Vesna Mandakovic

• Universidad del Desarrollo

Purpose This study takes an “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective to study entrepreneurs defined as “others” on multiple categories: women entrepreneurs whose ventures are necessity-based, bootstrapped and located in economically impoverished areas (neighborhoods) in two Latin-American countries: Chile and Peru. Design/methodology/approac...

A common pattern observed in the psychological literature on migrants is homesickness, yet there is a lack of research examining if this phenomenon has any effect in the entrepreneurship sphere. This study begins to fill this gap with an inductive approach examining the Venezuelan migratory wave in Chile. Methodologically, we conduct an oral histor...

This paper develops and applies a new evaluative approach to local entrepreneurial ecosystems, as configural narratives. We examine how configurations of local entrepreneurial ecosystem attributes, as evaluated by local experts, support or hinder the emergence of new and innovative firms. Drawing on sociology of place, we present a novel configurat...

Purpose. Social entrepreneurs engage in action because they want to solve social problems. Consequently, it is expected to see more social entrepreneurship in contexts with the most severe social problems. This paper argues that this is an oversimplification of the problem- action nexus in social entrepreneurship and that action does not necessaril...

In this chapter, we explore how different R&D policies and related mechanisms are associated with high ambitions innovative entrepreneurship activities in the particular context of Latin America and the Caribbean. We use a longitudinal approach, with a multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression procedure. The data comes mainly from the Global Ent...

The entrepreneurship literature has exposed some of the most influential antecedents of innovative entrepreneurship. Prior research has also identified crucial features of migrant entrepreneurship. This article employs lessons from these two areas and draws on social cognitive theory to explore the main drivers of innovative ventures among migrants...

The academic debate in migrant entrepreneurship has mainly focused on movements from emerging economies into developed economies. Anecdotal evidence has suggested that the highest impact is generated by migrants in/from emerging economies. To extend this academic discussion in the Latin-American context, this study investigates why migrants are mor...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze how different experts in entrepreneurship perceive their surrounding environment and business opportunities. The authors suggest that people act the way they do not only because of different interpretations of the environment but also because of the relative importance they give to the context and themselves in th...

For decades, scholars have been concerned with the role of public policy in stimulating entrepreneurial activity. Aside from pro-entrepreneurship policy, governments can also erect barriers to startup activity. Researchers have concluded that the degree of corruption in a country can become a significant deterrent to entrepreneurship, while researc...

In this article, we explore the effectiveness of government intervention, R&D, and pro-innovation mechanisms in the likelihood of being an innovative entrepreneur with high ambitions of growing, in the particular context of Latin America and the Caribbean. We use a longitudinal approach, with a multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression procedure...

This paper studies the effects of state fragility and economic development on necessity and opportunity-based individual entrepreneurial efforts. We contribute to the literature on the contextual determinants of entrepreneurship by examining multilevel data on 956,925 individuals from 51 countries for the period of 2005–2013. We show that state fra...

Transnational Entrepreneurship (TE) is an increasingly important phenomenon, symptomatic for a globalised world with a large extent of migrants and interchanges between their countries of origin and residence. Our article deploys a unique data set which compares TE for two different national contexts and institutional settings: Chile and Germany. U...

Según datos del reporte GEM Mujer 2017, el porcentaje de emprendedoras con negocios en fases iniciales es de 19,6%, mientras que en 2005 eran 8%, es decir las mujeres que lideran emprendimientos en etapas iniciales en Chile se duplican en el transcurso de una década. En una senda similar, también se destaca lo que ha ocurrido en la Encuesta Naciona...

La edición 2017 del GEM Chile muestra una paulatina consolidación del emprendimiento como palanca de desarrollo económico y social en el país. El indicador central que calcula el GEM, el Total de Actividad Emprendedora en Etapas Iniciales (TEA), se ubicó en 23,8%. Luego de un proceso de aumento que se venía manifestando desde fines de la década ant...

La relación entre inmigración y emprendimiento ha sido estudiada principalmente en economías desarrolladas, sin embargo, como fenómeno es cada vez más común en los países emergentes como Chile. Este estudio analiza el vínculo entre las expectativas de crecimiento, la inmigración y el desarrollo de emprendimiento innovador. Usando una muestra de más...

The generally small size, slower growth, and lower profitability of women’s businesses is known as the “female underperformance” hypothesis; innovation is similarly gendered. This has implications for the development of effective, inclusive and accessible regional support for innovative activities and entrepreneurship that support the development o...

Improving participation of women innovators and techpreneurs in regional innovation ecosystems: The creation of “new spaces”

Esta edición de GEM Chile 2016 revela que en el país sigue prevaleciendo una visión favorable hacia el emprendimiento. De hecho, un 24,2% de la población adulta declara estar en la fase inicial de alguna actividad emprendedora y un 8% manifiesta encontrarse en alguna actividad ya establecida (más de 42 meses de vida). En lo que respecta a la activi...

In this chapter we analyse the case of Chile to describe the emergence of the Chilean entrepreneurial “ecosystem boom” under a female entrepreneurship perspective. We explore how institutional factors (programs or policies) differentially shape the individual decision of women (and men) to become entrepreneurs and to create new firms. Using individ...

Relevance Despite the growing importance of innovation, opportunity-driven entrepreneurship, regional identity, and women’s participation in entrepreneurial activity, an analysis of the literature on women entrepreneurship in the context of regional innovation ecosystems reveals persistent theoretical, methodological, and empirical challenges. Rese...

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle, the Greek philosopher who started Western scientific inquiry as a comprehensive and integrational system of knowledge, said that Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. In spite of few who could dispute Aristotle’s vision today, the challenge it presents for educators is immense....

Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian American economist who pioneered the study of entrepreneurship during the last century, in his paper “The Creative Response in Economic History” (1947), claimed that entrepreneurs change the world with innovations and technology. Those “wild spirits,” as he called them, are moved by an Unternehmergeist, or “entrepren...

In Chile, during the past two decades several reforms have been implemented with a goal of dismantling institutional barriers constraining equity funding along with the allocation of government investment in public financing programs. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze how public policy may influence the cultural legitimacy of entrepreneursh...

This paper analyzes the impact of stringent employment protection legislation (EPL) in firms' dynamic labor demand decision, exploiting different sources of heterogeneity across firms and sectors. The overall effect of EPL on the demand for labor has been a subject of debate because no clear answer has been found for total labor demand. In this pap...

Employment protection legislation is present worldwide, being more stringent mainly in developing countries. While these laws are positive for short-term job stability, they can hinder enterprises' ability to optimally adjust when facing negative shocks, which may harm their efficiency and long-term economic growth. This paper analyzes the impact o...