This historical and comparative study examines the entrepreneurial roots of the nation's largest corporations based on a study of the 1997 Fortune 200 companies (197 of them were traced to entrepreneurial founders). The role that entrepreneurship played among the chief executives who founded...

This article develops linkages between business associations and economic growth viewed through the prism of new institutional economics. The literature on economic regulation, collective choice, and rent-seeking often portrays interest groups as redistributing wealth. In this article we present...

This paper is part of an ongoing research project designed to develop quantitative information on the demography and career path of the CEOs of the largest American corporations in the twentieth century. The paper presents both qualitative and quantitative information concerning such matters as...

In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational cues (such as the framing of an unrelated task) or primed influences people's likelihood to cross ethical boundaries. A promotion focus leads individuals to be more likely to act unethically than a prevention focus...