2021-01-282014-01-011900-720501203592http://hdl.handle.net/10784/25179Entrepreneurship, especially understood as creation of new enterprises, is a topic of growing interest because, among other causes, of unemployment that stopped being a problem of third-world countries to become a global concern. In its contribution to understanding the phenomenon of “undertaking” and in the figure of the entrepreneurs as its leading players, academics present a series of theoretical proposals to explain their individual characteristics. This work presents an exploration of the main approaches that seek to describe entrepreneurs, starting from a classification proposed based on the literature review on the topic. © 2015, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. All rights reserved.spahttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0120-3592info:eu-repo/semantics/articleApproachesCharacteristicsEntrepreneurEntrepreneurship2021-01-28Marulanda Valencia, F.Á.Montoya Restrepo, I.A.Vélez Restrepo, J.M.