Given that personal initiative and enterprise are taken for granted in the United States, it is surprising that - as of 1975 - only 350,000 to 500,000 individuals per year actually start a new company. This study discusses the conditions and the kinds of personalities associated with people who...

Conventional ways of viewing the social aspects of entrepreneurship are considered unsatisfactory; hence, this emphasis is recast in terms of the "entrepreneurial event." The entrepreneurial event is shaped by groupings of social variables (such as ethnic groups) and the social and cultural...