In this chapter entrepreneurship is introduced in its economic and academic setting; an economic theory and practice outside the perimeter of classical input-output economics. By the beginning of the 20th century, neo-classical economics had refined the theory of the capitalist economy to one...

Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps or hinders new venture performance. Reconciling this inconsistency, this paper suggests a new conceptual approach to disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by...

Auf der Basis einer umfassenden Analyse internationaler empirischer Studien der vergangenen 25 Jahre sowie einer empirischen Untersuchung von 468 jungen KMU setzt sich Sascha Kraus erstmals für den deutschsprachigen Raum mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen strategischer Planung und Erfolg in jungen...

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...