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This study focuses on the external orientations of the second-generation migrant entrepreneurs by addressing in … particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic … strategies of second-generation Turkish entrepreneurs in the ICT and the FIRE (i.e. Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) sectors …
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Entrepreneurship is at the heart of Schumpeterian theory. Potential entrepreneurs donot only take risk by seeking for … importantcomponent of modern entrepreneurship. Spatial (re-)location of firms may also be acombination of economic motives and socio … behaviour of entrepreneurial migrants, governed by multiple economicand socio-cultural motives. This framework is empirically …
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We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …
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positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …
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We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
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Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known … ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at … determinants of these two types of selection: exit in real and in imagined markets. Entrepreneurs in imagined markets are more …
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Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …
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Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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