The article presents scientific conclusions and recommendations for assessing the state of development small business private entrepreneurship factors affecting it, socio-economic aspects industry structural changes. KEYWORDS: business, entrepreneurship, statistical analysis, creation rate, export potential, methods, evaluation.

There is ongoing debate and some confusion about definitions and the use of the terms ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ both in academia and in the media. The authors argue that this is likely to be a result of latent historical meanings for the terms, which have subsequently been debunked by academia, prevailing in public perceptions. Measurements of business start-up rates, self employmen...

This is the first paper that highlights the role of spatial interactions, in the context of state bankruptcy laws, in the entrepreneurship decision. The focus of the paper is on small businesses. Small and medium enterprises represent between 96 percent to 99 percent of all enterprises in the US. This paper asks whether laws that facilitate easy exit are an important consideration in entry of s...

ii Preface and acknowledgments v List of figures xii List of tables xiv Acronyms and definitions used in the text xvii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Subject of the thesis 1 1.2 Background and justification for the research 2 1.3 Business groups in entrepreneurship research 5 1.4 Aims and objectives 7 1.5 Research design and methodology 8 1.6 Scope and context of the study 10 1.7 Structure of the...

The strategic role of the entrepreneur as an agent of economic transformation in society is visible in employment and wealth generation, stimulation of indigenous entrepreneurship or promotion of entrepreneurial culture. The Nigerian government has accordingly created the enabling environment to nurture entrepreneurial development, through the establishment of various agencies to provide financ...

This paper investigates the influence of entrepreneurship online teaching in science and technology degree courses in developing economies and the impact of this teaching on students’ attitudes towards starting a small business enterprise (SBE). An organised examination of the literature related to entrepreneurship teaching is discussed and illustrated to provide an archive of past research poi...

We conceptualise life course pathways to entrepreneurship embedded in the resource-based view of the small enterprise. As a partial test, we propose a specific pathway structured by class and mediated by gender relations. This is operationalized employing 18 waves of the British Household Panel Survey and event history random effect logistic regression modelling. Findings suggest a primary, cla...

Given entrepreneurs’ special role in the economic growth and development, many developed and developing countries are attempting to motivate more number of people who have entrepreneurial characteristics towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training courses in Ilam Province, Iran. In this researc...