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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018669
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010544328
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Entrepreneurship and social and community care
Sundin, Elisabeth - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 5 (2011) April, pp. 212-222
findings is that conventional research, and consequently, also the public debate on entrepreneurship as well as on social and … community entrepreneurship, is guided by false notions rather than on empirical facts. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … starts by presenting the dominating references on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and community entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393181
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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422061
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963639
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"I Want to, But I also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
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/10008543460
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Understanding entrepreneurial behaviour in organized criminals
Smith, Robert - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 3 (2009) August, pp. 256-268
economic and capitalist criteria and entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ability play a significant part in creating criminal … wealth. Indeed, it is part of committed criminality. Whilst acknowledging the crime-entrepreneurship nexus the literature … qualitative one and relies on cross disciplinary readings of the literatures of crime and entrepreneurship which are developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479397
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The measurement of social capital in the entrepreneurial context
Ferri, Paul J.; Deakins, David; Whittam, Geoff - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 3 (2009) June, pp. 138-151
Purpose – Whilst all models of the entrepreneurial process identify the role of networking as important at both the start-up and developmental stage of a business latterly these models have expanded the notion of networking and embraced the concept of social capital. However, much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479398
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Credit delivery and sustainability of micro-credit schemes in Nigeria
Obamuyi, Tomola M. - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 3 (2009) April, pp. 71-83
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of access to credit through micro-credit institutions on entrepreneurial performance and assesses the loan performance of public credit schemes in Nigeria in order to determine the sustainability of such schemes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479403
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The impact of Greek Orthodoxy on entrepreneurship: a theoretical framework
Gotsis, George; Kortezi, Zoe - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 3 (2009) June, pp. 152-175
examines the basic concepts, tenets and principles – in particular, those being of interest to business and entrepreneurship … for the world of business and entrepreneurship. It further provides the theoretical foundations of future empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479404