Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 1926
研究了后苏联国家高质量和低质量创业的持续性机制，发现1926年低质量个体户角色模型和区域特征（如工业化不足、人口密度低）导致了低质量创业的持续存在。
This study explores the persistence mechanism of both high- and low-quality entrepreneurship in post-Soviet countries, encompassing entrepreneurial culture and historical regional characteristics. While spatial econometrics revealed persistence patterns for both entrepreneurship modes, the pioneering finding concerns the persistence of low-quality entrepreneurship, driven by a scarcity of high-quality role models in 1926. Instead, low-quality role models of sole proprietorships, mainly in the craft, transport, trade and credit sectors, shaped today’s low-quality entrepreneurs, alongside ‘sticky’ regional characteristics such as under-industrialisation and low population density. The study provides important insights into the formation of entrepreneurship in transition economies and offers guidance for policy.