摘要：The purpose of this article is to position self-employment within an entrepreneurship paradigm.The authors create a structured approach to the existing concepts and definitions of entrepreneurship and self-employment,as well as interrelations between them.The text proposes a framework to analyze these two phenomena by establishing their categorization.Methodology: An in-depth critical review of selected literature of the classical and contemporary entrepreneurship theories and definitions in the context of self-employment.Findings: The main results of the study show major discrepancies between existing definitions and approaches in entrepreneurship and self-employment theories and the official EU definitions.Practical implications: The findings offer a starting point for quantitative,methodologically sound,comparative studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment and their role in the contemporary labor market.The proposed categorization structures current terminological chaos and standardizes the terms and tools used in labor market statistics.Originality: The article comprises a set of notions related to the concept of both entrepreneurship and self-employment.The text positions self-employment within an entrepreneurship paradigm and offers new arguments in the discussion on their similarities and differences.The summary offers an original idea that confronts self-employment forms with selected entrepreneurship characteristics.
