Persistence and heterogeneity in entrepreneurship: An evolutionary game theoretic analysis

Graciela Kuechle ()

Journal of Business Venturing, 2011, vol. 26, issue 4, 458-471

Abstract: Studies show that countries exhibit a relatively stable level of entrepreneurial activity. To account for this fact, we adopt an evolutionary game theoretic approach. Based upon the analysis of games that capture essential features of the entrepreneurial phenomenon, we ascertain conditions under which evolutionary stable equilibria will be played by a population consisting of agents who engage in entrepreneurship and agents who do not. We show that entrepreneurship may persist even without assuming strategic complementarities or group selection. Lastly, we explain how information about equilibrium payoffs to self- and paid employment could help address the question of whether entrepreneurs differ from other economic agents.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Evolutionary; game; theory; Market-entry; games; Heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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