In simple words, the person who takes up the risk and organizes the business is known as an “entrepreneur”. The entrepreneur acts as a manager and also takes up the risk of the business, whereas the manager or an organiser only manages the work in a predetermined manner, but he is not liable for any risk or loss in business.
Functions of Enterpreneur:
1. Risk Bearing: He has to bear the risks which can be non-insurable (changes in govt. policy).
2. Innovator: The entrepreneur conceives new ideas, new products and new processes. He also develops new techniques with a view to avail to better opportunities of maximizing profit ability in the business. Thus, the entrepreneur always looks for changes and modification in business to further improvement.
3. Organizing: The success of business depends directly upon properly planned organization. Organizing means determining and deciding about the entire group of persons who need to be employed to take up different responsibilities and duties to execute the projects-and plans off the entrepreneur. This is one of the most important functions, or to say the main functions which has to be performed by the entrepreneur. In modem times, the organization has become very important and a crucial factor due to complicated nature of present productive systems.