The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm*
试图调和企业的企业家理论与企业家型企业理论，基于熊彼特、柯兹纳和奈特的企业家概念，论证企业作为协调问题解决方案的存在，尤其关注奈特式结构性不确定性。
abstract The entrepreneurial theory of the firm argues that entrepreneurship, properly understood, is a crucial but neglected element in explaining the nature and boundaries of the firm. By contrast, the theory of the entrepreneurial firm presumably seeks not to understand the nature and boundaries of ‘the firm’ in general but rather to understand a particular type of firm: one that is entrepreneurial. This paper is an attempt to reconcile the two. After briefly delving for the concept of entrepreneurship in the work of Schumpeter, Kirzner, and (especially) Knight, the paper makes the case for the entrepreneurial theory of the firm. In such a theory, the firm exists as the solution to a coordination problem in a world of change and uncertainty, including Knightian or structural uncertainty.