Realizing expectations? High-growth expectations and realized high-impact entrepreneurship across countries: construct measurement matters

Kleinhempel, Johannes and Estrin, Saul ORCID: 0000-0002-3447-8593 (2024) Realizing expectations? High-growth expectations and realized high-impact entrepreneurship across countries: construct measurement matters. Small Business Economics. ISSN 1573-0913 (In Press)

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Abstract

Comparative international entrepreneurship research has often used measures of high-growth expectations entrepreneurship to proxy for the construct of high-impact entrepreneurship. We revisit this practice by assessing the cross-country association between high-growth expectations and realized high-impact entrepreneurship to speak to construct measurement fit. We find that expectations are not a good proxy for realizations; they are associated with different determinants and outcomes, respectively. We go on to introduce the idea of entrepreneurial projection bias to gauge the misfit between expectations and realizations. Conditioning on entrepreneurial projection bias partially restores the association between realized high-impact entrepreneurship and its determinants (or outcomes) when realizations are proxied using expectations. Furthermore, we show that opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship also does not proxy well for high-impact entrepreneurship. Our analysis brings into question current survey-based approaches to measuring high-impact entrepreneurship and existing rankings of countries’ entrepreneurial performance, with important implications for entrepreneurship theory and policy.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
JEL classification:	M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M1 - Business Administration > M13 - Entrepreneurship O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2024 10:39
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2024 23:14
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122409

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