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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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The "entrepreneurial boss" effect on employees' future entrepreneurship choices : a role model story?

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

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Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory : explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan

Williams, Colin C.; Shahid, Muhammad S. - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 28 (2016) 1/2, pp. 1-25

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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - 2015

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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Questioning dominant entrepreneurship assumptions : the case of female ethnic minority entrepreneurs

Verduijn, Karen; Essers, Caroline - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 25 (2013) 7/8, pp. 612-630

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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? : testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self … become self-employed and those ending up in paid employment. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employed ; Germany …