entrepreneurship

Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population, this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes considered to be important for becoming a nascent entrepreneur, and that they behave differently.

This paper focuses on how attitudes affect entrepreneur’s strategy selection at the organizational level. It also attempts to discover if contingencies exist in this relationship that may account for differences in firm performance.

The paper proposes a simple framework to study the interaction between individual workers entrepreneurship decision and established firms effort to keep their best workers and ideas.

The U.S. continues to be a major—but not the largest—source of global entrepreneurial activity, according to the author. The assessment project is the only source of longitudinal data that is based directly
on individual reports of entrepreneurial activity.

Using the inside versus outside entrepreneurial analysis, the report looks at the state through the lens of entrepreneurialism. The report gives the state a low rank in its ability to support and sustain entrepreneurship.

It is typically assumed that people engage in entrepreneurship because there are profits to be made. In contrast to this view, this paper argues that entrepreneurship is more adequately characterized as a non-profit-seeking activity.

Contrary to the mainstream view, the paper offers a subjectivist approach to growth and an institutional view of development. In particular, the term development regards the prevailing rules of the game and their effects on the key variables for economic activity to take off: property rights and entrepreneurship.

The importance of small business and entrepreneurship seem to be fading, according to the author. The study documents the recent cross-country re-emergence of entrepreneurship.

Recent initiatives both in the UK and at EU level have sought to promote entrepreneurship by reducing the harshness of the consequences of personal bankruptcy law. The authors investigate the link between bankruptcy and entrepreneurship using data on self employment over 13 years and 15 countries in Europe and North America.

This paper addresses theoretical and empirical gaps in the relationships between the nature of institutional origin, firm resources and growth in the context of spinning off ventures from public research organisations.