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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

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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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship : The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman - 2010

– 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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For Benevolence and for Self-Interest : Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations

Estrin, Saul - 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...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship : Blessing or Curse?

Danakol, Seçil - 2013

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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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021

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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'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing Across Countries

Naudé, Wim - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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Climate just entrepreneurship : feminist entrepreneurship for climate action

Stephenson, Elise; Furman, Sarah - In: International journal of gender and entrepreneurship 16 (2024) 1, pp. 89-109

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Size Matters : Entrepreneurial Entry and Government

Aidis, Ruta - 2010

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of …

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Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry

Estrin, Saul - 2010

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests a positive linear link between the size of...

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