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This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...
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This study attempts to investigate start-up and growth motives of entrepreneurs who own small and medium scale enterprises in Bradford, UK. In-depth interviews are conducted using "storytelling" approach and narrative analysis is used for data analysis. The Findings reveal that each entrepreneur...
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Purpose: This paper examines individuals who want to leave self-employment to work a ‘regular' job for someone else. We compare business owners and the independently self-employed who intend to leave self-employment (Leavers) with those who desire to remain self-employed (Stayers)....
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city, a group of entrepreneurs who have been conventionally depicted as largely driven by necessity into entrepreneurship … way of categorising types of entrepreneurship not only because motivations change over time but also because entrepreneurs … conventional either/or depiction of opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship and towards a richer, more nuanced and dynamic …
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A framework which allows for the joint testing of the adaptive and rational expectations hypotheses is presented. We assume joint normality of expectations, realizations and variables in the information set, allowing for parsimonious interpretation of the data; conditional first moments are...
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“Hybrid entrepreneurs” ― those who maintain a wage job while starting a new enterprise ― outnumber pure entrepreneurs in many countries. Yet, how hybrid entrepreneurs allocate their working hours between these two activities is not well understood. To better understand the relationship...
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