NURİ DEMİRAĞ’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP MODEL: COMPETENCY ANALYSIS FROM HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE TO PRESENT

The purpose of this study is to examine the entrepreneurial competencies of Nuri Demirağ, one of Türkiye's pioneering entrepreneurs, and his role in the industrialization process of the early Republican era. Demirağ's entrepreneurial competencies — visionary leadership, innovation, risk-taking, and resource management — are analyzed in light of historical data and academic literature. The research defines the competencies necessary for entrepreneurial success, discusses how Demirağ demonstrated these characteristics, the impact of the economic and political conditions of the period on the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and evaluates how historical examples offer strategic lessons for modern entrepreneurship policies and practices. By integrating historical entrepreneurship with institutional theory, this study makes three fundamental contributions: conceptual, methodological, and practical. The conceptual contribution of this research is its support for understanding the dynamics of institutional entrepreneurship in emerging economies; the methodological contribution of applying historical case studies to entrepreneurship research is its practical contribution; and the opportunity to draw strategic lessons from historical experiences for contemporary entrepreneurs constitutes its practical contribution.