V<sc>an</sc> <sc> der</sc> Z<sc>wan</sc> P., V<sc>erheul</sc> I., T<sc>hurik</sc> R. and G<sc>rilo</sc> I. Entrepreneurial progress: climbing the entrepreneurial ladder in Europe and the United States, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This study investigates which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined...

This paper investigates an essential aspect of the entrepreneurial personality: why women’s self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal points. It discriminates between the preference for self-employment and actual involvement in self-employment using a...

In this article, the process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up," "thinking about it," "taking steps for starting up," "having a young business," "having an older business," and "no longer...

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e. as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12 000 observations from the 2004 'Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship' covering the 25...

'This book is a well written and handy source for readers. Additionally, it provides an overview of current issues relevant to the development of entrepreneurial policy, which is based on interesting case studies across a number of nations ...' - Dessy Irawati, International Journal of...

For Bertrand duopoly with linear costs, we establish via a single (counter-)example that: (i) A new monotone transformation of the firms' profit functions may lead to the supermodularity of transformed profits when the standard log and identity transformations both fail to do so, and (ii)...

In a multi-commodity framework with absence of wealth effects, we prove the existence of equilibrium for Cournot oligopoly, and that the concept is completely non-ambiguous. We also obtain a uniquely defined endogenous inverse demand function, depending only on the competitive sector.