Perceptions Of Entrepreneurship As A Career Path

Since the end of the World War II, the large corporation has become a key social institution and a fundamental economic organization for the capitalist system. For a long period of time, the future for many people around the world laid within a multinational or transnational corporation. The late 1960s and the early 1970s paved the way for a new type of economy, the “entrepreneurial economy. As the beginning of the 1990s has provided huge opportunities at a global scale, individuals understood the value of entrepreneurship in the business world. Entrepreneurship has increasingly become an important vocation and option for many people worldwide. The possibilities in entrepreneurship are endless. Entrepreneurial careers transcend job titles, organizations or industries. This is why entrepreneurship as a career path constitutes an exciting topic for many researchers all over the world. The aims of our research are to present, analyse and interpret the results of a survey regarding the perceptions about self-employment in Romania in 2013. The research method was based on the analysis of the results offered by the Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report (2013) and the comparative analysis with other studies on the same topic. A set of three hypotheses was validated. The majority of the Romanian respondents seem to have a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship. Also, the reasons to start a business are very different and the fear of failure represents a major threat for many respondents. Our paper contributes to a better understanding of the entrepreneurship perceptions of Romanian people.