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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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Self-Employment Dynamics across the Business Cycle: Migrants versus Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …

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Israel Kirzner on Coordination and Discovery

Klein, Daniel B.; Briggeman, Jason - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

Israel Kirzner has been one of the leaders in fashioning an Austrian school of economics. In his rendering of the Austrian school, one finds a marriage between Friedrich Hayek’s discourse with Ludwig von Mises’s deductive, praxeological image of science — a marriage that seems to us...

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Entreprenörskap, industriell dynamik och ekonomisk tillväxt

Carlsson, Bo - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

Huvudtesen i denna studie är att innovationer driver den ekonomiska utvecklingen, att innovationer skapas i teknologiska system och omvandlas till ekonomisk verksamhet i kompetensblock, och att industriell dynamik uppstår i konfrontationen mellan utbudssidan (teknologiska system) och...

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How Culture Molds the Effects of Self Efficacy and Fear of Failure on Entrepreneurship

Wennberg, Karl; Pathak, Saurav; Autio, Erkko - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior … entrepreneurship. …

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Endogenous growth through knowledge spillovers in entrepreneurship: An empirical test

Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl; Hellerstedt, Karin - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

analysis: First, do industries with a greater need for new technology-based entrepreneurship grow disproportionately faster …

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Untangling the relationships among growth, profitability and survival in new firms

Delmar, Frédéric; McKelvie, Alexander; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

The performance of new firms is important for economic development but research has produced limited knowledge about the key relationships among growth, profitability, and survival for new firms. Based on evolutionary theory, we develop a model about how new firms resolve uncertainty about their...

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Consequences of Cultural Practices for Entrepreneurial Behaviors

Autio, Erkko; Pathak, Saurav; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

Although national culture is an important regulator of entrepreneurship, there is a dearth of studies that (i) explore …-entry growth aspirations. We combined Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effec …-level techniques in analyzing the effect of culture on entrepreneurship. …

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Pragmatic entrepreneurs and institutionalized scholars? - On the path-dependent nature of entrepreneurship scholarship

Wennberg, Karl; Berglund, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

Research surveys of the field of entrepreneurship suggest that the maturation and institutionalization of … entrepreneurship as a research field brings about both new opportunities and constraints from established thoughts and practices. In … research in entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly institutionalized with regard to different issues: successively …

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