Identyfikacja z rolą przedsiębiorcy z perspektywy samodzielnej działalności gospodarczej
Role Identification of Entrepreneur from the Perspective of Independent Business Activity

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of identification with the role of an entrepreneur and, in consequence, the possibilities of its application in the description of independent business activity. The aim of the analysis, focused on the dimension of consciousness, is determination of the importance of identification with the role of an entrepreneur and perception of entrepreneurship from the perspective of self-employed persons. Empirical material comes from research projects pursued during the period 2011–2019 in the Lublin Province. Communities differ in terms of demographic, social, and occupational characteristics, reasons for undertaking business activity, as well as widely understood work situation. Also, different concepts of an entrepreneur and entrepreneurship were formed. Despite this, a vast majority of respondents considered themselves as entrepreneurs. In addition, the study demonstrated that role identification was more frequently the result of the resources possessed (non-economic) and operational rules than the factor in shaping professional and market strategies. However, they were combined by many dimensions of community differentiation. Thus, even in a binary form it proved to be a useful research category considering the properties of synthesis: personal characteristics and characteristics of the enterprises, evaluation criteria and the concept of entrepreneurship, ways of perceiving the work situation, and reception of the conditions of the socio-economic environment.

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