Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress

By R. Sobel, J. Clark, Dwight R. Lee. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Institutions, Latent Entrepreneurship, and Self–Employment: An International Comparison (2012, background): “Sobel, Clark, and Lee (2007) find a strong positive relationship between the EFW and total entrepreneurial activities within OECD countries.”
The institutions of economic freedom and entrepreneurship: evidence from panel data (2008, background): “ Sobel et al. (2007) studied the relationship between the entrepreneurship index provided by GEM for 2002 for 21 OECD countries and the aggregate economic freedom index and find a strong relationship.”
Capital is not enough: opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions (2018, unknown): “2013; Powell and Weber 2013), total early-stage entrepreneurship (Bjørnskov and Foss 2008, 2013, 2016; Boudreaux 2014; Gohmann et al. 2008; Kreft and Sobel 2005; McMullen et al. 2008; Sobel 2008; Sobel et al. 2007; Sobel and Hall 2008), and innovation (Boudreaux 2017; Simón-Moya et al.”
Foreign direct investment, institutional quality, economic freedom and entrepreneurship in emerging markets (2014, unknown): “subject (Bjørnskov and Foss, 2008; Sobel et al., 2007) but only one of them reviews data over the course of several years (Nyström, 2008) and none focuses on emerging markets.”
Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory (2015, background): “The ‘innovation’ or ‘Schumpeterian’ approach to economic growth suggests that markets tend towards disequilibrium as entrepreneurs contribute to the market’s process of ‘creative destruction’, with new innovations replacing old technologies (Schumpeter 1934; Sobel et al. 2007).”
Regulating away competition: the effect of regulation on entrepreneurship and employment (2017, unknown): “Sobel et al. (2007) use the total entrepreneurial activity index from the Kauffman Center’s Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to represent a general measure of entrepreneurial activity.”
How economic freedom affects opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in the OECD countries (2017, methodology): “First, focusing on international studies using entrepreneurship indicators provided by GEM, Sobel, Clark, and Lee (2007) conduct a cross-sectional study for 22 OECD countries in 2002 by using the EFI provided by the Fraser Institute.”
Institutional polycentrism, entrepreneurs' social networks, and new venture growth (2013, unknown): “Each type of weak and inefficient institution generates forms of institutional uncertainty and ambiguity, such as uncertainty regarding access to financial resources or as to ability to transact efficiently (Feldmann, 2007; Sobel, Clark, & Lee, 2007).”