Entrepreneurship in a Regional Context: Historical Roots, Recent Developments and Future Challenges
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Fritsch M. and Storey D. J. Entrepreneurship in a regional context: historical roots, recent developments and future challenges, Regional Studies. This paper reviews research on regional new business formation published in four special issues of Regional Studies over a period of 30 years. It is observed that over those decades there has been a heightened recognition of the role of both formal institutions and ‘soft’ factors such as social capital and a culture of entrepreneurship. However, the core challenge is to explain why, in several high-income countries, despite these claimed cultural changes, the relative position of regions with regard to new business formation exhibits little or no variation over long periods of time.
Source: Regional Studies
Authors: Michael Fritsch, David J. Storey
Institutions: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, University of Sussex
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2129787633