We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. -- entrepreneurship ; jack-of-all-trades ; risk …

redistributive gains in the form of better loan terms as network members. -- entrepreneurship ; financiers ; networks ; start …

shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; firm size …

employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship … opportunities which sell to other businesses. Implications of the findings are discussed. -- Nascent entrepreneurship …

This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …

determinants of business ownership in America. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; family ; business ownership …

Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long-term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two … are related. Part of the confusion can be traced back to the measurement of entrepreneurship, biased towards independent … entrepreneurship (self-employed and new firms), and excluding entrepreneurship within established organizations. We shed new light on …