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Enhancing product market access : minority entrepreneurship, status leveraging, and preferential procurement programs
Shelton, Lois M.; Minniti, Maria - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 50 (2018) 3, pp. 481-498
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983278
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The impact of education histories on the decision to become self-employed : a study of young, aspiring, minority business owners
Thomas, M. Kathleen - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 33 (2009) 4, pp. 455-466
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920191
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The impact of institutional sources of capital upon the minority-oriented venture capital industry
Bates, Timothy Mason; Bradford, William D. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 33 (2009) 4, pp. 485-496
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920196
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291817
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291827
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How much of a socialist legacy? The reemergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - 2012
The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291841
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A physician with a soul of a cook? Entrepreneurial personality across occupations
Sorgner, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the well-established psychological theory of vocational behavior, which emphasizes the crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291855
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The entrepreneurial culture: guiding principles of the self-employed
Noseleit, Florian - 2008
What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263877
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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266664
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Entrepreneurs' acceptance of formal institutions: a cross-country analysis
Freytag, Andreas; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266668