To govern and be governed

Miguel Alfonso Martínez Echevarría

Authors

Miguel Alfonso Martínez Echevarría Universidad de Navarra

Keywords:

ENTERPRISE, NEOCLASSICAL THEORY, ENTERPRISE HUMAN FACTOR, LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH

Abstract

The author provides a diachronic study of the concept of enterprise through the changes of approach under which it has been understood. On this basis, the article is divided into five parts: the first where the author traces a journey through the various attempts of man to explain social order without resort to tradition but to a rational mathematical model, until reaching the idea of Walras’s general equilibrium. Then it focuses on the notion of
enterprise in neoclassical theory, conceived as a mental function and at the same time as a power structure, a dichotomy that the theory does not solve. The next section examines the organization of work in an enterprise, this is, the human factor, which is conceived as a group of individuals immersed in a tradition and a community. In the fourth part, the author analyzes the
problem of business leadership and the morale of the entrepreneur. Finally, the author postulates the notion of leadership understood as a vocation.

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Author Biography

Miguel Alfonso Martínez Echevarría, Universidad de Navarra

Doctor en Física Teórica (U. de Valencia). Profesor de Historia del Pensamiento Económico, Historia del Pensamiento Empresarial y Filosofía de la Economía (U. de Navarra). Académico de la Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras de Barcelona. Ha sido Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (U. de Navarra).

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