In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

To evaluate the validity of distinguishing between opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship, this paper investigates … predominant motive, with a similar ratio of necessity-to-opportunity entrepreneurship being identified as amongst legitimate … entrepreneurship in the informal economy. The outcome is a call for the necessity/opportunity dualism to be transcended and replaced by …

The starting point of this paper is the recognition that the entrepreneurship literature is dominated by a normative … entrepreneurial endeavour as the revered heroic figures normally associated with entrepreneurship, but also how this is not a weak …, necessity-driven, transient and disappearing form of entrepreneurship, but resilient, opportunity-driven and persistent. The …