I am also interested to do some work in exactly the same area. Would be happy to stay connected on this topic.
Carroll and Mosakowski (1987), The Career Dynamics of Self-Employment, Administrative Science Quarterly . In this paper there is an empirical test of the weberian protestant ethic argument. They find that protestants are significantly more likely to become entrepreneurs than members of other christian faith, however there are also paper that are not able to find a significant relation (e.g. Pickles A. R., O'Farrell, P. N. (1987), “An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Behaviour from Male Work Histories”, Regional Studies,21(5): 425 – 444.)
Hi!
Jan Inge Jenssen has written about business and church entrepreneurs in his PhD-Thesis from the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway.
JENSSEN, J. I. (1999) Entrepreneurial Networks. A Study of the Impact of Network and Resource Access on the Start-up of New Organizations. Ph.D. thesis, Norges Handelshøyskole, Bergen, Norway.
Good luck!
Jon Gunnar
I am interested din the topic as well - have recently been involved in starting up a master education in "diakonia and social innovation"
I often refer my student to the work of Marx Weber, "The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism". This work gives a solid foundation to the understanding of church's involvement in entrepreneurial world.
Indirectly related: there is the famous book:
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle is a 2009 book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer about the economy of Israel. It examines how Israel, a 60-year-old nation with a population of 7.1 million, was able to reach such economic growth that "at the start of 2009, some 63 Israeli companies were listed on the NASDAQ, more than those of any other foreign country."[1]
In 2010, Start-up Nation was ranked fifth on the business bestseller list of The New York Times.[2] It also reached The Wall Street Journal bestseller list.[3]
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