In their paper, Osobrn and Slomczynski (1997) have investigated who becomes an entrepreneur during various periods after World War II. In early periods, 1949-1958 and 1959-1968, recruitment patterns involve a large proportion of entrepreneurs who inherited their position. In 1978-1988 and 1989-1993, there is a shift in recruitment patterns from those based on ascription to those based on achievement: father's position becomes less important and education becomes more important. In Poland professionalization processes of the entrepreneurial class are parallel to the transformation of the recruitment patterns.
We expand our initial analysis and prepare a book manuscript.
Osborn, Elizabeth and Kazimierz M. Slomczynksi. (forthcoming). Entreprenuers
in Poland.
Osborn, Elizabeth and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 1997. "Becoming an Entrepreneur
in Poland, 1949-1993: Recruitment Patterns and Professionalization
Processes." Polish Sociological Review, No. 3 (119) :
249-265.
Re-analysis of the data pertaining to the rates of becoming entrepreneur
for various categories of the population.
Elizabeth A. Osborn and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Entrepreneurial Class
in Poland