This paper explores the institutional factors that encourage opportunity entrepreneurship in order to achieve higher … productive behavior such as entrepreneurial activity. Thus, opportunity entrepreneurship is identified as one such mechanism that …-2012), we find that informal institutions have a higher impact on opportunity entrepreneurship than formal institutions …

This study questions the assumption that entrepreneurship unequivocally leads to economic growth. Using insights from … institutional theory and development economics, we reevaluate entrepreneurship’s contribution towards economic growth. Our study … uses Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data for a panel of 83 countries from 2002 to 2014 and highlights several …

This study aims to determine whether big business or institutions comprise a more significant entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship changes according to the economic development stage; (2) if big businesses affect the two different entrepreneurship … types, namely, opportunity- and necessity-driven entrepreneurship, differently; and (3) which institutional factors are …