In this article, the process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from ldquo;never thought about starting a businessrdquo; to ldquo;gave up,rdquo; ldquo;thinking about it,rdquo; ldquo;taking steps for starting up,rdquo; ldquo;having a young...

This paper investigates why women's self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal points. It discriminates between the preference for self-employment and actual involvement in self-employment using a two (probit) equation model. It makes a systematic...

We investigate whether women and men differ with respect to the steps they take in the entrepreneurial process, distinguishing between five successive steps described by the following positions: (1) quot;never thought about itquot;; (2) quot;thinking about starting up a businessquot;; (3)...

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...

V<sc>an</sc> <sc> der</sc> Z<sc>wan</sc> P., V<sc>erheul</sc> I., T<sc>hurik</sc> R. and G<sc>rilo</sc> I. Entrepreneurial progress: climbing the entrepreneurial ladder in Europe and the United States, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This study investigates which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined...

The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from “never thought about starting a business†to “gave upâ€, “thinking about itâ€, “taking steps for starting upâ€, “having a young businessâ€,...

In this article, the process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up," "thinking about it," "taking steps for starting up," "having a young business," "having an older business," and "no longer...

The present document analyzes the linkages between globalization, entrepreneurship and the role of regions. After dealing with the meaning of globalization, the regional dimension of the response to globalization is described where downsizing, knowledge spillovers and agglomeration are the...