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Risk attitudes and profits among small enterprises in Nigeria

Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - 2010

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...

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The German Mittelstand: antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model?

Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike - 2019

in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … is the antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model. We show that Mittelstand is more than a small and medium … the Mittelstand is an excellent example of everyday entrepreneurship and a vibrant segment of economy which is also …

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Women's entrepreneurship in Pomerania in light of available research

Wasilczuk, Julita E. - 2017

Background. Despite the fact that research on women's entrepreneurship has been conducted for many years, still many … present text. Methods. The article reports the state of art in the women entrepreneurship research as well as the research …

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SMEs' responses to potentially disruptive innovations : does strategic entrepreneurship provide an explanation?

Kay, Rosemarie; Nielen, Sebastian; Schröder, Christian - 2018

course of increasing digitization. Drawing on the strategic entrepreneurship approach we argue that SMEs showing strategic …

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Business survival and success of young small business owners

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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Determinants of hidden champions : evidence from Germany

Schlepphorst, Susanne; Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; Holz, … - 2016

. Based on an econometric estimation model with quantitative data from 60 hidden champions and 346 non-hidden champions, we …

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Im Auge des Betrachters? : warum wir zwischen KMU und Mittelstand unterscheiden müssen

Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike; Audretsch, David B. - 2021

companies has however relied on data for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), taking measurable proxies (such as the total … entrepreneurship literature by challenging this false equation of Mittelstand and SMEs. We investigate different approaches to analyze …

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Business survival and success of young small business owners : an empirical analysis

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance

Praag, Mirjam van; Wit, Gerrit de; Bosma, Niels - 2004

by lack of data. The key contribution of this article is that the authors are able—due to their comprehensive data set …

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Why less? : the gendered aspects of small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) ownership under economic transition

Aidis, Ruta - 2002

This paper explores the gendered influence on SME development under economic transition in Lithuania. Previous studies have shown that male and female business owners are more different than similar in terms of personal and business characteristics (Brush 1992). An analysis of 332 SME owners in...

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