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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
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The economic impact of social ties : evidence from German reunification
Burchardi, Konrad B.; Hassan, Tarek A. - 2011
to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall … within a given West German region invest in East Germany. As a result, West German regions which (for idiosyncratic reasons … capita in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 …
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Outsourcing und Insourcing in der Finanzwirtschaft
2014 - 4. Aufl.
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On the stability of preferences : repercussions of entrepreneurship on risk attitudes
Brachert, Mattias; Hyll, Walter - 2014
The majority of empirical studies make use of the assumption of stable preferences in searching for a relationship between risk attitude and the decision to become and stay an entrepreneur. Yet empirical evidence on this relationship is limited. In this paper, we show that entry into...
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Entry into entrepreneurship, endogenous adaption of risk attitudes and entrepreneurial survival
Brachert, Matthias; Hyll, Walter; Titze, Mirko - 2014
Empirical studies use the assumption of stability in individual risk attitudes when searching for a relationship between attitude to risk and the decision to become and survive as an entrepreneur. We show that risk attitudes do not remain stable but face endogenous adaption when starting a new...
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Digitalization Cases : How Organizations Rethink Their Business for the Digital Age
Urbach, Nils (ed.); Röglinger, Maximilian (ed.) - 2019
, results, and lessons learned are a great inspiration for managers, students, and academics. Anna Kopp, Head of IT Germany …
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Women's Entrepreneurship in Europe : Multidimensional Research and Case Study Insights
Birkner, Stephanie (ed.); Ettl, Kerstin (ed.);  … - 2018
Migrant Entrepreneurship in Germany - Determinants and Recent Developments -- 3. Business Transferability Chances: Does the … Entrepreneur who Struggled in the Mechanical Engineering Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Germany -- 10. The Female Hunting Instinct …: Entrepreneurial Life in Germany …
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Financing High-Tech Startups : Using Productive Signaling to Efficiently Overcome the Liability of Complexity
Tech, Robin P. G. - 2018
with investors and entrepreneurs in the US and Germany and an international expert panel. Lastly, it presents a framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396416
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Managing Sustainable Stakeholder Relationships : Corporate Approaches to Responsible Management
O'Riordan, Linda - 2017
As ‘disruption’ is currently becoming the new buzzword in boardrooms, this book advocates that the most striking opportunity for business today is making itself relevant to its stakeholders. By presenting a new route via innovative business models, a transformational corporate approach to...
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The Influence of Business Cultures in Europe : An Exploration of Central, Eastern, and Northern Economies
Crane, Robert A. (ed.) - 2018
and Northern Europe, and particularly Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia, this collection provides a broad understanding of … Management and Business Thinking; Ruth Alas and Tiit Elenurm -- 3. Management in Germany: The Dynamo of Europe; Arndt Sorge -- 4 …
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