PATTERNS OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT: AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S ENTREPRENEURIAL PURSUITS IN POLAND AND IN IRELAND

• Authors: Krzyzanowska Olga
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses the phenomenon of self-employment and entrepreneurship among the 20-35-year-olds in the two country contexts; Poland and Ireland, and the capital cities of Warsaw and Dublin, respectively, in 2005. It seeks to compare motivations driving the choice of an autonomous style of work; role of social capital both for decisions to start up as well as for subsequent economic performance; the value of an institutional environment for entrepreneurial efforts. It examines such aspects through the prism of the economic and socio-cultural characteristics of the countries in question. By this, the article draws a broad picture of findings that may inform individual as well as macro-related characteristics of entrepreneurship.

Keywords

EN

MOTIVATIONS; SELF-EMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL; YOUNG PEOPLE

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 4(164)
• Pages: 417-435
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Krzyzanowska Olga

• Olga Krzyzanowska, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA067513