... relationship between risk-driven entrepreneurial actions and sustainable development goals 1 and 2. Findings Our empirical results confirm the presence of a specific threshold above which risk-oriented entrepreneurial actions proactively tackle poverty and hunger issues. The results also show...

... 29 07 2019 06 12 2019 06 12 2019 Microfinance Entrepreneurial action Institutional quality E02 G21 O17 O43 P42 Microfinance was once perceived as the “next big thing” within policy and academic circles to be an effective way of alleviating poverty through...

... of the observations found in the WVS. Pál Czeglédi can be contacted at: czegledi.pal@econ.unideb.hu 23 10 2016 20 01 2017 30 01 2017 30 01 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Freedom Entrepreneurial action...

... 04 05 2017 04 05 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Freedom Entrepreneurial action Regulatory policy M13 O15 Entrepreneurship is one of the driving forces of economic growth in a country (Reynolds...

... and alert agents tend to discover new opportunities previously unknown to them. Therefore, entrepreneurial action is what causes markets to tend toward an equilibrium price. In this section, we provide a conceptual overview of the Littlechild and Owen’s model. The model assumes a homogeneous commodity...

...” (p. 184). Dr John J. Carroll can be contacted at: jc1866@nova.edu 08 04 2016 03 11 2016 04 11 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Governance Decision making Entrepreneurial action Risk...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Entrepreneurial action School reform Use of knowledge J33 I28 L21 This paper considers school reform from an entrepreneurship perspective and examines and critiques much of the research on schools from this viewpoint. An important aspect...

... those funds. Section 5 concludes with the implications of the analysis. Christopher J. Coyne can be contacted at: ccoyne3@gmu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Rent seeking Firm performance Entrepreneurial action Political entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial opportunity...

... Redford can be contacted at: amredford@email.wcu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Rent seeking Innovation Entrepreneurial action Regulatory policy Political entrepreneurship The essential problem of the historian of entrepreneurship is that of interpreting...

..., instead of economic development through the operations of smoothly operating markets. Section 5 briefly concludes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Development Economic growth Case study Economic theory Entrepreneurial action Development policy William Baumol published...

... levels, the authors find that entrepreneurs launch more businesses in states with higher predicted corruption. Originality/value – To the knowledge, no one has previously tested the impact of expected corruption on entrepreneurial activity. Start-ups Entrepreneurial action Corruption...

... comparisons: the researcher can detect differences in particular consumption categories in which there is no overlap with business expenditures – housing expenditures, vacations, money spent on clothing, etc. Entrepreneurs Self-employment Tax policy Entrepreneurial action Entrepreneurial opportunity...

... form: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United States of America State Economic growth Entrepreneurialism Entrepreneurial action Growth Local policy Sub‐national government Sub‐national policy Entrepreneurship Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity Economic freedom...

... Economic growth Entrepreneurial action Globalization International trade There is widespread consensus among economists regarding the net economic benefits of trade openness. As Dollar and Kraay (2004) note, “Openness to international trade accelerates development: this is one of the most...