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...

This paper argues that liberty and progress arose due to the generalized increasing returns to economic activity. These increasing returns follow from the gradual, cumulative process of institutionalizing liberties. As a society adopts an institutional framework from accumulated liberties, there...

This paper makes a simple but underappreciated point: due to the open-ended nature of constitutional entrepreneurship, the personal characteristics of constitutional entrepreneurs — intellect, will, virtues and vices, etc. — directly bear on constitutional change. The paper demonstrates this...

Although entrepreneurship education is thriving, it often lacks a substantial foundation in economic theory and history, and therefore also an appreciation of the overarching social significance of entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to explore one way economics can enhance...

“Diaspora entrepreneurs are people with a foot in two countries but by definition they live outside of the country of their origin, at least part of the time” (Winkel, 2010). They exist and their numbers are on the rise.The contemporary human landscape is dramatically changing. As diaspora...

This paper provides a multifaceted review and analysis of the Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development and specifically the creative destruction effect intertwined with the business cycles, and their effectiveness in explaining the long-run economic growth by first, looking into the main...

The paper highlights the relationship between economic growth and entrepreneurship, while appreciating the difference between necessity entrepreneurship and opportunity entrepreneurship, based on the available literature, and asserts that creation, survival and success of new ventures is an area...

The objective of this article is setting a cornerstone to compare and understand the phenomenon of graduate entrepreneurship in developing and developed countries. Our central research questions are: Are there differences in the entrepreneurial intentions of university students? What are the...