Measuring entrepreneurship: Type, motivation, and growth

Desai, Sameeksha

doi:10.15185/izawol.327

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“…1 For example, Desai (2017) writes, "There is also a disconnect between firm-level and country-level data. Country-level data is helpful to understand the overall trend and to track major changes over time.…”

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“…The data for this measure come from crosscountry survey data collected by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). TEA can be divided into necessity-driven entrepreneurs (NDE) and opportunity-driven entrepreneurs (ODE) (Desai, 2017). NDE is the percentage of entrepreneurs involved in TEA who have no other option for work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…NDE is the percentage of entrepreneurs involved in TEA who have no other option for work. ODE is the percentage of entrepreneurs involved in TEA in order to improve or maintain their income or increase their independence (Desai, 2017).…”

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Does FDI promote entrepreneurial activities? A meta-analysis

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This study uses meta-analysis to analyze 557 estimates from 35 studies that estimate the effect of inward FDI on entrepreneurial activity. We address two questions: (i) Does FDI lead to greater entrepreneurial activity in host countries? (ii) What factors are responsible for the different estimates across studies? In addressing these questions, we make two methodological contributions. We extend the new Andrews-Kasy meta-analysis estimators (Andrews & Kasy, 2019) to allow for explanatory variables, and we develop a nested framework of multiple meta-analysis models that allows for testing between models and model selection. We estimate that, across all studies, the average estimated effect of FDI on entrepreneurship is positive but small in size, and statistically insignificant. In contrast, the average effect from studies that control for endogeneity is negative and statistically significant.

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“…The second observation is that measurement indicator applied do not capture entrepreneurship either conceptually or empirically (Ahmad & Hoffman, 2007). There are limitations with TEA, business start-up rates, the prevalence of MSMEs and self-employment as measures of entrepreneurship (Desai, 2017;Bergman & Stephan, 2013;Shane, 2009;Ahmad & Hoffman, 2007;Kukoc & Regan, n.d.). Nonetheless, the paradox is premised on the assumption that entrepreneurship in developing countries is capable of igniting economic development.…”

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Reflecting on the Entrepreneurship Paradox in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mwatsika

2021

Management & Economics Research Journal

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Entrepreneurship is a strategy for economic growth and it is perceived to be higher in developing countries. But other scholars found that it does not bring economic growth in developing countries. The purpose of the study was to reflect on this paradox in Sub Saharan Africa from neoclassical economic theory where entrepreneurship is perceived as carrying out innovations. A cross-sectional survey of enterprises was undertaken in Malawi to measure values of new products, new methods of production, new markets and new enterprises. Comparison of mean values and 2 independent samples tests were used to analyse innovations carried out, types of entrepreneurial enterprises and their prevalence. The study found that carrying out innovations among enterprises in Malawi is low. Opportunity-motivated, growth-oriented and limited liability enterprises are entrepreneurial types of enterprises but there were very few. Therefore the paradox depends on the theory which guides the understanding of entrepreneurship. The classical economic perspective reflects the paradox while the neoclassical economic perspective does not. The study contributes to knowledge on the types of entrepreneurial enterprises and that the paradox depends on the understanding of entrepreneurship. The findings imply that entrepreneurship is ineffective for economic growth in developing countries because of a lack of carrying out innovations. Therefore, the understanding of entrepreneurship in developing countries needs to be adjusted to neoclassical economic theories so that policy focuses on supporting entrepreneurial enterprises for entrepreneurship to be effective for economic growth, ceteris paribus.

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“…To measure entrepreneurship, researchers mainly take five perspectives: self-employment, new firm formation, early-stage entrepreneurship, necessity entrepreneurship and opportunity entrepreneurship [33,34]. The first two (i.e., self-employment, new firm formation) apply to almost any entrepreneurship research, while the other three have special focuses.…”

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth within a City

Huang

Chen

2021

Businesses

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Entrepreneurship usually takes place in innovative systems, mostly in cities. Cities, with unique features, may alter the impact of entrepreneurship. This paper employs multiple regression models to assess the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth, considering the moderation effect of the city context. We use Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the dependent variable and government spending, labor, fixed and financial capital and entrepreneurship as the independent variables. The data are from the 2003–2017 yearbooks of Zhaoqing, Shantou and Meizhou (three cities with distinct cultural and geographic features in Guangdong, China). We conclude that (1) the three cities’ GDPs highly rely on traditional factors of production (i.e., government spending, labor and fixed and financial capital) rather than entrepreneurship and (2) the city context of Meizhou is relatively unsupportive of its entrepreneurship contributing to the GDP, in comparison with that of Zhaoqing and Shantou. This study adds to the literature by empirically assessing and comparing three cities’ entrepreneurship development in China; it also informs scholars and practitioners of the moderation effect of the city context.

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Measuring entrepreneurship: Type, motivation, and growth

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Does FDI promote entrepreneurial activities? A meta-analysis

Does FDI promote entrepreneurial activities? A meta-analysis

Reflecting on the Entrepreneurship Paradox in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth within a City

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