Despite the growing attention to social entrepreneurship as a scholarly field of research, it is still in a stage of … the evolution of social entrepreneurship as a field of scientific inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to gauge the … current state of empirical research in the field by reviewing 31 empirical research studies on social entrepreneurship …

aspects of the recent scientific literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business, on the one hand, and … pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth. It also pays attention to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a new and …

Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …

The study of the determinants of entrepreneurship at the country levelhas been dominated by economic influences. The … relative stability of differences in levels of entrepreneurship across coun-tries suggeststhat other forces such as certain …

in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. This paper attempts to make a first step identifying …

independent entrepreneurship, also known as self-employment or business ownership, and economic development. We argue that the … reemergence of independent entrepreneurship is based on at least two 'revolutions'. If we distinguish between solo self …-employed at the lower end of the entrepreneurship spectrum, and ambitious and/or innovative entrepreneurs at the upper end, many …

countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second … (uncertaintyavoidance) may have a diverging impact on entrepreneurship. Possibly, a climate of uncertainty avoidancein large organizations …, suggesting that risingopportunity costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception in this cultural environment. In a …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …

the effect of covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship …