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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729197
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Where Schumpeter was Nearly Right - The Swedish Model and Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Henrekson, Magnus; Jakobsson, Ulf - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419535
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The Transformation of Ownership Policy and Structure in Sweden: Convergence towards the Anglo-Saxon Model?
Henrekson, Magnus; Jakobsson, Ulf - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645291
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The Swedish Model of Corporate Ownership and Control in Transition
Henrekson, Magnus; Jakobsson, Ulf - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645325
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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism
Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818438
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Employee Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies
Bengtsson, Ola; Hand, John R. M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818473
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The Swedish Corporate Control Model: Convergence, Persistence or Decline?
Henrekson, Magnus; Jakobsson, Ulf - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
This paper explores the effects of deregulation and globalization on the dominant mode of corporate governance in Swedish public firms. The effects are multidimensional—the direction of change in corporate governance cannot be determined by simply examining whether a convergence towards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784428