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Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur

Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We model the emergence of organization forms in a game between prospective entrepreneurs. Complementary roles arise endogenously in a way that admits a stable assignment of workers to firms. This contrasts with existing work on job matching, where stability typically requires workers to be...

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Is More Entrepreneurship better?

Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...

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Institutions and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: A Comparative Perspective

Estrin, Saul; Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …’s institutional environment is important to explain its relatively low levels of entrepreneurship development, where the latter is …

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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …

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Internet Entrepreneurship: Networks and Performance of Internet Ventures In China

BATJARGAL, BAT - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

This article examines the contingent value of entrepreneurs' networks to survival likelihood of Internet ventures, and the dynamics of entrepreneurs' networks over time. The empirical data are composed of the longitudinal surveys of 94 Internet ventures in Beijing, China. The study found the...

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