This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent lies in the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. By determining the nature of the discovery and exploitation processes, institutions and technology play an essential role in shaping...

Il dibattito sulla frammentazione e fragilità del sistema imprenditoriale italiano di fronte alle sfide dell’economia della conoscenza e dell’internazionalizzazione si intreccia con quello relativo al funzionamento dei meccanismi di generazione e di allocazione del capitale umano. Tale...

This paper addresses the following questions: Are women entrepreneurs empowered by entrepreneurship, and critically, does entrepreneurship offer emancipation? Our theoretical position is that entrepreneurship is socially embedded and must be recognized as a social process with economic outcomes....

Chapter 1: Blockchain in the Global South: Key Issues and Current Status -- Chapter 2: Political and Administrative Consequences -- Chapter 3: Facilitation of Entrepreneurial Activities -- Chapter 4: Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics -- Chapter 5: Blockchain in the Mineral and Metal...