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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society

Naudé, Wim - 2024

Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of …. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual … growth, the paper then tries to answer the question of what role entrepreneurship could play in a post-growth society or in …

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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata

Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013

enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …

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High-growth entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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What drives spatial clusters of entrepreneurship in China? : evidence from economic census data

Liang, Zheng; Zhao, Zhong - 2017

Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …

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The More Business Owners the Merrier? The Role of Tertiary Education

van Praag, Mirjam; van Stel, Andre - 2011

Policy in developed countries is often based on the assumption that higher business ownership rates induce economic value. Recent microeconomic empirical evidence casts doubts on the validity of this assumption or, at least, leads to a more nuanced view: Especially the top performing business...

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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - 2009

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

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Entrepreneurship and regional economic growth: Towards a general theory of start-ups

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2008

Start-ups of new firms are important for economic growth. However, start-up rates differ significantly between countries and within regions of the same country. A large empirical literature studies the reasons for this and attempts to identify the regional determinants of start-ups. In contrast,...

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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, A. Roy - 2008

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that - when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276826

Types of entrepreneurship and economic growth

Stam, Erik; van Stel, André J. - 2009

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We … use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range … effects of entrepreneurship in general and growth-oriented entrepreneurship in particular. We present empirical tests of the …

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Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Amodio, Francesco; … - 2019

-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …

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