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High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies and Economic Growth

Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, Jolanda; Stel, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …

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Creating Strategic Advantage through EntrepreneurialGovernance in New Ventures

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik; Plummer, Lawrence A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governanceand corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managersstock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm.This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...

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Self-Employment and Unemployment in Spanish Regions in the Period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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The Effect of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time: The Case of Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

We investigate the effects of new business formation on employment change in German regions. A special focus is on the lag-structure of this effect and on differences between regions. The different phases of the effects of new business formation on regional development are relatively pronounced...

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when compared to other …

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The effect of business regulations on nascent and actual entrepreneurship

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a … sample of countries participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two …-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual entrepreneurship rate, while taking into account the interrelationship between …

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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance

Folkeringa, Mickey; Meijaard, Joris; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...

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From nascent to actual entrepreneurship: the effect of entry barriers

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownershiop across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attentiion of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cutlural...

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