Research on Entrepreneurship

 

All published articles listed here but not downloadable are available from JSTOR or publisher web sites. If you do not have access to these articles through a subscription, I can email you a personal copy. Book chapters are only available in hard copy.

 

 

"Black Ties Only? Ethnic Business Networks, Intermediaries, and African-American Retail Entrepreneurship," in James E. Rauch and Alessandra Casella, eds., Networks and Markets, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.

  • A "popularized" version of this book chapter: "Empty Streets: How Building Networks Can Put More Black Retailers in City Neighborhoods," Brookings Review 15 (Winter 1997): 14-17.

"Network Intermediaries in International Trade" (with Joel Watson), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 13 (March 2004): 69-93.

"Clusters and Bridges in Networks of Entrepreneurs" (with Joel Watson), in James E. Rauch, ed., The Missing Links: Formation and Decay of Economic Networks, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.

"Employee Spinoffs and Other Entrants:  Stylized Facts from Brazil" (with Marc Muendler and Oana Tocoian), International Journal of Industrial Organization 30 (September 2012): 447-458.

"Mobilizing Social Capital Through Employee Spinoffs" (with Marc Muendler), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18459, October 2012.  Latest Version

"Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms," Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics 21 (March 2014): 4-17.

"Client-Based Entrepreneurship" (with Joel Watson), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 31 (March 2015): 30-60.

"The Impact of Entrepreneurial Risk Aversion on Wages in General Equilibrium" (with Ying Feng), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 20992, March 2015.

"Dynastic Entrepreneurship, Entry, and Non-Compete Enforcement," European Economic Review 86 (July 2016): 188-201.

"Do Employee Spinoffs Learn Markets from Their Parents? Evidence from International Trade" (with Marc Muendler), European Economic Review 105 (June 2018): 159-173.  For Online Supplement, click here

"You Can Take Them With You: Recruiting Coworkers to One's Own New Firm" (with Marc Muendler and Sergio Mikio Koyama), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 33230, December 2024.

"Which Individuals Create Jobs? Managerial Talent and Occupational Skills" (with Marc Muendler and Sergio Mikio Koyama), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 34158, August 2025.