We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

Despite the vitality and dynamism that the field of entrepreneurship has experienced in the last decade, the issue of … environment’ of the field of entrepreneurship and to analyze the existence and characterization of (in)visible college(s) based on … entrepreneurship research. Based on more than a thousand papers published between 2005 and 2010 in seven core entrepreneurship journals …

This paper conducts a comprehensive study on entrepreneurship dynamics using a large longitudinal matched employer … entrepreneurship. …

Entrepreneurship, in general, and rural entrepreneurship, in particular, has become a dynamic field of research in the … Scopus (until March 2013), we found that within the entrepreneurship literature, ‘rural entrepreneurship’ has been largely … overlooked and has gradually lost momentum. Rural entrepreneurship is an essentially ‘European’ concern, whose most prolific …