Selected Determinants of Individual Entrepreneurship: an Outline of the Current State of Research

Authors

  • Danuta Piróg Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie Instytut Geografii Zakład Dydaktyki Geografii

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20833296.12.22

Keywords:

economic factors, individual entrepreneurship, non-economic factors, self-employment

Abstract

Individual entrepreneurship is among the key factors of social and economic development of regions in various scales of spatial settings. It is also an important way of increasing the flexibility of the labor market. Specialist literature clearly shows that there is a multitude of determinants influencing an individual’s willingness to become self-employed. They include both economic factors (e.g. the level of economic development, labor market situation, fiscal policy) and non-economic ones (e.g. the person’s gender, age, education level, marital status, whether or not the person has children, the person’s previous experience on the labor market). This paper serves the following purposes: a review of Polish and foreign theoretical studies on the determinants of individual entrepreneurship; a synthesis of the findings of studies verifying the impact of non-economic factors on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. Literature studies on the economic factors’ role on individuals’ decision to become self-employed show that, internationally, the scale of self-employment is essentially in close correlation with the GDP. Among the non-economic factors, gender, age, marital status and education level have been demonstrated to significantly influence the willingness to start one’s own business.

Author Biography

Danuta Piróg, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie Instytut Geografii Zakład Dydaktyki Geografii

Danuta Piróg, PhD, an associated professor at the Pedagogical University of Cracow (Institute of Geography). Her research interests are concerning the following three core areas: the role of educational services in preparing people to function, in the best possible way, in integrating Europe, with particular consideration to multicultural settings; social geography research methods, particularly innovations in methods and techniques of social qualitative research; people’s functioning on the labour market in evolving circumstances, using the example of higher education graduates. She has been a member of various scientific projects on national and European level. Currently her scientific surveys are devoted to multidimensional analysis of determinants of HE graduates transition into the labour market and an innovative strategies of vocational counselling.

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Published

2016-10-02

How to Cite

Piróg, D. (2016). Selected Determinants of Individual Entrepreneurship: an Outline of the Current State of Research. Entrepreneurship – Education, 12, 300–314. https://doi.org/10.24917/20833296.12.22