The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …

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 …

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

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …

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 …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …