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Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - 2014
the gender pay gap as well as entrepreneurship research on women's entrepreneurship to the novel context of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438931
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Leadership and the research productivity of university departments
Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014
Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236450
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Do more educated leaders raise citizens' education?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Pérez-Reynosa, Jessica H. - 2013
This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196470
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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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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions : an evaluation of the junior achievement student mini-company program
Oosterbeek, Hessel (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurship … insignificant and the effect on the intention to become an entrepreneur is even significantly negative. -- Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747661
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518066
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Relational goods, monitoring and non-pecuniary compensations in the nonprofit sector : the case of the Italian social services
Mosca, Michele (contributor); Musella, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...
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For benevolence and for self-interest : social and commercial entrepreneurial activity across nations
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - 2011
We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances … commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990 …) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
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Revenue drift, incentives, and effort allocation in social enterprises
Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2022
Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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