While social relationships play an important role for individuals to cope with missing market institutions, they also limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social distances when information asymmetries are present....

This dissertation is a compilation of papers on entrepreneurship which investigate related research questions. The unifying element of the different parts is the focus on two important concepts in entrepreneurship research, namely human capital and social capital. Briefly, the four main chapters...

Innovation gilt als der Schlüssel zu Wirtschaftswachstum und in der modernen Ökonomie nimmt der Entrepreneur dabei die herausragende Rolle ein. Mit der Lissabon-Agenda 2000 wurde für die Europäische Union das Ziel gesetzt, der weltweit wettbewerbsfähigste und dynamischste wissensbasierte...

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of those were searching for an opportunity to get self-employed. In this study the determinants of the lookout for selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for...