The current empirical entrepreneurship literature mainly shows a positive correlation between entrepreneurship … (measured as the number of startups) and economic growth. However, the mechanisms by which entrepreneurship exerts its positive … efficient, new companies may lead to closures of less efficient ones. Based on an assumption that economic entrepreneurship in …

Social entrepreneurship has been recognized as a helpful instrument of social and economic policy. The European … Commission, namely, has recognized very early the importance of social organizations on economic growth and social innovation … entrepreneurship and institutional environment in Portugal. A quantitative approach is used in the study, and primary data were …

Social entrepreneurship gradually becomes a priority choice for international organizations, financial partners and … for development of social entrepreneurship. The business environment in which social enterprises operate is a transversal … funding, room for innovation, collaboration with the business sector and lack of public and customer recognition are some of …