Driving the Market Process: “Alertness” Versus Innovation and “Creative Destruction”

Volume 16, No. 4 (Winter 2013)

ABSTRACT: This paper summarizes and compares the theories of entrepreneurship of Joseph A. Schumpeter and Israel M. Kirzner as presented in their major scholarly contributions to economic analysis. It is argued that Kirzner’s theory of entrepreneurial action as “the driving force of the market” contributes greatly to a fundamental understanding of the market process.

Christopher Brown, MBA, Ph.D, is owner of Smile Right Solutions, a dental practice management company.