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Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions

Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012

This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...

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Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure

Zunino, Diego - 2017

Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about...

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A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data

Zhang, Junfu - 2007

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship …

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Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship : New Venture Start-Up Versus Business Takeover

Xi, Guoqian - 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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Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship : Business Takeover Versus New Venture Start-Up

Xi, Guoqian - 2016

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

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Signaling in the context of early-stage equity financing : review and directions

Svetek, Mojca - In: Venture capital : an international journal of … 24 (2022) 1, pp. 71-104

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The impact of concentration among venture capitalists : revisiting the determinants of venture capital

Félix, Elisabete Gomes Santana; Nunes, José Carlos; … - In: Venture capital : an international journal of … 25 (2023) 4, pp. 457-486

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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Inci, Eren - 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...

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Gender Differences in Business Performance : Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2021

Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...

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