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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...
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This study extends the occupational choice model to explore age effects for eight different types of boomer entrepreneurs. The empirical study relies on monthly Current Population Survey data across 11 years (2006-2016). Multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression models are estimated to...
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empirical-driven arguments. This study analyzes the entrepreneurship paradox — i.e., entrepreneurship is good for the economy … between entrepreneurship and economic performance) and the policy tension (i.e., the unclear role of entrepreneurship policy … on entrepreneurship outcomes).Design/methodology/approach: Building on a sample of 81 countries from Africa, America …
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employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees' future entrepreneurship choices, especially … bosses on female employees' transition into entrepreneurship. We show that the female boss effect is greater than other …
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inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship …
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inequality in the house hold. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship …
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Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …
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The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...
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inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033857