, thanks, I’d forgotten about that one. Brian, I prefer the term “professorpreneur,” for the nice alliteration.

]]> By: Brian McCann http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71037 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:56:24 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71037 Are you saying we can’t describe you as an academicpreneur?

]]> By: Alf Rehn http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/please-no-more-preneurs/#comment-71027 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:26:30 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2095#comment-71027 Peter, Peter, Peter, I cannot believe you could write such an entry and completely miss out on the hottest new thing, pastorpreneurship:
http://www.pastorpreneur.com/

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