FROM UNEMPLOYMENT TO RUNNING ONE'S OWN BUSINESS: THE IDEATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN POLISH AND EU PUBLIC POLICY
FROM UNEMPLOYMENT TO RUNNING ONE'S OWN BUSINESS: THE IDEATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN POLISH AND EU PUBLIC POLICY

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays the entrepreneurship phenomenon is of great importance. Smali business is considered a critical factor of economic progress, innovation, and employment growth. Its economic significance implies both a certain policy shape and specific social practice. The process of setting up, maintaining and developing firms has become a subject of common approval and growing legitimization as well as of intensive governmental support in various forms. In public debatę and public policy, the idea of deregulation, relating to actions limiting the administrative barriers for entrepreneurs, is justified based on neoclassical economic theory. However, both in the public debatę and public policy, providing entrepreneurs with subsidies and other kind of support is based on the interventionism doctrine. Therefore, an ideational entrepreneurship system is created at the public authority level which seeks to explain and justify a certain shape of support policy for entrepreneurs. The paper argues that entrepreneurship could be perceived as an ideational embedded economic action. In order to illustrate the ideational embeddedness of entrepreneurship, EU and Polish public policy discourse form 2000-2010 was analysed. The objects of qualitative discourse analysis were, among others, governmental documents, strate-gies, and public statements.

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