... by accounting for several other factors including the level of financial development, the business environment and governance and the quality of institutions. Design/methodology/approach – To investigate the impact of entrepreneurship on economic development, the paper uses data available from the World...

.../value The paper provides a framework for testing the factors that differentiate growing new ventures during various stages of entrepreneurship. Business formation Business development Entrepreneurialism Business environment 1. rapid growth, i.e. more than doubling sales turnover (over...

... Business environment Individual behaviour Kosova The interest on factors influencing entrepreneurial activity of population has been growing among both, academics and policy makers. This growing interest was primarily due to a broad consensus in the academic literature that business start‐ups...

... The business environment in Hong Kong has been considered as being favourable for the development of entrepreneurship (Siu and Martin, 1992 ; Tam and Redding, 1993 ; Yu, 2000), and therefore it has nurtured a large number of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and their owner/managers, who exhibit some...