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The Organizational Architecture of Nonprofit Governance: Economic Calculation Within an Ecology of Enterprises

Auteri, Monica; Wagner, Richard - In: Public Organization Review 7 (2007) 1, pp. 57-68

This paper treats nonprofit firms as elements within the ecology of enterprises that constitute an economy. Within this ecological framework, nonprofit governance must to a significant extent be guided by economic signals generated through market competition. After we examine the problems of...

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Typical stages in industries' e-transformation -- hints for forecasting future entrepreneurial challenges in revenue management

Gersch, Martin; Goeke, Christian - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 1 (2007) 3, pp. 276-292

One specific form of industry transformation process is the so-called e-transformation, which focuses on the impacts of digitalisation and interconnectedness. Over the course of an industry sector's e-transformation, four characteristic stages of development can be identified to show particular...

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The role of managers, entrepreneurs and the literati in enterprise performance and economic growth

Teece, David J. - In: International Journal of Technological Learning, … 1 (2007) 1, pp. 43-64

Economic growth theory has underplayed the importance of the management of the business enterprise in economic growth and development. In today's global economy, business enterprises must be able to sense opportunities, seize or execute on such opportunities, and reconfigure and transform as...

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On the Effects of Redistribution on Growth and Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking

Clemens, Christiane; Heinemann, Maik - 2005

This paper investigates the redistributive effects of taxation on occupational choice and growth. We discuss a twoñsector economy in the spirit of Romer (1990). Agents engage in one of two alternative occupations: either selfñemployment in an intermediate goods sector characterized by...

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - RAND - 2007

entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …

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Homo Entreprenaurus?

Uusitalo, Roope - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1999

This paper examines the determinants of self-employment and transitions from wage work to self-employment using two sets of Finnish data from the 1990?s. The results show that capital constraints have only a minor effect on new business starts. Human capital, in the form of intergenerational...

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A short history of French spirit of enterprise (from 1780 till date) (In French)

BONIN, Hubert - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2005

Pessimistic views among French economist, political and scholar opinion givers have often prevailed about the assessment of French economic competitiveness ; that might be explained by negative surveys of the ability of economic elites to adapt themselves to the changes of the environment of...

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Knowledge as a Path-Dependence Process

Rizzello, Salvatore - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 6 (2004) 3, pp. 255-274

By following a new approach proposed by Cognitive and Neuroeconomics, this paper presents and extends that part of Hayek’s theory concerning knowledge in path-dependent terms, and shows that this is a fertile theory, opening new lines of inquiry for contemporary economics. In his theory of...

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The Determinants of Latent Entrepreneurship in Japan

Masuda, Tatsuyoshi - In: Small Business Economics 26 (2006) 3, pp. 227-240

This paper examines regional characteristics affecting the latent entrepreneurship in Japan, focusing on regional … governments. We define two types of people having the latent entrepreneurship as follows (1) persons merely wishing to be a self … unemployment rate, which are the macro economic indicators, had positive effects on latent entrepreneurship in Japan. Judging from …

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Not for Lack of Trying: American Entrepreneurship in Black and White

Köllinger, P.; Minniti, M. - In: Small Business Economics 27 (2006) 1, pp. 59-79

Using a sample obtained from a survey conducted in the United States during summer 2002, we study the variables related to observed differences in the rate of entrepreneurial involvement between black and white Americans. We find strong evidence that differences in subjective and often biased...

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