We posit that entrepreneurs who engage in strategic activities will have high growth aspirations. Our proposed … actual entrepreneurs …

-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 … corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …