Personal career success in the eyes of nascent entrepreneurs internationally

Dziewanowska, Katarzyna (author), Petrylaite, Edita (author), Balas Rant, Melita (author), Clegg, Sam (author)

Entrepreneurship is of key importance to economies and societies around the globe, and knowledge about how to support and stimulate it is needed. The purpose of this paper is to review the concepts of experiential learning, meaning-making of the self, and self-efficacy theory to investigate and understand young entrepreneurs’ career development choices and their definitions of career success. Findings draw attention to the complexity of the concept of a successful career, emerging from the shared experiences of the entrepreneurs from different parts of the world. It is clear that young entrepreneurs seek work-life balance and bring this concept into their vision of success. They are also driven by self-evolving forces that push them into domains of self-exploration and selfdiscovery. Given these findings, the study highlights the importance of supporting young people through the presentation of challenges, as well as inspiring role models and the opportunity to learn from them.

• Language: English
• Keywords: enterprises, personnel, career
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 25-44
• Numbering: Vol. 4, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-114382
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 2397-4575
• DOI: 10.22324/ijhrdppr.4.203
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25558246
• Publication date in RUL: 25.02.2020

DZIEWANOWSKA, Katarzyna, PETRYLAITE, Edita, BALAS RANT, Melita and CLEGG, Sam, 2019, Personal career success in the eyes of nascent entrepreneurs internationally. International journal of human resource development practice, policy & research [online]. 2019. Vol. 4, no. 2, p. 25–44. [Accessed 26 April 2025]. DOI 10.22324/ijhrdppr.4.203. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=114382

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of human resource development practice, policy & research
• Publisher: International Federation of the Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO) and the University Forum for HRD (UFHRD)
• ISSN: 2397-4575
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25557990

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
• Licensing start date: 25.02.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podjetje, kadri, kariera

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• Project number: 734824
• Name: Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3
• Acronym: GETM3