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Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...
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entrepreneurship waned in importance, the general public grew increasingly hostile towards capitalism, and by the late 1970s explicit … increasingly predominant, did not foresee the revival of entrepreneurship that took place in the Western countries around 1980. …
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We investigate the dramatic transformation of ownership policies and ownership structure in Sweden during the postwar period. After WWII, Swedish ownership policies were guided by a socialist vision where the ultimate goal was abolition of private ownership. These policies came to an end in the...
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We analyze the development of the Swedish ownership model after World War II. The controlling ownership in Swedish firms is typically concentrated to one or two owners. Often, but not always, the controlling owners are Swedish families. Thus, the model resembles the typical corporate control...
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Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now … creation. In this study we provide an in-depth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be … intrapreneurship can substitute for entrepreneurship. However, in an environment where entry, exit and turnover of firms are important …
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Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions … entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation theory are incorporated into the analysis. This includes the lack of a well …. When unique attributes of entrepreneurship are taken into account, some major conclusions of capital taxation models no …
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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 …
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The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …
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destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and … therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of entrepreneurship in real world circumstances characterized by suboptimal … institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the …
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