provides a basis upon which future research on the relationship between political environments and entrepreneurship can build. …

The entrepreneurial theory of the firm argues that entrepreneurship, properly understood, is a crucial but neglected … entrepreneurship in the work of Schumpeter, Kirzner, and (especially) Knight, the paper makes the case for the entrepreneurial theory …

The first essay builds upon economic theories of entrepreneurship that view the decision to engage in entrepreneurship … entrepreneurs investigate entrepreneurial opportunities. As such, this research provides a broader view of the evaluation stage of … entrepreneurs. Using the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, a nationally representative dataset of US adults working to start …

This thesis focuses on women entrepreneurs' underperformance in terms of business performance, specifically addressing … children pose a different set of challenges to men and women entrepreneurs. By acknowledging the overlap of gender, family, and … different set of challenges to female entrepreneurs and raises an alternate cause for female underperformance. …

questions: (RQ1): How are entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial work communicatively constituted by young adults?; (RQ1a): What … are the D/discourses of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial work for young adults?; and (RQ1b): What are the material …-symbolic intersections of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial work? To respond to these questions, multiple methods were used in this study …