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Understanding Psychological Competencies: Conceptualization and Measurement of Psychological Capital at Various Levels
Trost, Kari; Demir, Robert - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
This study addresses the longstanding concern of how to identify and evaluate individuals’ <p> psychological strengths. While much research has concerned itself with identifying <p> psychological weaknesses of organizational employees, an emergent stream of literature in the <p> human resource...</p></p></p>
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The Influence of Functional and Relational Proximities on Business Angel Investments
Herrmann, Johannes; Hjertström, Alexander; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2015
Business angels are a vital source of capital for innovative startup firms. However, even of those startups that have the potential to fulfill angel investors’ expected return on investment, most are rejected during the angel’s investment decision process. Information asymmetry, risk and...
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Virtue as Competence in the Entrepreneurial Society
Karlson, Nils; Fergin, Elina - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262763
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The Institutions of Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Panel Data
Nyström, Kristina - Ratioinstitutet - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self …-employment in a panel data setting covering 23 OECD countries and the time-period 1972-2002. The measure of economic freedom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771027
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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527516
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Entreprenörskap och egenfinansiering — om den privata förmögenhetsbildningens teoretiska och praktiska betydelse för entreprenörskapets omfattning
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
Egenfinansieringen har stor betydelse för om människor ska ta steget till att bli entreprenörer. Det har fastslagits i en rad empiriska studier och ett välkänt forskningsresultat. Det är emellertid inte lika klart hur den teoretiska förklaringen till detta empiriska samband ser ut. De...
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Israel Kirzner on Coordination and Discovery
Klein, Daniel B.; Briggeman, Jason - Ratioinstitutet - 2008
Israel Kirzner has been one of the leaders in fashioning an Austrian school of economics. In his rendering of the Austrian school, one finds a marriage between Friedrich Hayek’s discourse with Ludwig von Mises’s deductive, praxeological image of science — a marriage that seems to us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190448
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Property Rights and Economic Growth
Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003
My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419171
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Competence in Health Care - An Industrial Systems Analysis Using Competence Bloc Theory to Compare European and US Health Care
Eliasson, Gunnar; Eliasson, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
), discouraging innovative product competition and entrepreneurship. The larger part of cost escalation in US health care can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642395
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Entreprenörskap, industriell dynamik och ekonomisk tillväxt
Carlsson, Bo - Ratioinstitutet - 2002
Huvudtesen i denna studie är att innovationer driver den ekonomiska utvecklingen, att innovationer skapas i teknologiska system och omvandlas till ekonomisk verksamhet i kompetensblock, och att industriell dynamik uppstår i konfrontationen mellan utbudssidan (teknologiska system) och...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642431