versity. The author gratefully acknowledges helpful comments from two anonymous referees of this journal. 1Prior to Smith, the mercantilists were interested in this same question and thought that a nation’s accumulation of gold and silver increased its wealth, and the physiocrats argued that wealth is the product of the land, so encouraged agriculture. Thus the issue was raised before Smith’s m...

The presence of a gender gap in entrepreneurship has been well studied in previous literature. There are various contributing factors, including differences in human capital, which has been reviewed less so than social capital. Through a career survey of Wharton MBAs, this research paper 1) examines the presence of an entrepreneurship gender gap; 2) identifies human capital variables that predi...

Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. However, the rate of entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate, or the number of startups. We argue that those metrics give rise to misleading inferences regarding high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. To unambiguously...

Entrepreneurship has been traditionally concentrated in the hands of a few small communities in most developing economies. As these economies restructure, it is evident that these communities will be unable to satisfy the increased demand for new entrepreneurs. The analysis in this paper suggests that entrepreneurs without a family background in business will fill the gap, even in industries wh...

This paper addresses an answer to the research question: does entrepreneurship education lead to establishment of new firms?. The research in the paper was based on a survey with a questionnaire and the questionnaire was sent to two different groups of respondents, a Respond group (who had completed an entrepreneurship education) and a Control group (who had not passed an entrepreneurship educa...

Over the last three decades entrepreneurship has become a hot topic in economics and management. Much of the entrepreneurship research literature has built upon insights of economists such as Schumpeter, Knight, and Kirzner, each of whom has inspired a distinct strand of entrepreneurship theory and application. Schumpeterian innovation and Kirznerian alertness are the best-known concepts of ent...

This article applies scientometric techniques to study the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship between 1990 and 2013. Using a combination of topic mapping, author and journal co-citation analyses, and overlay visualization of new and hot topics in the field, this article makes important contribution to the entrepreneurship research by identifying 46 topics in the 24-year history of entre...

Introduction It is hard enough to build a strong entrepreneurship program within a school of business. For a quarter of a century those who pursued such programs have faced questions about legitimacy. Is the field of entrepreneurship a unique domain of teaching and research ( Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Busenitz et al., 2003)? Are the rigor, methods and cumulative nature of entrepreneurship r...

Social entrepreneurship—the process of employing market-based methods to solve social problems—continues to grow in popularity but remains poorly understood. Researchers have justifiably expressed a growing desire to leave behind definitional debates regarding social entrepreneurship and instead focus on its antecedents and consequences. Arend’s (2013) response to our article (Miller, Grimes, M...