The concept of entrepreneurship in the German works ofJoseph Alois Schumpeter is considered, emphasizing its historicity, conceptualroots, and implications. Entrepreneurship in Schumpeter's work hasconventionally been interpreted as a dual concept, involving a shift from theearly model of the...

This paper presents a new 29-item measurement instrument designed to assess the impact of habits and behaviour of business founders on organizational routines. Adopting an evolutionary approach, habits and routines are conceived as social replicators with the former impacting the latter. The...

Using an evolutionary approach that conceives of habits and routines as social replicators and their transmission and transformation explained through the mechanisms of variation, selection and retention, this longitudinal study explains the origin of organisational routines by investigating the...

It is well known that protestant and puritan environments historically have fostered entrepreneurs. This paper looks at serial entrepreneurship which took place in Norway in the 19th century in networks led by the puritan leader Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1824) and his followers.The paper seeks to...

The continuing underdevelopment of the Ethnic Groups in North East India in the face of fast growing Indian economy needs a critical study on various aspects of the Ethnic economic behavior in relation to socio-cultural environment, which not only envelops them but also determines their economic...

The standard neoclassical approach to economic theorising excludes, by definition, economic emergence and the related phenomenon of entrepreneurship. We explore how the most economic of human behaviours, entrepreneurship, came to be largely excluded from mainstream economic theory. In contrast,...

One way by which microentrepreneurs can increase their ability to take debt is to take equity alongside, thus respecting prudent ratios and reducing stress. But microequity has not developed in most of the developing world. At the same time, since 1983, microequity has been started in France...