Many potential entrepreneurs face the choice as to whether they should collaborate when setting up in business. Small business research has generated little in the way of information or advice on collaborative entrepreneurship. This paper goes some way towards addressing that lack. The paper reports the findings of a survey of 106 collaborative entrepreneurs and describes their assessments of t...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of “informed finance” on technological change. We argue that the theoretical literature offers conflicting predictions on whether the information of financiers fosters or impedes firms’ innovation. Using data from a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, we find that the information of firms’ main banks, proxied by the duration of credit relationsh...

This study examines the coevolution of trust and legal institutions in a model competitive credit markets plagued by asymmetric information. When entrepreneurs’ relative payoff to productive activities versus cheating is private information, dishonest ones, who intend cheat, can enter be cross-subsidized honest engage activities. To exploit this benefit, entrepreneurs demand weak enforcement th...

Very little information exists in regards to the control options available for potato flea beetles, Epitrix spp. This short review covers both chemical and ecological options currently available for control of Epitrix spp. Synthetic pyrethroids are the weapon of choice for the beetles. However, the impetus in integrated pest management is to do timely (early-season) applicatio...

This paper examines empirically the link between the post-entry strategies of new entrepreneurs and the duration of the firm. We use a sample of French entrepreneurs that have set up or taken over a firm during the first six months of 1994. For firms that are still alive at least four years later we have information both on the individual pre-entry motives of the entrepreneurs and on the post e...

Extraordinarily successful Black entrepreneurs have received relatively little attention in the literature on Black socioeconomic progress in the US. The present study fi lls this gap by identifying the urban centres that have been the main locations of Black entrepreneurs who have been classifi ed by scholars as ‘eminent’. Biographical data from highly regarded encyclopaedic sources show that ...