Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between corruption and productive entrepreneurship in general and whether it depends on countries' specific characteristics in particular.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a unique data set of entrepreneurial...

This article uses an original dataset of 102 countries which uniquely enable us to distinguish between high-tech and low-tech entrepreneurs to examine the dissociative interplay between corruption, democracy, and the two kinds of entrepreneurship. Existing literature has demonstrated that...

This study was driven by an initial finding that female founders’ participation rates in Israeli accelerators are significantly higher (15.3%) than their participation rate in the Israeli startup sector (7.4%). Linking accelerators’ design to the known barriers for female entrepreneurship,...