The Divide between Subsistence and Transformational Entrepreneurship

By Antoinette Schoar. Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Accounting

1. Maksim Belitski
2. David B. Audretsch
3. Farzana Chowdhury
4. O. Bandiera
5. Imran Rasul
6. Michael Leatherbee
7. Juanita González-Uribe
8. Robin Burgess

In Business and International Management

1. Michael Leatherbee
2. Farzana Chowdhury
3. Juanita González-Uribe
4. Michael Peters
5. Maksim Belitski
6. David B. Audretsch
7. G. Mansuri
8. X. Giné

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Maksim Belitski
2. David B. Audretsch
3. Farzana Chowdhury
4. Michael Leatherbee
5. Juanita González-Uribe
6. Michael Peters
7. Imran Rasul
8. G. Mansuri

Citations in the corpus

• Heterogeneous Markups, Growth, and Endogenous Misallocation (2020, background): “Interestingly, they account for an even smaller 18There is mounting evidence for the importance of “stagnant” entrepreneurs in developing economics; see, for example, Schoar (2010), Hurst and Pugsley (2012), and Akcigit et al. (2015).”
• The Effects of Business Accelerators on Venture Performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile (2017, background): “This conclusion is consistent with recent work showing that the impact of consulting services for nontransformational ventures is much larger than simply improving access to capital (cf. Bruhn, Karlan, and Schoar 2010).”
• Money or ideas ? a field experiment on constraints to entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan (2014, background): “They are therefore “subsistence” entrepreneurs, that is, individuals that engage in self- employed activities to survive and perhaps provide employment to family members (Schoar, 2010; Woodruff, 2006).”
• Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor? (2013, background): “This is distinct from business start-ups in manufacturing and services which have the potential to grow to a signi cant size [Schoar 2009].”
• Institutions and Entrepreneurship Quality (2018, background): “These low-quality/subsistence entrepreneurship activities, often (Schoar, 2010) motivated by”
• Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, unknown): “Schoar (2010) further describes this partition in a review of the entrepreneurship and development literature.”
• Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, unknown): “Numerous studies have documented that the micro- and even small enterprises of developing countries tend to be a means of subsistence for the poor (Schoar 2010).”