Visions of entrepreneurship policy

Lucas, David S.; Fuller, Caleb S.; Piano, Ennio E.; Coyne, Christopher J.

doi:10.1108/jepp-d-18-00034

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“…Devolving disaster recovery activity to the community is, arguably, another way of saying that government should restrict their own activities or restrain from policy interventions. This is consistent with other studies on entrepreneurship and public policy, such as Lucas et al (2018), and may help remedy public deficits and other political challenges (Kucher, 2012).…”

Section: Implications For Public Policysupporting

confidence: 91%

Commercial social spaces in the post-disaster context

Haeffele-Balch¹,

Craig²

2020

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PurposeThis paper argues that commercial entrepreneurial activities have social implications and can provide needed social spaces during the disaster recovery process, and that viewing commercial enterprises as socially valuable has implications for post-disaster public policy.Design/methodology/approachThis paper discusses themes and concepts developed through in-depth interviews conducted in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas, after Hurricane Katrina. Particular case studies of the personal experiences of communities that recovered after Hurricane Katrina are utilized to highlight how commercial entrepreneurship creates and maintains social spaces where community members can share resources and connect during the recovery process.FindingsEntrepreneurs need not have a specific social mission in order to make social contributions, and commercial entrepreneurship should create and maintain social spaces that are important for community recovery after disasters.Practical implicationsThe social spaces that commercial entrepreneurs facilitate should be considered when designing and implementing public policy in the post-disaster context. Policies can often hinder recovery, and policymakers should instead establish clear regulatory regimes and allow for greater space for entrepreneurs to act.Originality/valueThis paper highlights the role entrepreneurs play in advancing social goals and purposes after disasters, specifically how commercial entrepreneurs can create and maintain social spaces where community members gather to discuss their challenges and strategies for disaster recovery. It highlights the extra-economic role of commercial entrepreneurs and discusses the implications for public policy based on this broadened conception of entrepreneurship.

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Section: Implications For Public Policysupporting

confidence: 91%

Commercial social spaces in the post-disaster context

Haeffele-Balch¹,

Craig²

2020

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“…Policy typically includes the organising and mobilisation or the provision of resources and can be considered an output in the form of providing direct benefits, the provision of services to the public or a particular service provided by government (Lucas et al , 2018). Entrepreneurship policy scholars seem to have reached a general consensus that since “sources of market failure [are] a pervasive phenomenon,” the case for government intervention is valid particularly “in areas such as venture capital markets, knowledge commercialization, R&D and skill-upgrading efforts, and clustering” (Audretsch et al , 2007, p. 9).…”

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confidence: 99%

Intersections between policy and institutions: a focus on enterprise growth in Swaziland

Urban

Dlamini

2020

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PurposePublic policy supported by effective institutions is one of the key strategies for promoting entrepreneurial activities. However, the problem is that an enabling environment that supports entrepreneurship is often lacking in several African countries. The aim of this article is to deepen our understanding of the mix of policy and institutional factors which create an enabling environment for enterprise growth in Swaziland.Design/methodology/approachPrimary data are sourced from 200 enterprises across Swaziland's main regions and hypotheses are statistically tested using correlational and regression analyses.FindingsResults show that a mix of different institutional and state support factors such as access to markets, education and training, access to finance, contract enforcement, regulations and business support programmes all have a significant and positive impact on enterprise growth.Research limitations/implicationsStudy implications relate to the need for specific and targeted policy interventions required to foster an enabling environment in order to stimulate enterprise growth in Swaziland.Originality/valueEmpirical investigations on enterprise growth in under-researched developing market contexts, such as Swaziland, are important since in many developing and emerging markets small enterprises are at the epicentre of the economy Moreover, this study adds to the stream of research highlighting that the application of institutional theory provides a detailed theoretical understanding of the actors and the process by which enterprise policy is formulated.

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“…As Hölzl (2010, p. 188) summarises, "different conceptions and definitions of entrepreneurship lead to different entrepreneurship policies". In fact, while it is commonly accepted that public policy can influence entrepreneurship (Acs and Szerb, 2007;Verheul et al, 2002;Wennekers and Thurik, 1999), the need of a broad and horizontal orientation (Hölzl, 2010) and there is no one-size-fits-all strategy to stimulate entrepreneurial activity (Minniti, 2008), debates have appeared about almost everything else related to entrepreneurship and policy initiatives at all levels of governance (Lucas et al, 2018;O'Connor, 2013;Stam, 2014).…”

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An academic perspective on the entrepreneurship policy agenda: themes, geographies and evolution

Arenal

Feijóo

Moreno

et al. 2019

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Purpose Academic research into entrepreneurship policy is particularly interesting due to the increasing relevance of the topic and since knowledge about the evolution of themes in this field is still rather limited. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the key concepts, topics, trends and shifts that have shaped the entrepreneurship policy research agenda during the period 1990–2016. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses text mining techniques, cluster analysis and complementary bibliographic data to examine the evolution of a corpus of 1,048 academic papers focused on entrepreneurship-related policies and published during the period 1990–2016 in ten relevant journals. In particular, the paper follows a standard text mining workflow: first, as text is unstructured, content requires a set of pre-processing tasks and then a stemming process. Then, the paper examines the most repeated concepts within the corpus, considering the whole period 1990–2016 and also in five-year terms. Finally, the paper conducts a k-means clustering to divide the collection of documents into coherent groups with similar content. The analyses in the paper also include geographical particularities considering three regional sub-corpora, distinguishing those articles authored in the European Union (EU), the USA and South and Eastern Asia, respectively. Findings Results of the analysis show that inclusion, employment and regulation-related papers have largely dominated the research in the field, evolving from an initial classical approach to the relationship between entrepreneurship and employment to a wider, multidisciplinary perspective, including the relevance of management, geographies and narrower topics such as agglomeration economics or internationalisation instead of the previous generic sectorial approaches. The text mining analysis also reveals how entrepreneurship policy research has gained increasing attention and has become both more open, with a growing cooperation among researchers from different affiliations, and more sophisticated, with concepts and themes that moved the research agenda forward, closer to the priorities of policy implementation. Research limitations/implications The paper identifies main trends and research gaps in the field of entrepreneurship policy providing actionable knowledge by presenting the spectrum of both over-explored and understudied research themes in the field. In practical terms the results of the text mining analysis can be interpreted as a compass to navigate the entrepreneurship policy research agenda. Practical implications The paper presents the heterogeneity of topics under research in the field, reinforcing the concept of entrepreneurship as a multidisciplinary and dynamic domain. Therefore, the definition and adoption of a certain policy agenda in entrepreneurship should consider multiple aspects (needs, objectives, stakeholders, expected outputs, etc.) to be comprehensive and aligned with its complexity. In addition, the paper shows how text mining techniques could be used to map the research activity in a particular field, contributing to the challenge of linking research and policy. Originality/value The exploratory nature of text mining allows us to obtain new knowledge and reveals hidden patterns from large quantities of documents/text data, representing an opportunity to complement other qualitative reviews. In this sense, the main value of this paper is not to advise on the future configuration of entrepreneurship policy as a research topic, but to unwrap the past by unveiling how key themes of the entrepreneurship policy research agenda have emerged, evolved and/or declined over time as a foundation on which to build further developments.

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Visions of entrepreneurship policy

Cited by 36 publications

References 54 publications

Commercial social spaces in the post-disaster context

Commercial social spaces in the post-disaster context

Intersections between policy and institutions: a focus on enterprise growth in Swaziland

An academic perspective on the entrepreneurship policy agenda: themes, geographies and evolution

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