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...

Job creation is perhaps the key political and economic issue of our time, yet this is one of only three papers to date to consider the nature of job creation amongst the self-employed. We develop a utility based model of self-employment which allows for the self-employed employees. The theory...

Despite the importance of high technology firms to the UK’s economy, relatively little is known about factors contributing to these firms’ long-run growth and survival. We examine these factors using a unique longitudinal dataset combining two waves of detailed surveys of 345 UK high tech...

Thanks to the efforts of researchers including McDougall and Oviatt (1994), Autio, Sapienza and Almeida (2000), Zahra, Ireland and Hitt (2000), Yli-Renko, Autio and Tontti (2002), B¿rgel, Fier, Licht and Murray (2004) and Sapienza, Autio, George and Zahra (2006), a set of more challenging...

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...

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...