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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …

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A Golden Opportunity : The Gold Rush, Entrepreneurship and Culture

Stuetzer, Michael; Brodeur, Abel; Obschonka, Martin; … - 2022

We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher …

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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Inci, Eren - 2012

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...

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A context-choice model of niche entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik; Schenkenhofer, Julian - In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice : ET&P 45 (2021) 5, pp. 1276-1303

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Social capital building and new business formation : a case study in Silicon Valley

Audretsch, David B.; Aldridge, Thomas Taylor; Sanders, Mark - In: International small business journal : researching … 29 (2011) 2, pp. 152-169

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry : Business Takeover or New Venture Start

Parker, Simon C. - 2006

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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011

economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

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