Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is … typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation … kinds of entrepreneurs. We find that the institutions consistent with self-employed entrepreneurs di¤er markedly from the …

institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by … supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by … institutions—entrepreneurs often help shape institutions themselves. The bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … either entrepreneurs or self-employed. The survey in addition contains detailed questions on economic preferences, attitudes … differences between self-identified entrepreneurs and the self-identified self-employed. Entrepreneurs differ substantially from …

In this paper entrepreneurs are defined as agents who bring about economic change by combining their own effort with … policies, taxation and the regulation of labor markets. Institutions have far-reaching effects on entrepreneurship, and they … entrepreneurship to the institutional setup it is maintained that in-depth analyses of specific institutions are required in order to …

Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or … reveals the bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and institutions. Core features of the entrepreneur force us to … channels of influence are isolated, analyzed and exemplified. Entrepreneurs influence formal economic institutions through …

In this introductory chapter to a collective volume dealing with the political economy of entrepreneurship,* we argue …, based on a suggested unifying framework, that political economy is a fruitful approach to entrepreneurship. The importance … the selected articles also show that the social value of entrepreneurship must be evaluated as it is realized. Three …