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Self-employment and Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive or Destructive?

In: Against Entrepreneurship

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  • Dieter Bögenhold

    (University of Klagenfurt)

Abstract

The term entrepreneurship is inconsistent and misleading since it covers a variety of different meanings and interpretations that a commonly shared and precise definition is not given. Entrepreneurship covers a specific behaviour and social psychological dispositions, specific segments of companies and also newly emerging firms as well as labour market sections such as self-employment groups, which all include too many different academic contents, domains, origins and destinations to get summarized in one term. Baumol (1990) coined the formulation that entrepreneurship has also unproductive or even destructive elements which serve as dark sides of a discussion that is generally led in almost optimistic and bright colours. The chapter contributes to this discussion offering reflections based upon diverse own studies.

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  • Dieter Bögenhold, 2020. "Self-employment and Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive or Destructive?," Springer Books, in: Anders Örtenblad (ed.), Against Entrepreneurship, edition 1, chapter 2, pages 19-35, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-47937-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47937-4_2
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