entrepreneurship

The paper examines the relationship between cultural values, political institutions and government regulation of entry. The author couples data for 53 countries from a variety of sources in comparative political economy and cross-cultural psychology.

The paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business ownership rates, and unemployment in Portugal in the period from 1972-2002. It concludes that Portugal has been a relative outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average.

The study explores more specifically how post-materialism may help to explain differences in total entrepreneurial activity across countries. Data from 28 countries world-wide are used to test the hypotheses, based on intersecting data available from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, World Values Survey and other published sources.

The study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables are derived from three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation, and on female entrepreneurship.

The authors argue that variations across countries in entrepreneurship and the spatial structure of economic activities could potentially be the source of different efficiencies in knowledge spillovers and ultimately in economic growth. They develop an empirical model to test both the entrepreneurship and the geography effects on knowledge spillovers.

Drawing on Bems psychological theory of self-perception, the paper presents and tests a model that examines the impact of business accomplishments and gender on entrepreneurial self-image and explores the definition of entrepreneurship according to Vespers entrepreneurial typology.

Using data from a large European financial services firm which engaged in an entrepreneurial initiative to enhance its competitiveness, the paper explores the strategic role of middle managers in the context of corporate entrepreneurship and its link to multiple dimensions of performance.

The paper introduces a framework to guide research and systematically enhance the understanding of social entrepreneurship. Drawing from traditional entrepreneurship literature, the paper presents social entrepreneurial "opportunities" as an important concept to differentiate social entrepreneurship from other social initiatives as well as from business entrepreneurship.

The paper examines how Sweden and the United States have been impacted by philanthropic activities, commercialization of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship.

The authors introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a production function model. The paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for German regions.