entrepreneurship

The authors suggest that entrepreneurial activity is not exogenous, but rather shaped by a number of factors specific to the particular location. Empirical evidence from the study indicates that the degree of spatially specific entrepreneurship capital is shaped by regional-specific factors reflecting both entrepreneurial opportunities and the entrepreneurial capabilities.

The paper attempts to answer to the question: why do some entrepreneurs wish to own another business in the future after having closed an unsuccessful one? The author uses of a sample of entrepreneurs in the UK who have experienced a business closure, and show that 45% of them have the desire to own another business in the future, despite having an unsuccessful experience in small business ownership.

The authors investigate the effects of a government venture capital program on entrepreneurship, the allocation of capital, and managerial advice. Results indicate that the government program cannot induce the optimal number of entrepreneurs, because when individuals are free to choose their occupation, they do so without taking into account the effect of their choice on the welfare of other individuals.

The survey discusses results for salaries, stipend types and amounts, travel and research budgets, course loads and endowments for 52 percent of all eligible endowed positions and over 70 percent of those faculty most closely identified with the field of entrepreneurship.

The report from the North Carolina Rural Development Center provides a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities facing new business owners in the state. It includes the results of focus groups and also offers suggestions for how the state can more effectively nurture entrepreneurship in its rural counties.

The paper expands the understanding of how exchange partners, particularly customers, can dominate young firms. Using a grounded theory approach, it discovers that young firms operating in different competitive contexts identify three distinct types of dominance. Data analysis suggests that there are different antecedents and consequences of each type of dominance.

The authors propose an entrepreneurial theory of the firm that is based on dispersed knowledge. They argue that the dispersion of knowledge over people and places and over time leads to uncertainty. The authors then suggest that the theory of the firm proposed by them answers questions that have been overlooked by alternative theories.

The paper suggests a theory of the entrepreneurial firm grounded in organizational economics and bounded by the rent generation and appropriation of entrepreneurial knowledge.

The paper focuses on where, how, and when entrepreneurial firms arise; a theoretical knot that is both intriguing and challenging and to be untied. According to the author, the overall implication of the paper is that because emergence is a multilevel
phenomenon, entrepreneurship theory building has to pay attention to the interactions among cognition, organization, and industry levels of analyses,
although testable models tend to isolate these levels.

The authors investigate whether a new and
promising concept, Total Entrepreneurial Activity, influences GDP growth for 36 countries in a recent period. The aim of the study is to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th century.