A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in
recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into …

Entrepreneurship has been linked to economic development at the regional and national
levels, yet the microeconomic nuances of entrepreneurial diversity and the challenges that …

This article uses UK data to consider how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) 1
coped during the recent financial crisis. This is important, as SMEs are major contributors to …

This paper examines the relationships between firm age and entrepreneurs experience on
SME performance after the 2008/09 global financial crisis. We find that in general the crisis …

A proposed explanation for why business creation is often found to increase in recessions is
that there are two components to entrepreneurship–“opportunity” and “necessity”–the latter …

In two studies, we investigate whether the link between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and
entrepreneurial intentions depends on outcome expectations. In Study 1, we exploit the …

This paper examines how changes to the institutional environment in a crisis-hit economy
impact on entrepreneurial activity. Through a case study of Greece, the paper demonstrates …

Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic
upswings. I show that this is mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a …

This paper examines public policies aimed at enhancing entrepreneurship. Drawing upon
both theory and prior empirical work, it formulates four tests of policy effectiveness and …

Drawing upon the job demand-control model and analyzing more than 600,000 responses
from the nationally representative Gallup survey data over the 2010–2016 period, we find …