and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship- facilitating entry …

institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable … framework conditions for entrepreneurship. In both contexts, entrepreneurs are challenged either by external resistance toward … literature is not an artefact of stable entrepreneurship-facilitating institutional framework conditions. …

comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an … decades later were major historical shocks to the economy in general, and to entrepreneurship specifically. Our comparative … analysis of East and West Germany assesses how these shocks affected the level of entrepreneurship at the regional level …

and a tradition of entrepreneurship have long-run positive effects on development in regions that face disruptive shocks …. Entrepreneurship and knowledge play a less important role for development across West German regions, where no significant shocks …