Causation and effectuation processes: A validation study

GN Chandler, DR DeTienne, A McKelvie… - Journal of business …, 2011 - Elsevier
We develop and validate measures of causation and effectuation approaches to new
venture creation and test our measures with two samples of entrepreneurs in young firms …

The entrepreneurship of resource-based theory

SA Alvarez, LW Busenitz - Journal of management, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the relationship between resource-based theory and entrepreneurship
and develops insights that advance the boundaries of resource-based theory and begin to …

The myth of the rational voter: why democracies choose bad policies-new edition

B Caplan - The myth of the rational voter, 2011 - degruyter.com
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or
rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases …

Resources, capabilities and entrepreneurial perceptions

YY Kor, JT Mahoney, SC Michael - Journal of management …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
abstract We review and develop a subjectivist theory of entrepreneurship that focuses on
individuals, their knowledge, resources and skills, and the processes of discovery and …

Decisions, actions, and performance: do novice, serial, and portfolio entrepreneurs differ?

P Westhead, D Ucbasaran… - Journal of small business …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A conceptual framework is extended to take into account differences between inexperienced
novice entrepreneurs (that is, individuals with no prior private business ownership …

Serendipity in entrepreneurship

N Dew - Organization studies, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper addresses the concept of serendipity in entrepreneurship, defined as search
leading to unintended discovery. It conceptually delineates serendipity, showing how it is …

Habitual entrepreneurs

D Ucbasaran - 2006 - elgaronline.com
This is an excellent book. The conceptual framework and empirical results are presented in
a most readable form. The reader is also provided with a comprehensive discussion of the …

Praxeology, entrepreneurship and the market process: A review of Kirzner's contribution

K Jakee, H Spong - Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2003 - cambridge.org
It is surely Israel M. Kirzner who has promoted the role of the entrepreneur more than any
other author in the second half of the twentieth century. His description of the market process …

Kaldor-Hicks efficiency and the problem of central planning

EP Stringham - Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Supporters of Kaldor-Hicks believe it useful to have a quantitative measure to
assess the efficiency of different situations. Although it may appear convenient to be able to …

[PDF][PDF] Economic science and neoclassicism

JG Hülsmann - Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 1999 - cdn.mises.org
For more than forty years, economists have routinely rejected the postulate that economic
theory should be realistic. Ever since Milton Friedman (1953) sketchily outlined a positivistic …