Scholars who study entrepreneurship have lent great value by exploring the factors that
explain how entrepreneurs create new businesses and thus, how societies and economies …

This paper explores the institutional factors that encourage opportunity entrepreneurship in
order to achieve higher rates of economic growth. We suggest that institutions may not have …

The purpose of this article is to examine the influence of institutional dimensions (regulative,
normative and cultural-cognitive) on the probability of becoming an entrepreneur. The main …

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant
work ethic. We provide an alternative theory: Protestant economies prospered because …

Abstract The Protestant Reformation is one of the defining events of the last millennium.
Nearly 500 years after the Reformation, its causes and consequences have seen a renewed …

Abstract Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should
have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman …

One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can
we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a …

Evidence on Weber's original thesis on a Protestant work ethic is ambiguous and relies on
questionable measures of work attitudes. We test the relation between Protestantism and …

Using a dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century,
this article investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state …

The sociology of entrepreneurship is a blossoming field of research, but its scholarly
contribution has been critiqued for its lack of coherence and intellectual distance from the …