Paternalism and entrepreneurship the emergence of state-made entrepreneurs

Abstract

Abstract This article considers the government's role in encouraging or hampering entrepreneurs. Following the analysis by Jurgen Habermas(16) of state regulated capitalism, the article will focus on a sociological analysis of paternalism in establishment-industrial entrepreneurship relations. A type of entrepreneur emerges as the result of establishment nurture, which we shall here call state-made entrepreneurs. The segmented labor market theory and its application to the field of entrepreneurship will serve as a theoretical starting point for the investigation of the problem of various patterns of entrepreneurship which develop in a society in which there exists massive paternalistic government intervention in the economy.