Economic Freedom and the Motivation to Engage in Entrepreneurial Action

By Jeffery S. McMullen, D. R. Bagby, L. Palich. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Capital Is Not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies (2012, background): “Greater opportunities in the labour markets and stronger social safety nets in developed nations make it less likely that entrepreneurs will start businesses out of necessity (McMullen et al., 2008).”
Engagement in entrepreneurship in emerging economies: Interactive effects of individual-level factors and institutional conditions (2016, background): “This variable indicates the respondent’s actual involvement in opportunity-driven, early-stage entrepreneurial activity (McMullen et al., 2008). score based on these three variables (cf. MacKenzie, Podsakoff, & Podsakoff, 2011).”
Foreign direct investment, institutional quality, economic freedom and entrepreneurship in emerging markets (2014, neutral): “The findings in McMullen, Bagby, and Palich (2008) indicate tax hikes have a direct impact upon entrepreneurial activity, as potential entrepreneurs weigh the risks in setting up a business and regard this as a further impediment.”
How Different Formal Institutions Affect Opportunity and Necessity Entrepreneurship (2015, result): “Our findings on opportunity entrepreneurship slightly difer from those obtained by Valdez and Richardson (2013) nd McMullen et al. (2008), given that they establish”
Exploring country-level institutional arrangements on the rate and type of entrepreneurial activity (2013, positive): “Scott's (1995) three pillars – regulative, cognitive, and normative institutions – provide the stability and incentives that promote or inhibit social behavior in an economy.”
Capital is not enough: opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions (2018, positive): “In that sense, OME is closely related to the Schumpeterian vision of entrepreneurship that encourages innovation and economic prosperity (McMullen et al. 2008) with prior research linking OME to high growth aspirations and subsequent business growth (Reynolds et al.”
Institutional Environment and Entrepreneurial Cognitions: A Comparative Business Systems Perspective (2010, background): “Accordingly, McMullen, Bagby, and Palich (2008) investigated the relationship between country-level economic freedom and engagement in entrepreneurial action and found that entrepreneurship is positively related to labor freedom and that opportunity-motivated entrepreneurial activity in particular,…”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “Inefficient institutions create high transaction costs, the reduction of which can constitute an opportunity for enhanced market efficiency or the creation of entirely new markets (Dean & McMullen, 2002, 2007; Elkington & Hartigan, 2008; McMullen et al., 2008).”
Institutions, Latent Entrepreneurship, and Self–Employment: An International Comparison (2012, background): “Likewise, McMullen, Bagby, and Palich (2008) find that the influence of the various subcategories of the EFW index differs depending on whether entrepreneurs are opportunity-motivated or necessity-motivated.”
Taxes, corruption, and entry (2016, neutral): “Higher scores on these measures reflect higher corruption and lower scores reflect lower corruption (Aidis et al. 2012; McMullen et al. 2008).”