Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship
DEFINING AND MEASURING ENTREPRENEURSHIP
by Jens Iversen (Centre for Economic and Business Research & University of Aarhus), Rasmus Jørgensen (Centre for Economic and Business Research & University of Copenhagen) & Nikolaj Malchow-Møller (Centre for Economic and Business Research & University of Southern Denmark)
Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship reviews the most common concepts of entrepreneurship from the theoretical economics literature, identifying common elements and pointing to important differences. The purpose is to compare these theoretical ideas of entrepreneurship with the measures used in empirical country-level studies. Since a coherent or unifying definition of entrepreneurship has not emerged, the authors explain that it is important to be precise about the relationship between the different theoretical aspects of entrepreneurship and the empirical measures. This is revealed by comparing entrepreneurial activity across OECD countries using measures that reflect different theoretical aspects. Based on various data sources, the relative ranking of countries is very sensitive to the empirical measure used.
Published by Now Publishers and marketed by World Scientific
Contents:
- Introduction
- Defining Entrepreneurship
- Measuring Entrepreneurship
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Comparisons and Discussion
- Conclusions
- References
- Appendix
Readership: Academic, students and faculty in entrepreneurship and management.
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