entrepreneurship

After briefly delving for the concept of entrepreneurship in the work of Schumpeter, Kirzner, and (especially) Knight, the paper makes the case for the entrepreneurial theory of the firm. In such a theory, the firm exists as the solution to a coordination problem in a world of change and uncertainty, including Knightian or structural uncertainty.

The aim of this paper is to review recent contributions to the study of entrepreneurship and firm dynamics from a methodological and firm demographic perspective.

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation research program as a policy fostering academic entrepreneurship. The authors highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early-stage financing and scientist involvement in commercialization.

This paper develops the theoretical foundation to the questions, how do firms that compete in different environments vary in the corporate entrepreneurship activities? and, which corporate entrepreneurship activities are conductive to superior performance in different environments?

The purpose of the paper is to identify the new understanding about the role that entrepreneurship and small firms play with respect to technological change and innovation and to contrast it with previous convential wisdom.

The purpose of the paper is to investigate two sets of assumption about the nature of opposites, the nature of entrepreneurs, and the nature of the decision making context within which entrepreneurs operate.

This introductory, non-technical, article offers a reflective overview of what economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a toolbox of methods to answer them.

This study consists of an in depth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be affected by the kind of tax and welfare arrangements that typically prevail in a mature welfare state.

Based upon two strands of literature, this paper hypothesizes a U-shaped relationship between a countrys rate of entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development.

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.