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The Quality Of Jobs Created By Entrepreneurs, Adam Seth Litwin, Philip Phan

Adam Seth Litwin

Few dare to challenge the conventional wisdom that small business is the engine of job creation. Indeed, in the United States, the image of the small business owner left largely unfettered to create novel products and services sits on the same cultural plane as baseball and apple pie, and one would be hard-pressed to find a policymaker who would openly question the wisdom that most new jobs arise either directly or indirectly from these small businesses. This near religious belief in the small business owner as job creator yields a steady stream of policies offering tax relief to small businesses, …

Quality Over Quantity: Reexamining The Link Between Entrepreneurship And Job Creation, Adam Seth Litwin, Philip Phan

Adam Seth Litwin

Although much has been written about the quantity of jobs created by entrepreneurs, scholars have yet to examine the quality of these jobs. In this article, the authors begin to address this important issue by examining nearly 5,000 businesses that began operations in 2004. They investigate the extent to which nascent employers provide what many think of as quality jobs—those offering health care coverage and a retirement plan. The authors find that because of small scale, constrained resources, and protection from institutional pressures, start-up companies do not provide their employees with either of these proxies for job quality, and their …

Family Firms And Entrepreneurship: Contradiction Or Synonym?, Sascha Kraus, Justin Craig, Clay Dibrell, Stefan Mark

Justin B. Craig

Extract: This Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (JSBE) Special Issue was motivated by increasing intellectual curiosity from within the entrepreneurship academic community to study entrepreneurial phenomenon in a family business context. Family enterprises dominate the commercial landscape in all economies, and interest in the unique challenges facing this business genre is growing. In many family firms, ownership and management are maintained across several generations, and a key challenge for long-term survival is to sustain the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation of entrepreneurs (Littunen and Hyrsky, 2000). All firms regularly need to renew their way of doing business in …

Western Perspectives On Entrepreneurship And Their Sensitivity In The Context Of Asian Cultures, Helen Gamage, Ananda Wickramasinghe

Ananda Wickramasinghe

This paper explores western perspectives and discursive practices rooted in entrepreneurship, and argue their limited applicability in non-western cultures. It appears that the western entrepreneurship paradigm does not draw on the deep-rooted settings in society and culture of many developing countries. As a result, indigenous entrepreneurial realities are not well understood. The methods employed to transform western ideologies into other cultural settings were ineffective as they were not developed to be flexible to contextual variations. The different disciplinary perspectives and the reductionist approach of the western paradigm resulted in limited returns to entrepreneurship programmes since one disciplinary perspective can never …

Mutiny And Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons From The Age Of Discovery, Patrick Murphy

Patrick J. Murphy

No abstract provided.

Planned Behavior Entrepreneurship And Intention To Create A New Venture Among Young Graduates, H. Mushtaq Ahmad, G. S K. Niazi, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Kashif Ur Rehman, Rauf I. Azam

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

Business Librarianship And Entrepreneurship Outreach, Karen Macdonald, Hal Kirkwood

Hal P Kirkwood Jr

No abstract provided.

Assessing Entrepreneurship: Business Development Concerns And Perceptions Of Risk Inentrepreneurs In The U.S. And Italy, R. Tindale

R. Scott Tindale