Institutions and the shaping of different forms of entrepreneurship.

Harbi, Sana El; Anderson, Alistair R.

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is a broad concept encompassing a wide range of activities, from the Schumpertian ideal associated with innovation to simply creating a job for oneself. Because we ask about national differences in entrepreneurship, we consider national differences for entrepreneurship, the institutions, and if these relate to the emergence of different types of enterprise. We propose that national patent grants represent innovation and that national self-employment rates represent job replacement. Interestingly, we found that institutional factors that determine self-employment and innovation may act in opposite directions: what encourages self-employment might discourage innovation and vice-versa.

Citation

HARBI, S.E. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2010. Institutions and the shaping of different forms of entrepreneurship. Journal of socio-economics [online], 39(3), pages 436-444. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2010.02.011

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 11, 2010
• Online Publication Date: Feb 20, 2010
• Publication Date: Jun 30, 2010
• Deposit Date: Dec 14, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 14, 2010
• Journal: Journal of socio-economics
• Print ISSN: 1053-5357
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 436-444
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2010.02.011
• Keywords: Institutions; Entrepreneurship; Panel data; Innovation; Selfemployment
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/547