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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
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– such as fear of failure in starting a business venture, whether individuals expect that good opportunities are likely to … have a positive and significant impact on business creation, Natural Disasters have a positive and negative impact on … extreme events on perception variables such as Fear of Failure, Expected Business Opportunities, and Expected Level of …
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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...
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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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the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this study focuses on (800) students in the … discussion in the literature. Finally, we find a strong association between the perceived status of the entrepreneur and the … estimated likelihood and willingness to become an entrepreneur …
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Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper...
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The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an … successfully remain in business for at least five years. A possible reason might be that they underestimate the heavy workload …
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the digital economy from an entrepreneurial perspective? What is the impact of digitalization - and big data - on business …
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an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … whether one chooses to become an entrepreneur. We find that cognitive functions, mental health and self-confidence negatively …
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