The purpose of this study is to identify key institutional determinants of firm emergence and growth. We do this using various types of data from Sweden. A characterization of a number of institutions and policy measures shows that they are likely to have contributed to an environment that...

Corporate venturing activities can expand a firm's business by creating new products and entering new markets. The literature suggests that entrepreneurial management should have a positive effect on corporate venturing activities and, as a consequence of this, a positive effect on a company's...

Proposes a model of determinants of individual small firm growth as a manner for measuring the occurrence and continuance of entrepreneurship. This model is based on the idea that growth motivation is a determinant of actual growth. This growth motivation is determined by perceived ability,...

Highlights the different levels of analysis used in entrepreneurship research. Level of analysis is considered to be the hierarchy of aggregation of data, from micro (e.g., individuals) to macro (e.g., region). In order to identify the levels of analysis, 63 articles published in 1998 in the...

Frequencies of the involvement of the Swedishpopulation in the small business sector and the characteristics of nascententrepreneurs are analyzed. A sample of 405 respondents (out of an initialgroup of 49,979 individuals) were interviewed by phone.The resultsindicate that, at the time of the...

What is Entrepreneurship? -- Entrepreneurship as Research Domain -- This Thing Called “Theory” -- General Design Issues -- Sampling Issues -- Operationalization Issues -- Special Topic: Preparing a “Secondary” Data Set -- Special Topic: Job Creation as the Dependent Variable -- Special...