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Intrapreneurship: productive, unproductive, and destructive

Elert, Niklas; Stenkula, Mikael - 2020

Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation …

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The importance of tacit knowledge : dynamic inventor activity in the commercialization phase

Maurseth, Per Botolf; Svensson, Roger - 2020

possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … (1995) and model firm-inventor cooperation in the commercialization of a given invention. Tacit knowledge warrants inventor … first phase that matters for profitability. Thus, our interpretation is that tacit knowledge and close cooperation between …

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Hybrid entrepreneurship

Folta, Timothy B.; Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl - 2010

over eight years, we test the model on a population of Swedish wage earners in the knowledge-intensive sector. -- Hybrid …

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Does college education reduce small business failure?

Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014

We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we find no effect of...

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Jobs incorporated : incorporation status and job creation

Åstebro, Thomas; Tåg, Joacim - 2015

Recent research has shown that entrepreneurs who start incorporated firms are fundamentally different from entrepreneurs who start sole proprietorships. This difference suggests that incorporation status may distinguish the self-employed with no ambition to hire from entrepreneurs who plan to...

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Compulsory education and jack-of-all-trades entrepreneurs

Douhan, Robin - 2009

Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper follows Lazear's (2005) Jack-of-all-trades hypothesis according to which an individual with a more balanced set of abilities is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the...

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The effects of displacement on self-employment survival

Nykvist, Jenny (contributor) - 2008

A large literature has studied the effect of displacement on labor market outcomes in general, but none has evaluated how the displaced manage as self-employed. This paper studies how the survival of the business is affected by displacement in connection to entry, using a discrete-time...

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CEO health and corporate governance

Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2020

Boards hire and fire CEOs based on imperfect information. Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze the role of a potentially important unobserved attribute - CEO health - in corporate governance. We find CEOs are significantly healthier than the population and other highskill...

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Entrepreneurship, institutuions and economic dynamism : lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2012

deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the …, who are renowned specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These …, considerable differences remain. These constitute the basis for the concluding policy discussion. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation …

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