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Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder: The Role of Gender

Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Grilo, Grilo, I.; van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

entrepreneurial ladder and the factors that influence their position on the ladder. We use data from the 2006 "Flash Eurobarometer … survey on Entrepreneurship" consisting of more than 10,000 observations for 25 member states of the European Union, Norway …

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Entrepreneurship, Organization Capital and the Evolution of the Firm

Oshima, Atsushi; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2008

We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...

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The Old-Boy Network and the Quality of Entrepreneurs

Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - CESifo - 2010

We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs’ types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...

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Determinants Of Entrepreneurship In Europe

Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Grilo, I. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

. Data of two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2003 and 2004) containing over 20,000 observations are used …This paper uses an Eclectic Framework explaining entrepreneurship incorporating different streams of literature and … spanning different disciplines. The Eclectic Framework integrates factors shaping the demand for entrepreneurship on the one …

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