Entrepreneurship and the Legal Form of the Business : The Role of Differences in Beliefs
Gutiérrez, Oscar (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Ortín Ángel, Pedro 1968
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Date: |
2016 |
Abstract: |
Entrepreneurship has been considered a way to implement interpersonal authority, i. e. , to convince other persons to use their resources in an alternative way to the optimal one in accordance with their beliefs. This paper presents a theoretical model that relates the above assumption with the following two questions: (i) how and why financial constraints can prevent the implementation of entrepreneurial projects; and (ii) how creditors' priorities provided by the different legal forms of the business can reduce the financial requirements for implementing the firm. The attractiveness of such an explanation lies in its capacity to justify a wide array of features of firms (entrepreneur origin, property rights, authority, financial constraints and creditor priorities) from a single basic assumption: agents have different beliefs about how production should be organized. |
Grants: |
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad ECO2013-48496-C4
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Rights: |
Tots els drets reservats. |
Language: |
Anglès |
Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
Subject: |
Emprenedoria ;
Entrepreneurship ;
Beliefs ;
Credit constraints ;
Creditors' priorities ;
Legal form |
Published in: |
Review of law and economics, Vol. 12, Num. 1 (2016) , p. 119-151, ISSN 1555-5879 |
Adreça original: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/rle/12/1/article-p119.xml?language=en
Adreça alternativa: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rle.2016.12.issue-1/rle-2014-0027/rle-2014-0027.xml?format=INT
DOI: 10.1515/rle-2014-0027
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