Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Arbeiten vonWilliam Baumol und rekonstruiert seine ökonomische Erklärung für die spektakulärenWachstumserfolge westlicher Marktwirtschaften.

Dieser Beitrag skizziert eine „conceptual history“ der modernen Gesellschaft. Er unterscheideteine malthusianische Stagnationsphase und eine postmalthusianische Wachstumsphaseder Weltwirtschaftsgeschichte und entwickelt anhand eines Modells zur Interdependenzwirtschaftlicher und politischer...

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...

Drawing on Baumol’s concepts of productive, unproductive and destructiveentrepreneurship and relevant amendments, this thesis aims to contribute to theentrepreneurship literature by developing a conceptual framework which allowsoperationalising the concepts for empirical assessment....

This paper investigates time allocation decisions in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs using a model that distinguishes between effects of preferences and productivity on the number of working hours...

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...

Productivity, or the amount of output produced by a given number of inputs,can be measured in a number of ways;1 the focus of Governmentpolicy, and much of the theoretical and empirical literature, is on labourproductivity, which provides the theme of the discussion in this review.A central...