Researchers and policy-makers must clarify andjustify the criteria used to define family business.Once the scale of thefamily business phenomenon is more clearly understood, policies encouraging thedevelopment and survival of family firms may be introduced; for example, policymakers may lower or...

Previous research suggests that founding entrepreneurs have little effect on firm productivity. The validity of this theory was examined using data gathered from a random sample of 427 independent, unquoted U. K. companies in 1995. During the following two years, the survey was supplemented with...

This paper studies the relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment. We focus on Necessity TEA (total entrepreneurial activity for those individuals pushed into entrepreneurship because they have no better alternatives for work). We a priori predict that when unemployment is high, TEA...