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Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory : explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan
Williams, Colin C.; Shahid, Muhammad S. - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 28 (2016) 1/2, pp. 1-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539273
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Evaluating entrepreneurs' motives for participating in the informal sector in Europe
Williams, Colin C. - In: Journal of developmental entrepreneurship : JDE ; a … 26 (2021) 1, pp. 2150002-1-2150002-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648809
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Beyond the marginalization thesis : an evaluation of the prevalence, character and motives of informal sector entrepreneurs in Kosovo
Gashi, Ardiana; Williams, Colin C. - In: Journal of developmental entrepreneurship : JDE ; a … 26 (2021) 1, pp. 2150003-1-2150003-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648822
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Contesting the underperformance thesis of women entrepreneurs : firm-level evidence from South Africa
Williams, Colin C.; Kedir, Abbi Mamo - In: International journal of management & enterprise … 17 (2018) 1, pp. 21-35
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879594
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326380
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2011
-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326409
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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach
Parker, Simon C. - 2005
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267672
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The dynamics of entrepreneurship: hysteresis, business cycles and government policy
Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - 2009
This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276150
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282246
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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282600