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This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey

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The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

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Entrepreneurship in the informal sector : an institutional perspective

Williams, Colin C. - 2018

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The habitual entrepreneur

Westhead, Paul; Wright, Mike - 2017

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