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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …

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Entrepreneurship

Lazear, Edward P. - 2003

most important determinant of entrepreneurship is having background in a large number of different roles. Further, income …

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Who are the microenterprise owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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What's the difference?! Gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business

Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010

, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …

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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...

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Becoming an Entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

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Entrepreneurial social identities and nascent entrepreneurial behaviour : mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy

Murad, Majid; Ashraf, Sheikh Farhan; Syed, Nausheen; … - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 10 (2022) 1, pp. 113-128

entrepreneurship by taking the entrepreneurial self-efficacy as a mediator and investigates the influence of social identity theory …

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Talented enough to be a business leader? : an alternative approach to entrepreneurs' traits

Zbierowski, Przemysław; Gojny-Zbierowska, Milena - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 10 (2022) 1, pp. 175-187

entrepreneurial actions and their outcomes. It adds to our understanding of specific entrepreneurship phenomena like entrepreneurial …

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Entrepreneurial marketing : between entrepreneurial personality traits and business performance

Sarwoko, Endi; Nurfarida, Iva Nurdiana - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 2, pp. 105-118

Objective: Practices of traditional marketing cannot be fully applied to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs owners have a responsibility to replace the practice with innovative behaviour such as entrepreneurial marketing (EM). This objective of this study is to examine the role of...

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