Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy: Volume 6 Issue 1

Income inequality: How efforts to reduce it can undermine motivation – and the pursuit of excellence

Robert Alan Baron

The purpose of this paper is to explain why (based on an extensive body of research findings) efforts to reduce income inequality may have negative effects on motivation and the…

The entrepreneurial rent: the value of and compensation for entrepreneurship

Magnus Henrekson, Mikael Stenkula

The purpose of this paper is to show that entrepreneurship can be fruitfully analyzed by positing that entrepreneurs are searching for rates of return exceeding the risk-adjusted…

Institutional quality and innovation: some cross-country evidence

Christopher John Boudreaux

The purpose of this paper is to examine the cross-country variation in innovation and propose that it can be explained by the presence of market institutions using the Global…

Exploring the case of The White Moustache: Entrepreneurship and regulatory capture in the milk products industry

Ryan M. Yonk, Kayla Harris, R. Chistopher Martin, Barrett Anderson

Small and emerging business failure rates are high for numerous reasons. Government regulation has been cited as a contributing factor, yet literature documenting the actual…

Privatization and corporate entrepreneurship in telecommunication companies

Behrouz Zarei, Flora Amanati, Kasra Amanati

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of privatization on corporate entrepreneurship in Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI). The study examines the five…

Spillovers from public entrepreneurship: a case study

Caleb Fuller, Dylan DelliSanti

Existing scholarship indicates that more research is needed to explore beneficial spillovers from public entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in that…

Building the African economy: Is President Obama’s entrepreneurial public management program sustainable in Africa?

Ademola A. Adenle

The purpose of this paper is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the President Obama Youth African Leadership Initiative (YALI) program with evidence from experts and other…

Failure is an option: the entrepreneurial governance framework

John J. Carroll

It has been more than 20 years since the “Reinventing Government” movement swept through the American public sector. Over time, the tenets of public entrepreneurship and new…

Income-expenditure elasticities of less-healthy consumption goods

Adam Hoffer, Rejeana Gvillo, William Shughart, Michael Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to identify how consumption of 12 goods – alcohol, cigarettes, fast food, items sold at vending machines, purchases of food away from home, cookies…