Elements for Designing Stakeholders’ Programmes of Encouraging Young People to Engage in Entrepreneurship

Authors

  • Jasmina Omerbegović-Bijelović Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
  • Zoran Rakićević University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
  • Predrag Mirković  University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7595/management.fon.2016.0027

Keywords:

Young entrepreneurs of Serbia, Competencies (knowledge and experience) for Entrepreneurship, Motives for Entrepreneurship, Stakeholders’ programmes for encouraging the young towards entrepreneurship

Abstract

This paper proposes a way to help in solving the high levels of unemployment amongst the young (in Serbia) – by designing and realising stakeholders’ programmes which would allow inclusion of the young in the entrepreneurial world (through either self-employment or employment of others). The idea is to identify and recommend to stakeholders the competencies and motives that drive the nowadays young entrepreneurs – as models for enabling and motivating unemployed youth to engage into the entrepreneurial world. On the basis of facts obtained by research – which pinpoint the competencies - both practical and theoretical, on the basis of the motives of the young entrepreneurs in Serbia, as well as on the basis of their beliefs/attitudes about the same aspects of starting and undertaking entrepreneurial projects, some recommendations for stakeholders have been generated for designing a programme to encourage those young people to join the ranks of entrepreneurs. What remains is for the relevant authorities - in the legal and even family settings, i.e., all those who can recognise some self-interest, is to get started and dedicate themselves to the young and their entry into the world of entrepreneurship. The contribution of this paper is in the suggestions for the different types of stakeholders which would help them design programmes to bring the young generations into the entrepreneurial sphere. We also consider even the very fact of pointing out the different roles of the varied social subjects/stakeholders to be useful in bringing the younger generations into the world of entrepreneurship, as a form of care for the young generations.

Author Biographies

Jasmina Omerbegović-Bijelović, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade

Jasmina Omerbegović-Bijelović, Ph.D., is a full time professor and Head of Chair of Production and Service Management (Department for Operations management, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade). Her major areas of interest are: Planning (of production, services and new business venture), Entrepreneurship and Management of small and medium enterprises, Resource management, Servicing management, Tools for Quality improvement and Problem solving. She is an author of the Metamanagement and Metacybernetic system concepts and has published numerous papers in the fields mentioned above.

Zoran Rakićević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Zoran Rakićević, M.Sc., works as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FOS), Department for Operations management (Chair of Production and Service Management). He completed two master study courses: Entrepreneurship and management of SMEs (in 2012) and Operational Research and Computational Statistics (in 2013), and is currently enrolled in PhD studies at the FOS. His research and teaching areas of interest include Entrepreneurship and management of SMEs, Planning of Production and Servicing and Operations management.

Predrag Mirković , University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Predrag Mirković, M.Sc., works as a full time associate with the Public Notary Office in Belgrade. He also works part time in the family company called „STADIUM BELGRADE“. He completed his bachelor studies at the Faculty of Law (in 2013), and his master studies at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FOS): Entrepreneurship and management of SMEs (in 2016). His area of interest includes Entrepreneurship and Management of SMEs.

Published

2017-04-22

How to Cite

Omerbegović-Bijelović, J., Rakićević, Z., & Mirković , P. (2017). Elements for Designing Stakeholders’ Programmes of Encouraging Young People to Engage in Entrepreneurship. Management:Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies, 21(81), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.7595/management.fon.2016.0027

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