Uncertainty and institutions are each vital concepts in entrepreneurship research. However,
little work has been done to combine them into a consistent conceptual framework for …

Critical perspectives have called for the study of women's entrepreneurship as a route to
social change. This 'social turn'claims women are empowered and/or emancipated through …

Baumol's theory of entrepreneurial allocation has been widely utilized and cited by
management and entrepreneurship scholars over the last three decades. Despite the …

The present research examines the understudied impact of the regulatory environment on
the manifestation of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) among firms within an emerging …

Considering the importance that entrepreneurship takes in the economies of most countries,
the aim of this study was to compare two different geographical areas, studying the …

Social entrepreneurship research highlights the collaborative nature of social
entrepreneurial efforts. Further, acknowledging the embeddedness of social ventures in the …

This chapter offers a retrospective account of William Baumol's “Entrepreneurship:
Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive” in light of its influence on entrepreneurship …

Institutional entrepreneurship holds that institutions, as the rules of the game, provide payoff
structures affecting the allocation of entrepreneurship to productive, unproductive, or …

In his seminal contribution, Baumol (1990) proposes that the direction of entrepreneurial
effort towards its productive (eg, start-up activity) or unproductive (eg, rent-seeking) use in a …

Purpose The underlying assumptions of Baumol's theory of entrepreneurial allocation limits
its potential to answer some key questions related to the entrepreneurship allocation …