Entrepreneurship as a determinant of business success: a theoretical approach

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https://doi.org/10.24917/20833296.211.10

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business leaders, economy, entrepreneurship, innovation, management, strategies, success

Abstract

Entrepreneurship plays a key role in achieving business success, combining innovation, man- agement and strategic thinking. The purpose of this article is to analyse the concept of entrepreneurship as a determinant of success, with a focus on management theory and practical strategies and tactics used by business leaders. The article refers to the literature on the subject and presents examples of successful management practices in the context of modern economic challenges in an era of dynamic economic, technological, political and legal changes of the environment, with an indication of the increasingly scarce time for adaptive actions on the way to business success.

Author Biography

Zdzisław Ludziejewski, Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Nrodowej Kraków

Zdzisław Ludziejewski, Master’s degree at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Silesian University of Technology. Worked for many years at the automotive industry research unit (JZS), carrying out pilot and operational tests on motor vehicles (trucks and buses). He is the author of numerous technical rationalisation projects and projects in the field of company organisation and management. While advancing to managerial and executive positions in industry, he simulta- neously improved his qualifications by undertaking, inter alia, post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Organisation and Management of Wrocław University of Technology in the field of enterprise management, post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of Wro- cław University in the field of economic and commercial law and subsequently obtained the relevant diplomas. Actively participating in economic processes, he passed the examination at the Ministry of Justice and was granted a licence of a restructuring advisor. He completed a four-year doctoral course at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wrocław and defended his doctoral thesis in the specialisation of organisation sociology, the subject of which was scientific research on communication conditions in selected western corporations of Lower Silesia. Participant of many scientific conferences at home and abroad. Author of numerous scientific articles in Polish and English, e.g. in the field of entrepreneurship, information security, economics. Long-time en- trepreneur specialising in auditing and economic consultancy, company restructuring. Long-term lecturer at the University of Information Technology and Management and the Wrocław School of Banking. Currently a researcher at the University of the Commission of National Education in Kraków. Participates in the work of an international team in the Wyshegrad project „Development and perspectives of modern technologies in education in the field of civil protection”.

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2025-06-29

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Ludziejewski, Z. (2025). Entrepreneurship as a determinant of business success: a theoretical approach. Entrepreneurship – Education, 21(1), 125–134. https://doi.org/10.24917/20833296.211.10

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025): Legal and economic conditions for the development of entrepreneurship

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