Guest Editorial: Career Approaches to Entrepreneurship Jerome A. Katz . An entrepreneur going through life at work is pursuing a career. This idea is sl.mple enough to be self-evident to entrepreneurship researchers. but because of the ?lstant relationship of career theory to entrepreneurship. it has been an idea of little Interest to most of them. This idea is also simple enough to be self-evident to career researchers. but because of the same distant relationship of entrepreneurship to career theory. it has been an idea of little interest to most of them. too. This idea has. however. remained part of a lively interest in careers held by one researcher. Edgar Schein of MIT's Sloan School. Alone of the major career theorists. his model. articulated in the book Career Dynamics (Schein. 1978). explicitly considered the self-employed along with the wage-or-salaried people common to other theories. Alone of the major career theorists. Schein also looked at the cutting edge issues where entrepreneurship and career theory met. Note. for instance. his work on the impact of organizational founders (Schein. 1983) and his consultation work with family firms and the Young Entrepreneurs Organization. His work laid a foundation for an accessible career theory that was increasingly noticed by entrepreneurship researchers. Equally important to entrepreneurship researchers. Schein supported efforts to develop more career-oriented entrepreneurship works by young researchers throughout the country. The works presented here by Dyer on the entrepreneurial life and by Katz on career progressions of entrepreneurs reflect that support. as did Schein's involvement in the 1992 Academy of Management Symposium on "New Directions in Research on En- trepreneurial Careers" chaired by Dyer. Alongside this effort exists another force leading to the integration of entrepreneur- ship and career theory-the restructuring of the worldwide workforce. Because of down- sizing and rightsizing. millions worldwide have been evicted from their prior wage-or- salaried jobs. Amid this tumult. governments concerned about rising unemployment. and desirous of continued economic growth. increasingly turned to self-employment training for the unemployed. Reviewed in several places (Balkin. 1989; Robinson. 1993; Scott. 1992). these efforts in over a dozen countries to remake the unemployed into the self-employed have captured the attention of policymakers as a small but symbolically and economically important element in the restructuring of workforces. The Baucus and Human paper considers one such private effort aimed at white-collar employees. while Benus provides one of the first looks at the formal evaluation of the United States' two pilot projects for providing self-employment training for the unemployed. The unemployment insurance experiments worldwide offer a unique opportunity to supply the capital and research subject needs of an entire generation of entrepreneurship career theorists. and a good case can be made for mutual assistance. The experiments are Winter. 1994 5