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Entrepreneurship, economic growth and policy in emerging economies
Thurik, A. Roy - 2009
Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276873
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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
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282614
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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US immigration policy at a crossroads
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291373
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Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2019
people who joined the former ruling party tended have fewer of the traits associated with entrepreneurship such as motivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118712
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - 2006
across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318828
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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?
Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2006
individuals have the lowest probability of needing to search for a business opportunity outside their family. A sample of data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325359
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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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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team's performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377189