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Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy

Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - 2014

, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship. …

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Work experience from paid employment and the path to entrepreneurship : business takeover versus new venture start-up

Xi, Guoqian; Block, Jörn; Lasch, Frank C.; Robert, Frank; … - 2016

entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a …

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Mode of entry into hybrid entrepreneurship : new venture start-up versus business takeover

Xi, Guoqian; Block, Jörn; Lasch, Frank C.; Robert, Frank; … - 2017

entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. business takeover) of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our study … aims to close this gap by investigating the path to hybrid entrepreneurship. Using a large sample of French hybrid …, our study contributes to research on hybrid entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship entry modes. Moreover, it informs policy …

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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To be or not to be : the entrepreneur in neo-Schumpeterian growth theory

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Karlsson, Johan - 2022

Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990, identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning, we analyze how neo-Schumpeterian growth theorists relate to the entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter (1934) and the entrepreneurless framework of Schumpeter...

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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

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To be or not to be : the entrepreneur in neo-Schumpeterian growth theory

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Karlsson, Johan - In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice : ET&P 48 (2024) 1, pp. 104-140

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

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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 self …

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Firm Growth, Institutions and Structural Transformation

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This essay argues that the economic contribution of certain firms – be they small, young or rapidly growing – has to be understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms to free up resources that can be reallocated...

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Gazelles as Job Creators – A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms – so-called Gazelles – that...

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