focus on the perception of entrepreneurs. This paper presents the results of a conjoint analysis and assessment of the … importance of select characteristics among entrepreneurs and the qualities of a team of founders comprising managers of VC firms … eight characteristics of the entrepreneurs related to their decisions and assessed the functional composition of the team of …

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …

Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than … entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … show that on average entrepreneurs are more optimistic than others in their dispositional optimism and attributional style …

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from … established African entrepreneurs. Whether the Chinese have a competitive edge over Africans because of distinctive sociocultural … exist trading diasporas which have a generally enhanced innovative capacity vis-àvis local entrepreneurs, regardless of the …

entrepreneurs in Enugu State, Nigeria between January and December 2012. 71 beneficiaries and 50 non beneficiaries of microfinance … institutions should be vigorously implemented so as to improve the performance of the client entrepreneurs. …

positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …

This study was carried out to empirically assess women entrepreneurs' access to credit in Kano metropolis. The study … was aimed at analyzing the maximum willingness to accept loans by women entrepreneurs and exploring the major problems … hindering women entrepreneurs from fundraising for businesses in Kano Metropolis. The study employed a multi-stage random …