Tomasz Mickiewicz

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a comparative perspective to explore the ways in which institutions and networks have influenced entrepreneurial development in Russia and found that Russia's institutional environment is important in explaining its relatively low levels of entrepreneurship development, where the latter is measured in terms of both number of start-ups and existing business owners.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain entrepreneurial growth aspirations across individuals and institutional contexts, and find that the relationship between growth aspiring entrepreneurs and institutions is complex; they benefit simultaneously from strong government (in the sense of property rights enforcement), and smaller government, but are constrained by corruption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model and test the relationship between social and commercial entrepreneurship drawing on social capital theory, and propose that the country prevalence rate of social entrepreneurship is an indicator of constructible nation-level social capital and enhances the likelihood of individual commercial entry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it with all available GEM country samples and in more detail with Brazil and Poland.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur and find that entrepreneurial entry is inversely related to the size of the government, and more weakly to the extent of corruption.