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Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial framework conditions

Author: Dave Valliere

Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Issue 1/2010

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This report is an empirical examination of entrepreneurial framework conditions—the environmental conditions that encourage and support entrepreneurial activity at the national level. In particular, it attempts to validate the framework conditions employed in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a multi-year, multinational study of entrepreneurial activity widely used in entrepreneurship research. The validity of the GEM entrepreneurial framework conditions is examined using empirical analysis of data drawn from Global Competitiveness Report measures for 53 countries over 4 years. The data suggest an alternative conceptualization of entrepreneurial framework conditions: commercial munificence, technology openness, regulatory openness, and technology influx. These findings have implications for theorists and policy makers interested in antecedents to entrepreneurially based economic growth.

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Title: Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial framework conditions
Author: Dave Valliere
Publication date: 01-03-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Issue 1/2010
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Electronic ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-008-0077-0

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