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"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …
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. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …
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We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden is not markedly different than elsewhere. In line with...
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Entrepreneurship research has a long tradition and since the 1980s the field has grown significantly. In this study we … identify the ‘knowledge producers’ who have shaped the field over time and their core entrepreneurship research works. A unique … database consisting of all references in twelve entrepreneurship ‘handbooks’ (or state-of-the-art books) has been developed …
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It is often claimed that there are locally embedded values and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, exerting a strong … influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to … their activities in a region. This paper discusses regional entrepreneurship culture as a source of persistent differences …
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probability than an individual leaves employment for entrepreneurship. An otherwise average neighborhood with a 5 percentage point …
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This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self … to increase entrepreneurship. <p …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …
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Israel Kirzner has been one of the leaders in fashioning an Austrian school of economics. In his rendering of the Austrian school, one finds a marriage between Friedrich Hayek’s discourse with Ludwig von Mises’s deductive, praxeological image of science — a marriage that seems to us...
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My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...
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