Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

Geography and Trade

This paper is an introduction to the special issue from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in Washington, D.C., in 2008. The paper has three objectives. First, to discuss the importance of the three stages of economic development, the factor-driven stage, the efficiency-driven stage and the innovation-driven stage. Second, to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship. Third, to present a summary of the papers in the context of the theory.

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Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutions

National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy implications

Social entrepreneurship has recently received greater recognition from the public sector, as well as from scholars. However, the lack of a unifying paradigm in the field has lead to a proliferation of definitions. Moreover, several approaches of the phenomenon, as well as different schools of thought, have emerged in different regions of the world. At first glance, because of different conceptions of capitalism and of the government's role, there seems to be a difference between the American and the European conceptions of social entrepreneurship. The objective of this paper is to clarify the concepts of ‘social entrepreneurship’, ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘social entrepreneurship organization’ and to examine whether there is a transatlantic divide in the way these are conceived and defined. After having justified the need for a definition, we present the different geographical perspectives. North American and European literatures on social entrepreneurship are critically analysed by means of Gartner's fo...

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The multiple faces of social entrepreneurship: A review of definitional issues based on geographical and thematic criteria

In the beginning was the corporation. Or so it seems, as it is pointed out in the first chapter of this handbook. However, the “modern industrial corporation” is a relatively recent invention in historical terms. Chandler (1990) dates its emergence to the last-half of the nineteenth century, when advances in transportation and communications both enabled and demanded the formation of large corporations managed by professionals. Such corporations came to represent the engines of national economic growth and of individual wealth creation in countries whose very membership in the group of industrialized nations speaks to the success of this organizational form (Acs, Introduction, this volume; Baumol, 2002).

Connecting the Study of Entrepreneurship and Theories of Capitalist Progress: An Epilog

When the market creates social problems, non-market solutions may alter or equalize them The response to social problems in many countries has been through legislative, regulatory or other government action In many countries in the developing world, state solutions are crippled by poor funding resources for social issues, lack of technical ability to achieve adequate solutions, and in some cases, lack of government legitimacy Given this, the ideal solutions for social problems must come from non-market and non-state sources We argue that philanthropy, a social innovation born in the United States, has great potential to work in other countries

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Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Global Economy

This study investigates the role of female ownership, and its moderating role in shaping the effect of firm age and access to finance on firm growth. We use a sample of 7203 firms in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and a mixed effects model, where both firm and regional characteristics are included. First, we test how women’s ownership affects two measures of firm growth (employment growth and Birch Index). Second, we investigate how women’s ownership influences the relationship between firm age and access to finance for firm growth. Our results indicate that gender is an important determinant of firm growth, but this is closely tied to firm age, access to finance, and varies with region and country. We conduct a robustness check using firm productivity instead of growth and we find largely opposite results for productivity compared to employment growth ownership. We also identify questions that emerge from our findings for managers and policy makers interested in women-owned firms.

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Female ownership, firm age and firm growth: a study of South Asian firms

Businesses play an important role in societies in conflict, contributing to trajectories of continued conflict or transitioning out of conflict. The institutional and historic context affects the potential of entrepreneurship and can be particularly important during times of change. In this paper, I discuss the relevance of the institutional and historic context of two cities in southern Iraq.

Sameeksha Desai

Papers

Connecting the Study of Entrepreneurship and Theories of Capitalist Progress: An Epilog

Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Global Economy

Female ownership, firm age and firm growth: a study of South Asian firms

A Tale of Entrepreneurship in Two Iraqi Cities

The role of institutions in latent and emergent entrepreneurship