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 …

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions … entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation theory are incorporated into the analysis. This includes the lack of a well …. When unique attributes of entrepreneurship are taken into account, some major conclusions of capital taxation models no …

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly … further: The name is changed to The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the Prize sum is roughly doubled to 100 …

We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …

Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This paper explores the history of … entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize … confronting the prize committee of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. <p> Entrepreneurship has developed in many sub …

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 …

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 …