International Review of Entrepreneurship: Recent submissions
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Organising Freelancers: A Hard Case or a New Opportunity?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)Freelance workers present a special challenge in terms of collective labour organisation. As an individualistic and highly dispersed workforce, they are both difficult to recruit and represent. This paper explores the ... -
What's in a name? The value of 'Entrepreneurs' compared to 'Self-Employed'...but what about 'Freelancing' or 'IPro'?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)This paper is concerned with those individuals who do not fit easily or comfortably into traditional notions of employment. Variously described as 'self-employed', 'sole traders', 'own account workers,' 'freelancers,' ... -
Independent Professionals: Legal Issues and Challenges
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)Although Independent Professionals (IPros) have until recently been generally neglected by the academic community, including by specialists in both management and entrepreneurism, IPros cannot avoid being subject to key ... -
The Economic Value of Different Types of Solo Self-Employed: A Review
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)We review the literature on solo self-employment focusing on prevalence, characteristics and economic contributions. Besides providing explanations for the upward trend in solo self-employment observed in many Western ... -
Entrepreneurs, IPros and the Talent Eco-System
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)With independent professionals and budding entrepreneurs now forming the fastest growing proportion of the workforce, large corporations are losing out on the best talent. This article, based on research conducted for ... -
Female Solo Self-Employment - Features of Gendered Entrepreneurship
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)This paper focuses on the features of female entrepreneurship; mainly the solo self-employed. Based on a brief review of the existing literature we identify some major lines of argumentation, which treat female self-employment ... -
Job Quality and Self-Employment: Is it (Still) Better to Work for Yourself?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)There has been a long-standing debate about whether self-employment represents 'good work', but little direct evidence on intrinsic job quality in any detail. This essay reports research using data from the UK Skills and ... -
The Use and Value of Freelancers: The Perspective of Managers in Large Firms and SMEs
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)In this paper we provide an overview of the various means through which executives and entrepreneurs in Great Britain perceive freelancers as adding value to their businesses. To this end the paper reviews a number of ... -
Tracking UK Freelance Workforce Trends 1992-2014
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)Using data from the UK Labour Force Survey, the paper describes the major trends in freelance workforce numbers during the past 20 years. Operationalising a definition of freelancing in terms of Labour Force Survey categories, ... -
Introduction: A Freelancing and Self-Employment Research Agenda
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2015)This paper provides an overview of the content of the next two issues of this journal. The need for the research has been driven by the transformation of freelancing over the last two decades from a predominantly precariat ... -
SME Financing in Japan during the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from Firm Surveys
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)Employing data from a unique firm survey, this article examines small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing in Japan during the global financial crisis. The major findings of the article are two-fold. First, in terms ... -
The Role of Credit Access in Firm Sustainability: A Comparison of the 1998 and 2003 Surveys of Small Business Finances
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)The current paper uses two nationally representative cross-sections of US businesses from 1998 and 2003 to examine 5-year survival rates of small businesses. Despite the fact that the 2003 cohort experienced the Great ... -
(Special Issue Introductory Article) - International Perspectives on small Businesses, Bank Credit and the Global Financial Crisis
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)INTRODUCTION: Small businesses with growth potential are an important source of new jobs and economic growth (Wong et al, 2005; Shane, 2009). Yet, there are longstanding concerns that information asymmetries in financial ... -
The Impact of the Late 2000's Financial Crisis on the Supply of Bank Credit to Small Businesses: Evidence from the UK
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)The paper presents evidence from a large UK data-set regarding the impact of the financial crisis in 2007-9 on the availability and terms of bank credit provided to SMEs. Holding credit risk constant, businesses applying ... -
Entrepreneurial Networks: Exploring the Role of Social Capital
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)Purpose Start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face a liability of smallness (Bruderl and Schussler, 1990) associated with a limited resource endowment. Entrepreneurs often turn to their social networks ... -
The Effect of Training in Starting a Business on Subsequent Entrepreneurial Awareness, Attitudes, Intention and Activity: A 37 Nation Study
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)While entrepreneurship training is widely supported as a policy instrument, the impact of entrepreneurship training remains understudied. In this 37 nation study, we report the results of a novel multivariate analysis of ... -
So Much More Than Money: How Pursuit of Happiness and Blessings of Liberty Enable and Connect Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)The article contends that entrepreneurship and philanthropy have much more in common than money. Entrepreneurship and certain approaches to philanthropy share perspectives on opportunity recognition and risk taking. More ... -
Cultures of Female Entrepreneurship
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)The present research shows how entrepreneurial culture contributes to the widely noted difference in entrepreneurial propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household ... -
Bankruptcy Settlement: Causes and Consequences for Entrepreneurs According to Liquidators
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2014)This study addresses entrepreneurial bankruptcy settlement from an attitudinal perspective by exploring how liquidators perceive their interactions with entrepreneurs during bankruptcy settlement. We explore what personal ... -
Determinants of Entrepreneurship: Is it all about The Individual or the Region?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2013)It is well established at whatever spatial level studied that economic actors exhibit a strong tendency to cluster. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of ...
