To perform the major entrepreneurial tasks, the entrepreneur must be innovative and capable of managing risk and uncertaintity. Entrepreneurial outcomes are desirable for the growth of a society. The sociologists concern to trace the source of entrepreneurship and understand the social process through which the entrepreneurship emerges in a society are discussed here in the context of Nagaland.
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