What it takes to be an entrepreneur in Romania

For more than three decades now, famous and relatively famous theoreticians from around the world and from Romania having different specialisations and statuses within society (from economists who work in universities and research centres to those involved in political decisions, from anthropologists to sociologists, from political analysts to jurists) and also practitioners that have transposed their ideas into reality by creating their own small or medium enterprises which support their roles within both the national and international economies. Additionally, statistics, be them undertaken by international organisations such as UNO or the EU or other national institutes reveal the ever increasing share of SMEs within the GDP, employment, turnover and the list may continue. The concern of policy makers of encouraging the development of entrepreneurship is manifested both in the legislative and financial frameworks by granting tax exemptions to those starting a business, by awarding them financing under certain conditions or by fostering the possibility of their accessing various European funds. This article seeks to provide the necessary support to the persons/entities that would or should take the necessary steps in order to define the job of the entrepreneur or undertaker in the economic field in general and not particularly in the construction field making a review of the current entrepreneurial phenomenon in Romania and analysing the opinions of different entrepreneurs with respect to the requirements of the jobs they have. Purposively, we designed and distributed a questionnaire in Bucharest. The number of valid responses is 47 and even if the sample is not representative, we consider the findings a step forward to defining the entrepreneur job.