Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by … the developing world tends to be low productivity employment, and as countries move up the development path, the …

, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship …

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a …

general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship.The implication is that …

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …

entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a …