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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship : Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment
Rostam‐Afschar, Davud - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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New Business Formation and Regional Development : A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence
Fritsch, Michael - 2011
type of entry and by industry, as well as differences in the effects that have been found for different types of regions …
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Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups
Fritsch, Michael - 2011
they impact more on firms and employment in other regions than do start-ups in non-innovative manufacturing. Finally, we …
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Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Rodriguez, Daniel; … - 2023
Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the...
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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship : The Role of Extreme Events
Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - 2012
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events - natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts - on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues - such as fear of failure in starting a business venture,...
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'I Want to, But I Also Need to' - Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144636
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184449
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity : It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
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Self-Employment and Economic Performance : A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach for European Regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
-employment on economic development is heterogeneous across European NUTS-2 regions. We find that regions having a significant … than regions with a significant negative effect. The concept of equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship is applied in an … necessity than out of opportunity. We find that in regions where the self-employment rate is above the equilibrium rate, self …
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