The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship: Characteristics of entrepreneurs and the environment for entrepreneurship

By Simon C. Parker. 2004

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SMEs in sustainable development: Their role in poverty reduction and employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “Parker (2004) affirms that governments all over the world, but particularly SSA governments, should embrace its benefits and design policies to promote its implementation.”
Implications of customer and entrepreneurial orientations for SME growth (2013, background): “Understanding the factors behind growth has a broad economic and policy relevance, especially because growth-oriented enterprises are an important source of job creation and revenue generation in market economies (Parker, 2004; Valliere, 2006).”
Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship (2013, background): “A large literature, reviewed by Parker (2009), focuses on the self-employed.”
Gender gap in latent and nascent entrepreneurship: driven by competitiveness (2013, background): “Following Rauch and Frese (2007), we argue that personality traits that can be particularly matched to the task of running a business predispose men and women to entrepreneurship.”
The impact of a necessity-based start-up on subsequent entrepreneurial satisfaction (2010, background): “The resulting dissatisfaction may eventually lead to negative consequences such as high levels of stress and poor health (Parker, 2004).”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, background): “This definition of transition into self-employment is consistent with an extensive literature (e.g., Amit, Muller, & Cockburn, 1995; Burke, FitzRoy, & Nolan, 2002; Evans & Leighton, 1989; Parker, 2004; Taylor, 1996; Van Praag & Cramer, 2001).”
Entrepreneurship as a non-profit-seeking activity (2009, unknown): “... observers have equated it with business ownership, others have stressed the innovative character of the activity, arguing, for example, that managers introducing new products, business processes or organizational structures should also be seen as entrepreneurs, whereas business owners not engagi”
Entrepreneurial aspiration and transition into self-employment: evidence from British longitudinal data (2007, background): “A largely economic literature focuses on the constraints and opportunities offered by the external environment (see Le (1999) and Parker (2004) for surveys).”
The Multiple Effects of Business Planning on New Venture Performance (2010, background): “The widespread use of employment growth as a measure of venture performance has been well documented (see Johnson, 2007; Parker, 2004).”
Institutions, Latent Entrepreneurship, and Self–Employment: An International Comparison (2012, background): “If they are negative, it may reflect the lower input costs in nonmetropolitan areas (Parker, 2004).”