entrepreneurship is one of the key requirements for economic development. so determinants of the development of entrepreneurial activities has always been of interest to researchers. economic freedom and reducing the size of government is to foster entrepreneurship as substrates. the main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of economic freedom on the development of entrepreneurial ...

Key words Strategy implementation Managing large traditional organizations Entrepreneurial behavior 2 ABSTRACT Innovative use of resources to pursue opportunities has become vital for all—even large traditional—organizations. While traditional management literature has identified contextual features to foster entrepreneurial behavior, little research has looked at why—in the same organizational...

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to using vari...

Policy makers have long been interested in whether tax policies can be used to encourage entrepreneurial activity, but prior studies have produced ambiguous results. We use a twelveyear panel of tax return data to examine the effects of tax rates on entrepreneurial entry. We calculate household-level tax rates and employ multiple measures of entrepreneurship. Our results offer convincing eviden...

Purpose: This article examines the significance of innovation to organisations following strategies of entrepreneurial orientation. In particular, the study looks at the significance innovation adds to the implementation of contemporary management control systems (MCSs) and to improved performance in these organisations. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative analysis was conducted based o...

Research on entrepreneurialism and strategic thinking has taken a cognitive and constructivist turn in recent years. Such a turn is to be welcomed. However, what remains relatively unexplored, even within this 'softer' approach to entrepreneurial strategising, is a sustained focus on the underlying perceptual mechanisms shaping the processes of cognition and sensemaking. This paper seeks to ext...

Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now widely recognized that the supply of entrepreneurial talent is likely to be important for economic growth, innovation and job creation. This study consists of an indepth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be affected by the kind of tax an...

Mounting evidence suggests that economic dynamism and entrepreneurial activity are declining in the United States. Over the past thirty years, the annual number of new business startups and the pace of job reallocation have declined significantly. A variety of causes for these trends have been suggested, including an increasing ability of firms to respond to idiosyncratic shocks, technology ind...

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range of countries. An important element of this paper is that we compare the effects of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth in high income, transition and l...