Excess entry and entrepreneurial decisions: the role of overconfidence / Philipp Koellinger, Mari Minniti, and Christian Schade -- Understanding the gender gap in entrepreneurship: a multicountry examination / I. Elaine Allen and Nan S. Langowitz -- Defining and identifying family...

We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the existing explanations for this decline, we put forward the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less...

As governments across the world look to entrepreneurship as a way to increase the wealth and well-being of their countries, this volume brings together leading scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of entrepreneurial activity based on empirical data.