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Academic research is vital for innovation and industrial growth. However, a potential burden of processing ever more knowledge could be affecting research output and researchers’ careers. We look at a dataset of researchers who have published in journals in the field of economics during a period of 45 years. For a subset of these researchers, we amass data from journals listed in the EconLit database, supplemented with years of birth from public sources. Our results show an increase in the age of researchers at their first publication, in the number of articles referenced in debut articles, and in the number of co-authors. Simultaneously, we observe a decline in the probability of researchers changing research fields. Our findings extend earlier findings on patents and hint at a burden of knowledge pervading different areas of human progress. Moreover, our results indicate that researchers develop strategies of specialisation to deal with this challenge.
This article adopts a qualitative comparative causal mapping approach to extend knowledge of the interrelated barriers to public entrepreneurship and the outcomes of such entrepreneurship. The results highlight marked differences between the sales segment and the distribution grid segment of German public enterprises that should prompt a refined perspective on public entrepreneurship. Notably, besides intra-organizational barriers and those interfering from the external environment, results also show that a public enterprise’s supervisory board can hinder its progress. This study thus contributes to recent discussion on governance and entrepreneurship by revealing a feature that could distinguish public from private enterprises.