The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …. -- Entrepreneurship ; formal and informal sectors ; shadow economy ; institutional arrangements ; comparative studies of countries …

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … financial sector. -- Female entrepreneurship ; state sector ; informal finance …

sector. However, these results are sensitive to the level of development. -- Entrepreneurship ; property rights ; access to …

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … effects models. -- Entrepreneurship ; government ; market freedom ; corruption …

-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient … ; entrepreneurship …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 … property rights. -- entrepreneurship ; institutions ; corruption ; property rights ; government ; Global Entrepreneurship …

We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances … commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990 …) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …