While disability is a worldwide phenomenon, affecting millions of people, their employment
is still obstructed by numerous factors, among others, ableism. The able-bodied approaches
to entrepreneurship and human resource development prevent labour market incentives
from effectively supporting the open, inclusive and accessible work for persons with
disabilities in line with the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
However, entrepreneurship may provide some of the flexibility, career options and
challenges needed by persons with disabilities to fulfil their true potentials. The
current study shows on ten semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted in Hungary
in 2018 how ableism might be used as a theoretical framework in exploring both the
motivations and the success of entrepreneurs with disabilities.
