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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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The Institutions of Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Panel Data

Nyström, Kristina - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self … to increase entrepreneurship. <p …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Enterprise Performance in Transition Countries: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine

Bilsen, Valentijn; Maldegem, P Van - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 1999

This study compares the performance of foreign firms with domestic ones in Russia and Ukraine, using recent survey data of 450 enterprises. We find that foreign owned firms are less prone to inter-enterprise arrears and wage arrears, have a better export performance, and use more sophisticated...

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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …

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Financing Firm Start-up and Restructuring in Transition Countries: Evidence from Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia

Bilsen, Valentijn; Mitina, Elena - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 1999

Investigates how entrepreneurs in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine finance start-up and restructuring. Data from 600 de novo, privatised or state-owned firms shows the critical importance of the personal funds of the main owner(s), with a limited level of support being giving by the state.

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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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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Entrepreneurs' Intentions and Objectives

Quince, Thelma; Whittaker, Hugh - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

Entrepreneurship has become an important issue for policy. At one level, enterprise creation is recognised as important …

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'Meet the parents': the importance of 'pre-conception' conditions in facilitating high-technology spin-out companies

Quince, Thelma - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

Encouraging the spinning out of high tech companies from higher education institutes (HEIS) is now a major tenet of industrial policy in the UK and other European countries. New enterprise formation is seen as a vehicle for technology transfer and the commercialisation of research by...

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Creating New Local Industry Through Inter-Organizational Collaboration: A Japanese Case

Inaba, Yushi - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

This paper looks at entrepreneurs' attempts to create a new local industry for regional regeneration in Japan, collaborating together beyond their own organizations. The case study suggests that successful collaboration requires a certain type of inter-organizational coordination ('collaboration...

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