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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom

Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021

This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...

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Is religion associated with entrepreneurial activity?

Henley, Andrew - 2014

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

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Gender, risk and venture creation intentions

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew - 2012

to be associated with attitude to risk. -- entrepreneurship intentions ; attitude to risk ; gender difference …

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Why do individuals choose self-employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …

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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment

Henley, Andrew - 2009

for aspiring entrepreneurs. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; switching costs ; occupational choice …

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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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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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