Laboratoire ENTREPRENEURIAT & STRATEGIES Workshop David AUDRETSCH, Editor in Chief Small Business Economics Friday, September, 29th, 2021 – 10:00 –13:00 - Room 327 Lascrosses Building Title: Democracy and Entrepreneurship; Theory and Practice Abstract:...
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Laboratoire ENTREPRENEURIAT & STRATEGIES Workshop David AUDRETSCH, Editor in Chief Small Business Economics Friday, September, 29th, 2021 – 10:00 –13:00 - Room 327 Lascrosses Building Title: Democracy and Entrepreneurship; Theory and Practice Abstract: Entrepreneurship has been claimed to matter and deserve priority because it has been linked to some of the most compelling economic and social issues of our time. This paper suggests that entrepreneurship is also inextricably linked to a fundamental value common among the western developed economies, democracy. Three distinct contexts are examined to link democracy to entrepreneurship, two historical and one contemporary. The first is National Socialism in Germany, which emerged by suppressing both entrepreneurship and democracy. The second is the rise of the Trusts, or dominant large corporations and concomitant decline of small business in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Finally, both measurement and perception
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