A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship

Sameeksha Desai () and Zoltan Acs

No 2007-085, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete, focusing largely on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship. However, destructive entrepreneurship plays an important role in many, if not most, economies. This paper addresses the conceptual gap in the allocation of entrepreneurship by proposing a theory of destructive entrepreneurship.

Keywords: destructive entrepreneurship; allocation of entrepreneurship; rent-seeking; rent-destroying; incentives; institutions; property rights; contractual enforcement; conflict; social capital; trust; ethnic capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O17 O20 P00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-11-12
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