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Entrepreneurial Diversity and Economic Growth
Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Most studies investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth treat entrepreneurs as a … countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we investigate whether the impact on growth depends on socio …-demographic diversity in entrepreneurship (in terms of age, education and gender). We find that in less developed countries older and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731415
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Social Entrepreneurship and Performance: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk
Thurik, Roy; Hoogendoorn, Hoogendoorn, B.; van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2011
This study investigates if and in what way social entrepreneurs are hampered in turning their efforts into sustainable organizations. Using binary logit regressions and unique data containing approximately 26,000 individual-level data points for 36 countries, this study assesses the influences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731000
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On the Evolution of Product Portfolio Coherence of Cooperatives versus Corporations: An Agent-Based Analysis of the Single Origin Constraint
Hendrikse, Hendrikse, G.W.J.; Smit, Smit, R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Agent-based methodology is adopted to analyze the relationship between governance structure and the evolution of product portfolio. A corporation and a cooperative are distinguished by the single origin constraint. The single origin constraint entails that the product requiring the inputs of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731041
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One Analogy Can Hide Another: Physics and Biology in Alchian’s “Economic Natural Selection”
Levallois, Levallois, C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Today, Alchian's "Uncertainty, evolution and economic theory" (1950) is hailed by evolutionary economists as a most important piece, which resumed an evolutionary brand of theorizing in economics after the eclipse of the interwar period. On the other hand, Alchian's article is also cherished by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730866
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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731292
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Research in the Management of Learning, Change and Relations
Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
This note sketches opportunities for interdisciplinary research in management, and the distinctive contribution that might be made from a European perspective. It highlights a few major domains of research, conceptual issues, disciplines, and specific opportunities and needs in Europe. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731218
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Silicon Valley in the Polder? Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Virtuous Clusters and Vicious Firms in the Netherlands and Flanders
Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Bouwman, Bouwman, H.; Elfring, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Internet and ICT technology. A dynamic model previously developed for the analysis of ICT-entrepreneurship and networking will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731487
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On the Evolution of Trust, Distrust, and Formal Coordination and Control in Interorganizational Relationships: Towards an Integrative Framework
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Vlaar, Vlaar, P.W.L.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
of cooperation leave strong imprints on the development of these relationships in later stages of collaboration. This … evolution of interorganizational cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731363
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Designing and Evaluating Sustainable Logistics Networks
Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline Bloemhof; Quariguasi Frota … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
The objective in this paper is to shed light into the design of logistic networks balancing profit and the environment. More specifically we intend to i) determine the main factors influencing environmental performance and costs in logistic networks ii) present a comprehensive framework and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731180
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Unemployment Benefits Crowd Out Nascent Entrepreneurial Activity
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Minniti, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Analyzing a cross-country panel of 16 OECD countries from 2002 to 2005, we find that higher unemployment benefits crowd out nascent entrepreneurial activity. Our results hold regardless of entrepreneurial motivation (necessity or opportunity) and entrepreneurial type (imitative or innovative).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837508