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Critics claim that short-term profit orientation and high deal price strategies of private equity (PE) firms can negatively affect the ability of management buyouts to initiate and sustain entrepreneurial management. This study investigates this claim by comparing effects of majority PE backed...
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Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives … and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level …
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, entrepreneurship creates a network externality that promotes the creation of new markets, then each individual entrepreneurial action …
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Entrepreneurship is a human universal. All over the world, and throughout history, people have created businesses. Yet … men. Venture types and management styles vary across genders as well. Women entrepreneurship presents several distinctive … characteristics that differentiate it from men entrepreneurship. But variations exist also across women entrepreneurs in various …
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General agreement exists on Italy's strong entrepreneurial tradition. It is also customarily believed that the large majority of entrepreneurial firms are located in the Northern part of the country. Recent years however, have seen an increasing number of small ventures being initiated by...
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and women. Specifically, it has been shown that women are much less likely to be involved in entrepreneurship than men …
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This paper models the tradeoff between increased autonomy from self-employment and the generally higher income that traditional employment offers. While the demand for autonomy is a purely psychological construct, the economic tradeoffs involved in its achievement are eminently amenable to...
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Using a large sample of individuals in 28 countries, we investigate what variables are significantly correlated with an individual’s decision to become an entrepreneur. Following existing literature in economics, we link such a decision to demographic and economic characteristics. In addition,...
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