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This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...
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We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...
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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 vast majority of the literature on ethnicity and entrepreneurship focuses on the construct of ethnic … entrepreneurship. However, very little is known about how ethnic heterogeneity affects entrepreneurship. This study attempts to fill … entrepreneurship. We argue that potential channels that can explain the negative effect of fractionalization on entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA …) of 2010 could reduce this barrier to entrepreneurship and thereby increase entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we …
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