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What works in supporting women-led businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...

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Beyond entrepreneurial intentions : values and motivations in entrepreneurship

Fayolle, Alain; Liñán, Francisco; Moriano, Juan A. - In: International entrepreneurship and management journal 10 (2014) 4, pp. 679-689

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Entrepreneurial Choices of Initial Human Capital Endowments and New Venture Success

Rocha, Vera - 2016

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...

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The 'Entrepreneurial Boss' Effect on Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices : A Role Model Story?

Rocha, Vera - 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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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem

Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014

This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...

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Peer networks and entrepreneurship : a Pan-African RCT

Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2019

Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …

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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2019

A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...

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Size matters : entrepreneurial entry and government

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … effects models. -- Entrepreneurship ; government ; market freedom ; corruption …

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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient … ; entrepreneurship …

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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 … property rights. -- entrepreneurship ; institutions ; corruption ; property rights ; government ; Global Entrepreneurship …

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