Pachkovskiy Y. Entrepreneurship as a subject of sociopsychological research (action-behavioural aspect)

This dissertation studies the phenomenon of entrepreneurship under the conditions of social transformation. Drawing upon approaches constructed on the basis of analysis of risk function, innovation, human activity and social-cultural influences, the dissertation employs a sociopsychological concept of sociological analysis of entrepreneurship. It also develops a system of factors, which are involved in regulating entrepreneurship within the system of relations "society - group - individual". The dissertation considers the particulars of motivation of entrepreneurship in the context of a motivational field. Also, using empirical data, it studies the organization of the production process at an enterprise and offers a theoretical framework for the analysis of entrepreneurial behaviour. On the basis of this framework, the dissertation explains how the method of imitational modelling can be used in sociological research to explore the real forms of entrepreneurial behaviour.