Islamic Entrepreneurship : Meaning, Challenges and Strategies

Entrepreneurship is more than a phenomenon leading to the creation of new organisation (Gartner, 1987), encouragement of employment opportunities and maximisation of economic returns, but it's, to a certain extent, a development choice to contribute to the amelioration of individual, communities and countries well-being. The target of this article is to investigate the entrepreneurship phenomenon from an Islamic vision. In fact, we want to scrutinize the relationship between Islamic values and entrepreneurial activities' principles, in order to examine if theses values will develop various features of Islamic entrepreneurship. This article aims at exploring the different notions surrounding the concept of Islamic entrepreneurship. This concept has been, and it is still, an instrument of social change within Islamic countries. We will attempt, in a theoretical framework, the possible meaning, challenges and strategies of the concept of Islamic entrepreneurship. Within the first part, a variety of working definitions, theoretical meanings and introductory clarities have been served to enhance the paper and to make it acquainted with the possible meanings this paper seeks. As for the second part, the paper present, the challenges that Islamic entrepreneurs meet while being confronted with running ventures with ethic and social missions. Least but not last, the third part considers the very ways that Islamic entrepreneurs hold to create an ethic and social wealth