Entrepreneurship has been characterised as one of the most intriguing but equally elusive concepts in economics. This paper first tries to disentangle its major intellectual roots. Instead of amalgamating them into another all-inclusive synthesis, it then aims at a modular concept that preserves...

This paper presents a new 29-item measurement instrument designed to assess the impact of habits and behaviour of business founders on organizational routines. Adopting an evolutionary approach, habits and routines are conceived as social replicators with the former impacting the latter. The...

Is entrepreneurship covered in economics doctoral programs? Updating an earlier study (Johansson 2004), we examine leading programs in the United States and Sweden by textual analysis of textbooks and assigned articles in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and industrial organization courses. We...

The mixed growth performance of emerging market economies has revived angst about a "middle-income trap". However, a forensic review of statistical evidence shows that middle-income countries “escape” to higher income levels more often than both poorer and richer countries. At the same time,...

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) was founded in 1920, largely in response to controversies between free market advocates and proponents of centralized government planning, over the “fair” distribution of income in the American economy. As a result of an early agreement between...

Using an evolutionary approach that conceives of habits and routines as social replicators and their transmission and transformation explained through the mechanisms of variation, selection and retention, this longitudinal study explains the origin of organisational routines by investigating the...