Empresa, empresario y su relación con el entorno en el pensamiento económico-empresarial

Abstract

The concern for the figure of the entrepreneur and for the business processes in the History of Economic Thought has been relatively recent. Despite the fact that classical authors such as Cantillón and Say have already shown the importance of the entrepreneur in economic processes, this figure has not played a leading role in the main models developed within orthodox Economic Theory, although it has received attention in minorities schools of thought such as the Austrian School or the Neo-institutionalist School. It is in the field of Business Economics, and not Economics, where the figure of the entrepreneur and the organization of business processes has acquired relevance, being the relationship between the firm and its environment one of the most interesting fields in recent decades, both in the German zone of influence, more oriented towards the consolidation of an Economic Theory of the Firm, and in the Anglo-Saxon zone of influence, more oriented to the praxis of Management. This work seeks to synthesize the main theories about the relationship between the firm and its environment that have been developed in the history of economic-business thought over the last decades, highlighting the importance that environmental factors have on the daily work of companies.