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. …

What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value … system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non …

institutions with better incentive structures for entrepreneurs are perceived as being of higher quality by this group. We find … institutional quality is related to less acceptance by entrepreneurs compared to the rest of society. …

that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we …

Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational …

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio …