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A golden opportunity: the gold rush, entrepreneurship and culture
Stützer, Michael; Brodeur, Abel; Obschonka, Martin; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705583
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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.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522199
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084015
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111216
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608376
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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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Entrepreneurship and the creation of small firms : empirical studies of new ventures
Holmquist, Carin (contributor); Wiklund, Johan (contributor) - 2010
This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation. Using a variety of data sources, methods and theories, the authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context for this research is Sweden- a small open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851775
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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012
redistributive gains in the form of better loan terms as network members. -- entrepreneurship ; financiers ; networks ; start …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530313
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Crowdfunding, cascades and informed investors
Parker, Simon C. - 2014
Do higher proportions of (a) informed investors and (b) high-quality projects increase the number of good projects that are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: "not necessarily".
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