significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

This book highlights the role of entrepreneurship, social capital and governance for regional economic development. In … recent decades, many researchers have claimed that entrepreneurship is the most critical factor in sustaining regional … economic growth. However, most entrepreneurship research is undertaken without considering the fundamental importance of the …