Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Great Britain
This paper examines the evidence for the existence of a link between social capital and the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is proxied by self-employment and the influence of social capital is indicated both indirectly in aggregate-level data analysis and directly in micro-level data. The results suggest a modest, but heretofore neglected influence of social capital on entrepreneurship levels and suggest a reason why existing research on self-employment has tended to produce inconclusive and inconsistent results.
Keywords: ENTREPRENEUR; SELF-EMPLOYMENT; SOCIAL CAPITAL
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 May 2001
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