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This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …
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likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …
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What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in the special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the linkage between personality, socio-economic factors...
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behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the … entrepreneurial development. Interestingly, entrepreneurs are more trustful than employees, but much less trustful than managers …
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disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts - on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues … entrepreneurs and their perceptions. Using individual-level data from 43 countries from the period 2002 to 2005, we find that … of entrepreneurial activity in specific circumstances. There is hence scope for entrepreneurs, and policies supporting …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...
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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large "ab-in-the-field" experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers - a suitable comparison group - and employees …
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