Critical Review of Internationally Comparable Entrepreneurship Activity Measures

Katja  Crnogaj; Miroslav Rebernik

Katja Crnogaj
Miroslav Rebernik

Keywords: entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity, entrepreneurship measures, entrepreneurship policy

Abstract

Many studies that place entrepreneurship in the centre of their research, especi- ally those exploring the influence of entrepreneurship on economic growth and development, often do not provide definitions and entrepreneurship measures that would be comprehensive enough for an in-depth empirical verification. Because measuring and internationally comparing entrepreneurship and its results are chal- lenging tasks, the entrepreneurship measures must be carefully chosen and interpre- ted so that they can be appropriately considered when preparing policy-making recommendations. In this paper, we more precisely define the entrepreneurship me- asures most often used at the national level and identify their strengths and weak- nesses as well as possible intersections.

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Author Biographies

Katja Crnogaj

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: katja.crnogaj@uni-mb.si

Katja Crnogaj, Ph.D., is an assistant in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor. As a young researcher and member of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, she is currently involved in several national and international research projects. Furthermore, she is a member of the Global En- trepreneurship Monitor and Slovenian Entrepreneurship Observatory research group. She participates in the Entrepreneurship for Innovative Society research program and the research project titled “Surveying of global entrepreneurship and state of Slovenian entrepreneurship by means of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor”. In her dissertation, she studied the effect of specific institutional and in- dividual factors on entrepreneurial activity and their link to economic and social progress. Her main research interests also include entrepreneurship measures, international entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial networks, and other fields in en- trepreneurship and business economics.

Miroslav Rebernik

Business Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: rebernik@uni-mb.si

Miroslav Rebernik, Ph.D., is a professor of business economics and entreprene- urship at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor. He was a visiting professor at the Portland State University and a recipient of a Fulbright research fellowship at Babson College. He has participated in more than 80 national and international conferences. He participates in peer reviews and editorial boards for Business & Economics Review, Journal of Small Business Management, In- ternational Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business and the Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research. He is the head of the research program for the Entrepreneurship for Innovative Society, leads the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Slovenia research team, and is co-editor of Slovenian Entrepreneurship Observatory.

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