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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822682
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"I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set … between motives, survival rates and entrepreneurial development. We find in particular that start-ups out of opportunity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497009