Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by … institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by … entrepreneurship. As business entrepreneurship, innovative political activity may be productive or unproductive, depending on the …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

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 self …

policies, taxation and the regulation of labor markets. Institutions have far-reaching effects on entrepreneurship, and they … entrepreneurship to the institutional setup it is maintained that in-depth analyses of specific institutions are required in order to … further our understanding of the determinants of entrepreneurial behavior and the economic effects of entrepreneurship. The …

In this introductory chapter to a collective volume dealing with the political economy of entrepreneurship,* we argue …, based on a suggested unifying framework, that political economy is a fruitful approach to entrepreneurship. The importance … the selected articles also show that the social value of entrepreneurship must be evaluated as it is realized. Three …