...Fouzia Awan Purpose This study examines the dynamic impact of legal system and property rights (LSPR) institutions on investment and entrepreneurial activity across countries with varying income levels. By analyzing how institutional improvements influence economic behavior over time...

... interest in post-crises responses. However, studies that compare the relative responses to external shocks and the outcomes for SMEs operating in different institutional settings are limited. We examine the relative degrees of success European and African SMEs experienced in avoiding the worst consequences...

... a shame (relationship-based) or guilt (rules-based) culture. This is because, the institutions, or rules of the game, that develop based on the culture will provide the framework for the entrepreneur as they grow and expand in fulfilling their ambitions and will either facilitate the entrepreneur...

...Recai Coşkun; Liridon Kryeziu; Besnik A. Krasniqi Purpose Kosovo has experienced a radical shift from a centrally planned economy to a market economy and built institutions from scratch. During the institutional building process, due to inconsistencies in institutional reforms, firms faced several...

...Fernando Antonio Monteiro Christoph D’Andrea Purpose The study aims to demonstrate how different arrangements and characteristics of institutions can generate or mitigate uncertainty thereby facilitating or hampering the possibilities of entrepreneurial action. Design/methodology/approach...

...Lucas Pereira de Mello; Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de Moraes; Bruno Brandão Fischer Purpose Entrepreneurship can be understood as a systemic phenomenon, thus relying on sets of influential factors associated with socioeconomic contexts. Institutional conditions play a pivotal role...

... immigrants and disfavor low-skilled immigrants. In particular, the authors examine how length of stay in the host country and host country institutions impact immigrant self-employment, especially low-skilled immigrant self-employment. The authors also point out unintended consequences of low-skilled...

...Fadil Sahiti Purpose This paper investigates institutional quality and its impact on entrepreneurship activities in a less-developed economy. The unifying characteristic of government policies in less-developed contexts is that, often, the primary focus of policy makers is not entrepreneurs...

...Boris Urban; Zethu Dlamini Purpose Public policy supported by effective institutions is one of the key strategies for promoting entrepreneurial activities. However, the problem is that an enabling environment that supports entrepreneurship is often lacking in several African countries. The aim...

...Chris Berg; Sinclair Davidson; Jason Potts Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the long-run economic structure and economic policy consequences of wide-spread blockchain adoption. Design/methodology/approach The approach uses institutional, organisational and evolutionary economic...

...Thanti Mthanti; Kalu Ojah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish a more robust empirical support for the long established postulation by Adam Smith and Joseph Schumpeter that human capital and institutions enable Schumpeterian entrepreneurship, which, in turn, facilitates economic...

...Tyler Watts; Molly Woodruff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine differences in property institutions in the USA and India and their effects on agricultural productivity. Design/methodology/approach This paper undertakes a case study of industrial organization of agriculture...

...Christopher John Boudreaux Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the cross-country variation in innovation and propose that it can be explained by the presence of market institutions using the Global Innovation Index. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses ordinary least squares...

...Dr Alexandre Padilla; Niklas Elert; Magnus Henrekson; Joakim Wernberg Purpose – Evasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks. Since such evasions rarely go unnoticed, they usually lead to responses from lawmakers and regulators. The paper...

... is limited by the examination of self-employment only and a constant institutional structure across all states, only varying across time for the entire USA. In addition, an empirical study looking at how the value of healthcare benefits have changed over time – vs the sole question in this study that depends...

... found in the research literature, using the same estimator within a consistent model that included political institutions, proxied by the Economic Freedom of North America index. Like many exemplars in the literature, the authors’ focus was on the US states. Design/methodology/approach The authors...

... and disseminate quality research about the vital relationships among institutions, entrepreneurship and economic outcomes. JEPP 's aim is to improve the quality of scholarly and public discourse about entrepreneurship and development policies. In general, JEPP seeks high‐quality articles...