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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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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2012

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …

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Can interactive online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? : experimental evidence from Rwanda

Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José A.; … - 2022

We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda …

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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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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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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed … is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members. -- entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; skill …

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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development Over Time

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …

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The Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-Textual Information for Startup Performance Prediction

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2020

Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of Danish firms and their addresses as well as their business purpose statements (BPSs)...

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry : Business Takeover or New Venture Start

Parker, Simon C. - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2019

We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze which of their personal-specific and employer-specific characteristics determine their choice of subsequently founding a startup. Our data set is unusually rich and combines the...

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