Peculiarities of entrepreneurship development in the context of social responsibility ; Verslumo ugdymo socialinės atsakomybės kontekste ypatumai
In a small business, personal initiative and respon sibility for end business results of each individual employee are important. The methodo logies used in large businesses that encourage employees to economize company's resources and take more responsibility of their work do not work in small businesses. This gives rise to a problem f or scientists solve. Solving this problem would assi st business consultants in applying appropriate entrep reneurship methodologies to stimulate responsible behavior in work environment. The aim of the study is to formulate the criteria of entrepreneurship development methodologies selection after revealing entrepreneurship development assumptions. As a context of the study, a description of entrepreneur ship provided in the European Parliament and Board Recommendations on common longlife learning abilit ies (2006/962/EB) was chosen – "an entrepreneurial attitude is characterized by initia tive, proactivity, independence and innovation in personal and social life, as much as at work". In this publication, authors present the entreprene urship development tendencies, entrepreneurial activity and social responsibility connection as we ll as entrepreneurship development methods selectio n criteria which were identified during the study con ducted in Lithuania during years 2011 to 2014.