Faire parler de son territoire, le rendre attractif et visible pour des cibles internationales est une priorité pour les grandes agglomérations. De ce fait, les outils de marketing territorial et de land branding deviennent de plus en plus sophistiqués. Les outils d’attractivité, de...

En survolant les étapes importantes du processus du changement économique nous constatons que l’Algérie vit une transformation radicale de son environnement économique depuis les années 1990. L’engagement résolu du pays dans la voie de l’économie du marché libère les énergies...

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

Many firms fail shortly after inception. Yet individuals continue starting businesses. Prewar economists such as Keynes invoked animal spirits and stressed psychological factors in their explanations of economic behavior. Using a large sample obtained from surveys conducted in 18 countries, we...