Entrepreneurship Dives

This episode talks about the relationship between entrepreneurs' campaign launching decisions across different national context, with varying regulatory characteristics.

There exists little evidence on how institutional support and digitalization jointly shape entrepreneurial behavior during crises. This episode discusses the following question: how do government support mechanisms and digital technologies influence entrepreneurship amid economic disruption? There is a particular focus on chancer entrepreneurs—individuals who leverage government aid and digi...

Entrepreneurship has been highlighted as a powerful engine for economic growth. Yet, countries such as Colombia have created perverse incentives for the emergence of destructive entrepreneurship, which negatively affects growth. Using a two-step approach in Colombian regions, we observe whether formal and informal institutions’ incentives condition the negative association between new coca c...

Latin American countries exhibit significant levels of informal economic activity and a low degree of trade openness. Yet, little is known about the effect of these institutional characteristics on the performance of SMEs when venturing abroad to explore international markets. Based on an institutional voids approach, we explore the effects of unfair competition, particularly related to informalit...

This research paper explores the relationship between a nation's economic development level and its social entrepreneurial activity. It is investigated whether social ventures are more likely to arise in less developed countries with weak institutions or in developed nations with stronger support systems. By analyzing data from numerous global datasets across 59 countries, the study identifies how...