Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity: An overview

PH Thornton, D Ribeiro-Soriano… - … small business journal, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars who study entrepreneurship have lent great value by exploring the factors that
explain how entrepreneurs create new businesses and thus, how societies and economies …

What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research

CM Van Praag, PH Versloot - Small business economics, 2007 - Springer
This article examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and
systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value …

The digital entrepreneurial ecosystem

F Sussan, ZJ Acs - Small Business Economics, 2017 - Springer
A significant gap exists in the conceptualization of entrepreneurship in the digital age. This
paper introduces a conceptual framework for studying entrepreneurship in the digital age by …

Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions

CJ Boudreaux, BN Nikolaev, P Klein - Journal of Business Venturing, 2019 - Elsevier
We examine how country-level institutional context moderates the relationship between
three socio-cognitive traits—entrepreneurial self-efficacy, alertness to new business …

[HTML][HTML] Entrepreneurship and well-being: The role of psychological autonomy, competence, and relatedness

N Shir, BN Nikolaev, J Wincent - Journal of Business Venturing, 2019 - Elsevier
Drawing upon the self-determination theory, we develop a two-stage multi-path mediation
model in which psychological autonomy mediates the relationship between active …

Can you gig it? An empirical examination of the gig economy and entrepreneurial activity

G Burtch, S Carnahan… - Management …, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
We examine how the entry of gig-economy platforms influences local entrepreneurial
activity. On the one hand, such platforms may reduce entrepreneurial activity by offering …

Solo self-employment and alternative work arrangements: A cross-country perspective on the changing composition of jobs

T Boeri, G Giupponi, AB Krueger… - Journal of Economic …, 2020 - aeaweb.org
The nature of self-employment is changing in most OECD countries. Solo self-employment is
increasing relative to self-employment with dependent employees, often being associated …

Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship

DB Audretsch, M Belitski, F Chowdhury… - Small Business …, 2022 - Springer
Government size, corruption, and tax policy can influence allocation towards necessity or
opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. Using a comparative multi-source sample across 52 …

Entrepreneurship as experimentation

WR Kerr, R Nanda, M Rhodes-Kropf - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014 - aeaweb.org
Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about the fundamental nature
of entrepreneurship still exist. We argue that entrepreneurship is about experimentation; the …

Seeking the roots of entrepreneurship: Insights from behavioral economics

T Åstebro, H Herz, R Nanda, RA Weber - Journal of Economic …, 2014 - aeaweb.org
There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in
entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to …