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“Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken”: entrepreneurship and happiness

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José; Cristi, Oscar - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 523-540

Do the presence and nature of entrepreneurship impact on national happiness, and are nations with happy citizens better … for entrepreneurs to start new businesses? To provide tentative answers we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and … subjective well-being and use various data sources to uncover the first evidence of the relationship between entrepreneurship and …

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Entrepreneurial opportunities in peripheral versus core regions in Chile

Amorós, José; Felzensztein, Christian; Gimmon, Eli - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 1, pp. 119-139

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in many countries. This research … Entrepreneurship Monitor’s methodologies, the National Experts Survey, to a sample of 695 key informants in Chile at eight regions of … core regions. The main results indicate that peripherally located entrepreneurship experts perceive their regions as in a …

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Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences

Kautonen, Teemu; Down, Simon; Minniti, Maria - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 579-594

Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives … and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level …

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"I Think I Can, I Think I Can": Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Many firms fail shortly after inception. Yet individuals continue starting businesses. Prewar economists such as Keynes invoked animal spirits and stressed psychological factors in their explanations of economic behavior. Using a large sample obtained from surveys conducted in 18 countries, we...

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Entrepreneurial Overconfidence: Evidence from a C.A.R.T. Approach

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

We use a sample of 18 countries to study what variables have a significant impact on an individual's decision to start a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data. Our results support existing literature suggesting the existence of strong...

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Not for Lack of Trying: American Entrepreneurship in Black and White

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Using a sample obtained from a survey conducted in the United States during summer 2002, we study the variables related to observed differences in the rate of entrepreneurial involvement between black and white Americans. We find strong evidence that differences in subjective and often biased...

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Being in Someone Else’s Shoes: the Role of Gender in Nascent Entrepreneurship

Minniti, Maria; Nardone, Carlo - In: Small Business Economics 28 (2007) 2, pp. 223-238

and women. Specifically, it has been shown that women are much less likely to be involved in entrepreneurship than men …

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Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America

Acs, Zoltan; Amorós, José - In: Small Business Economics 31 (2008) 3, pp. 305-322

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Perceptual Variables and Nascent Entrepreneurship

Arenius, Pia; Minniti, Maria - In: Small Business Economics 24 (2005) 3, pp. 233-247

Using a large sample of individuals in 28 countries, we investigate what variables are significantly correlated with an individual’s decision to become an entrepreneur. Following existing literature in economics, we link such a decision to demographic and economic characteristics. In addition,...

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