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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs through the Business Cycle

Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2011

We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...

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Does Social Capital Create Trust? Evidence from a Community of Entrepreneurs

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …

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Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?

Astebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007

Human capital investment theory suggests that entrepreneurs should be generalists, while those who work for others should be specialists; it also predicts higher incomes for entrepreneurs with generalist skills. An alternative view predicts that those with greater taste for variety are more...

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A consumption-based measure of the monetary rewards to entrepreneurship

Krichevskiy, Dmitriy - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2010

Recent findings by Hamilton (Journal of Political Economy, 2000) suggest that the self-employed do not receive a monetary premium for the risk and uncertainty associated with business ownership. In this paper, I show that that income underreporting by entrepreneurs can explain the lack of...

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Academic entrepreneurship and technological innovation : a business management perspective

Karwowski, Waldemar (contributor); … - 2013

India / Neeta Baporikar -- Introducing a science-to-business marketing unit to university knowledge and technology transfer … to academic entrepreneurship / Roman Batko -- Cultivating entrepreneurial thinking through a management of innovation and … technology course: evidence from the University of Nicosia / Despo Ktoridou -- Regional innovation system in Lower Silesia: key …

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Entrepreneurship and innovations in e-business : an integrative perspective

Zhao, Fang (contributor) - 2006

"The book presents a comprehensive introduction of the concepts and practices of e-entrepreneurship and e-innovation …1. Entrepreneurship and innovation in e-business : an integrative perspective / Fang Zhao -- 2. Exploring rhizomic … becomings in post dot-com crash networks : a Deleuzian approach to emergent knowledge dynamics / Alexandra Steinberg -- 3 …

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Information technology entrepreneurship and innovation

Zhao, Fang - 2008

understanding of knowledge dynamics of innovation in business networks / Alexandra Steinburg -- … : an Islamic perspective / Muhammad Mohtsham Saeed -- 16. Supporting innovation through knowledge management in the …"This book presents current studies on the nature, process and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation in the …

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Handbook of research on global competitive advantage through innovation and entrepreneurship

Lawton Smith, Helen (ed.); Ferreira, João J. M. (ed.); … - 2015

-- Knowledge, technology, and innovation -- Entrepreneurship and internationalization -- Entrepreneurial strategy and value …Global competitive advantage -- Regional innovation systems and competitiveness -- Competitiveness and clusters …

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellman, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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