This paper investigates an essential aspect of the entrepreneurial personality: why women's
self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal points. It …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic
growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies, and many developed …

Drawing on the rational choice approach and the economic sociology of migration, this
article discusses the role of social networks in terms of location-specific social capital. It …

The idea of Social Capital is an attempt to incorporate social considerations into mainstream
economic thinking. Its proponents feel that social factors are properly quantifiable. So, they …

Although rational choice theory has made considerable advances in other social sciences,
its progress in sociology has been limited. Some sociologists' reservations about rational …

This paper provides a review of empirical studies into the impact of formal schooling on
entrepreneurship selection and performance in industrial countries. We describe the main …

Seit Jahrzehnten nehmen die Migrationsbewegungen weltweit stetig zu und erfassen die
gesamten Weltregionen. Die einstige Einteilung zwischen den sog. Aus-und …

We integrate insights from the social embeddedness perspective with research on immigrant
entrepreneurship to theorize on how family resources influence exit from entrepreneurship …

Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie
and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on …

This article uses objective and subjective measures of small business resilience and
multiple categories of social capital pay‐offs to answer two main questions. Does social …