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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues

Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession … literatures on entrepreneurship, family firms, and governance in private firms. The paper explores theoretical, conceptual, and … methodological ways of integrating these findings into the research on entrepreneurship and family business. …

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"I Think I Can, I Think I Can": Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Many firms fail shortly after inception. Yet individuals continue starting businesses. Prewar economists such as Keynes invoked animal spirits and stressed psychological factors in their explanations of economic behavior. Using a large sample obtained from surveys conducted in 18 countries, we...

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Entrepreneurial Overconfidence: Evidence from a C.A.R.T. Approach

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

We use a sample of 18 countries to study what variables have a significant impact on an individual's decision to start a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data. Our results support existing literature suggesting the existence of strong...

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Not for Lack of Trying: American Entrepreneurship in Black and White

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Using a sample obtained from a survey conducted in the United States during summer 2002, we study the variables related to observed differences in the rate of entrepreneurial involvement between black and white Americans. We find strong evidence that differences in subjective and often biased...

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