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Small-Scale Business Survival and Inheritance: Evidence from Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In this paper we investigate whether small-scale businesses face financial constraints that affect their survival. We develop a model of moral hazard in which financial constraints arise endogenously. The model predicts that higher private assets relax financial constraints and have a positive...

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Entrepreneurship, Windfall Gains and Financial Constraints: The Case of Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper we investigate the link between entrepreneurship and financial constraints. We develop a dynamic partial …

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Entrepreneurs' Gender and Financial Constraints: Evidence from International Data

Muravyev, Alexander; Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several countries of Western Europe as well as in the transition countries of Eastern Europe, our analysis...

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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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Entreprenörskap bland forskare – hur viktigt är det egentligen?

Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

Denna artikel sammanfattar forskning om olika typer av kommersialiseringsmiljöer med bas i akademiska teorier och empiriska studier från Sverige. Målsättningen är att bidra till kritisk reflektion kring kommersialiseringsmiljöer och de policyåtgärder som myndigheter, universitet och...

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