This paper describes a growing but under-documented entrepreneurial phenomenon called entremployees. This is a hybrid form of entrepreneurship, whereby an individual simultaneously pursues a dual career in both formal employment and, based on that employment, entrepreneurship. Typically, in the mainstream literature, entrepreneurship and formal employment are understood as being mutually exclusive phenomena — one either gets a job or engages in entrepreneurship. However, Zimbabwe’s economic downturn in the last two decades has catalysed the growth of entremployeeism. The paper first outlines the characteristics of entremployeeism. Motivating factors including the external environment as push factors are discussed. The theories that beckon entremployeeism as a distinct form of entrepreneurship are presented. Finally, implications for theory and future research conclude the paper.

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企业家作为一种混合型企业家：环境如何塑造企业家的理论解释

本文描述了一种不断增长但未被充分记录的创业现象，称为企业家。这是一种混合形式的创业，个人同时在正式就业和基于该就业的创业中追求双重职业。通常，在主流文献中，创业和正式就业被理解为相互排斥的现象——要么找到工作，要么从事创业。然而，津巴布韦过去二十年的经济低迷催生了企业家精神。本文首先概述了企业家精神的特征。讨论了包括作为推动因素的外部环境在内的激励因素。提出了将企业家精神作为一种独特的企业家精神形式的理论。最后，