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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity:Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in bothpositively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variablesof social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurswho are permanently...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity intoentrepreneurial positions based on fixed individual …

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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen; Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionallycomprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existingstudies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self … that entrepreneurship tends to be profitable. It also raisesincome uncertainty, but the most successful quartile gains much …

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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

employer (‘nascent intrapreneurship’) or independently(‘nascent entrepreneurship’). Analysis of a nationally representative …

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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies:An Analysis of Firms’ External Financing Opportunities

Owolabi, Oluwarotimi; Pal, Sarmistha - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing externalfinance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutionsto minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data fromfifteen Central...

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship:The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...

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How Does Entry Regulation Infl uence Entry intoSelf-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra Emmi - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affectsentry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification asa natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences betweenregulated occupations and...

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions,and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that …

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs toCreate Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …

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