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Contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship : frontiers in european entrepreneurship research

Xheneti, Mirela (ed.); Costa, Silvia (ed.); … - 2023

"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …

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Virtue as Competence in the Entrepreneurial Society

Karlson, Nils; Fergin, Elina - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …

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Lobbying on Entry

Perotti, Enrico C; Volpin, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequality and political accountability undermine entry and financial development. Incumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potential entrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...

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Trade and Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Workers

Oyama, Daisuke; Sato, Yasuhiro; Tabuchi, Takatoshi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

individuals on the formation of entrepreneurship in a two-country occupation choice model. We show that trade opening gives rise …

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Where Do Firms Incorporate?

Becht, Marco; Mayer, Colin; Wagner, Hannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Over the last few years, a series of rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has opened up the European Union to cross-border mobility in incorporation. In this paper we explore how deregulation and the costs of regulation have affected the location decisions of firms. Using a newly...

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Does Local Financial Development Matter?

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study the effects of differences in local financial development within an integrated financial market. To do so, we construct a new indicator of financial development by estimating a regional effect on the probability that, ceteris paribus, a household is shut off from the credit market. By...

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Entrepreneurship in Equilibrium

Gromb, Denis; Scharfstein, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper compares the financing of new ventures in start-ups (entrepreneurship) and in established firms … can arise (and sometimes coexist). In a low (high) entrepreneurship equilibrium, the market for failed entrepreneurs is … (entrepreneurship). We also characterize conditions under which there can be too little or too much entrepreneurial activity in …

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Exit of venture-backed firms often takes place through sales to large incumbent firms. We show that in such an environment, venture-backed firms have a stronger incentive to develop basic innovations into commercialized innovations than incumbent firms, due to strategic product market effects....

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Entrepreneurial Access and Absorption of Knowledge Spillovers: Strategic Board and Managerial Composition for Competitive Advantage

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The resource theory of the firm implies that knowledge is a key resource bestowing a competitive advantage for entrepreneurial firms. However, it remains rather unclear up to now, how new ventures and small business can access knowledge resources. The purpose of this paper is to suggest two...

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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Assessment

Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

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