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Destructive entrepreneurship in the small business sector: bankruptcy fraud in Sweden, 1830–2010
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Business Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0426-7936
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Business Studies.
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Economics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3747-9038
2020 (English)In: Small Business Economics, ISSN 0921-898X, E-ISSN 1573-0913, Vol. 54, p. 437-457Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Entrepreneurship will not always productive: Baumol (1990, 1993) distinguishes between productive, unproductive, and destructive entrepreneurial activities, and in the last two cases, new values are not created. Setting of from the notion of destructive entrepreneurship and the bankruptcy institute as framework for the empirical analysis, we use long aggregate series on bankruptcies and bankruptcy frauds in Sweden, 1830–2010. We operationalize destructive entrepreneurship with bankruptcy frauds. The bankruptcy institute is not a pure cleansing mechanism; assets can be redistributed by criminal procedure. Thus, a form of destructive entrepreneurship can be conducted within this system. We link bankruptcy frauds to the selection mechanism—the aggregate bankruptcy volume—over time. We cannot establish any direct linkages between the bankruptcy volume and institutional changes. However, and in line with research on bankruptcy diffusion and diffusion of economic crimes, we find that bankruptcy frauds have significant, positive impacts on the bankruptcy volume. Therefore, our results indicate that increases in bankruptcy frauds, destructive entrepreneurship, would affect the economic system. © 2018 The Author(s)

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Springer, 2020. Vol. 54, p. 437-457
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Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy fraud, Destructive entrepreneurship, Sweden
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Economics and Business
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34934DOI: 10.1007/s11187-018-0043-3ISI: 000518505800005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85045625168OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-34934DiVA, id: diva2:1203752
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Demography of Firms and Industries in Sweden over Two Centuries, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P12-1122:1Available from: 2018-05-04 Created: 2018-05-04 Last updated: 2022-07-14Bibliographically approved

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