The entrepreneur, in one form or another, has been around a long time in both economic
theory and empirical studies of entry. Argues that these traditions have exhibited an over …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for the firms located inside
special economic zones (SEZs) in India and to assess the effect of location on …

Our starting point was to argue that the entrepreneur is central to the organisation of
production in smaller firms. We also contended that it was crucial to understand how …

Alfred Marshall, who once proclaimed that the Mecca of the economist lies in Economic
Biology, is remembered more for the mechanical analogies contained in the appendices of …

Many different theories that have attempted to explain why smaller entrepreneurial firms
exist. Surprisingly, very little empirical work has tested the obvious questions, such as: Are …

The present paper analyzes the various ideas, arguments and policy suggestions of
Xenophon on the issue of entrepreneurship, and demonstrates that he had already …

Purpose–The reader of Alfred Marshall writings confronts a variety of businessmen portraits
that coexist along his epoch. The purpose of this paper is to describe Marshall's …

Recently, competence/capability has been introduced as a rival and as a complement to the
idea of transaction-costs as the foundation for a modern theory of the firm. However, while …

The recently entrepreneurial discussion let us believe that everything human beings are
doing can be apostrophed as “entrepreneurial”. There is almost a range of entrepreneurs …

The development of Marshallian thought in the realm of business theory has contributed to
the appearance of a new branch of economic theory: Industrial Organization, as pioneered …