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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs

Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...

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A Golden Opportunity : The Gold Rush, Entrepreneurship and Culture

Stuetzer, Michael; Brodeur, Abel; Obschonka, Martin; … - 2022

We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher …

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The growth of entrepreneurial human capital: origins and development of skill variety

Krieger, Alexander; Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; … - In: Small Business Economics 59 (2021) 2, pp. 645-664

Given that recent research on entrepreneurial behavior and success has established skill variety as a central human capital factor, researchers, educators, and policymakers have turned their interest to a deeper understanding of the formation of skill variety. Based on human capital theory and...

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Do balanced skills help nascent entrepreneurs to make progress in the venture creation process?

Stuetzer, Michael; Goethner, Maximilian; Cantner, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We analyze longitudinal data on innovative start-up projects and apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate the effect of nascent entrepreneurs’ balanced skills on their progress in the venture creation process. Our results suggest that those nascent entrepreneurs who exhibit a...

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Where do entrepreneurial skills come from?

Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Davidsson, Per; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Applying Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory we investigate the formation of entrepreneurial skills in two datasets on innovative new firms. Our results suggest that traditional human capital indicators individually have little or no influence on entrepreneurial skills. However, consistent with...

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the developing individual: Early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence and venture creation success during the career

Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

revealed that early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence positively predicted habitual entrepreneurship (multiple … results fromprospective longitudinal studies on early precursors of entrepreneurship, our findings underscore the long …

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Regional characteristics, opportunity perception and entrepreneurial activities

Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Brixy, Udo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper seeks to better understand the link between regional characteristics and individual entrepreneurship. We …

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Entrepreneurship, economic growth, and innovation : are feedback effects at work?

Galindo Martín, Miguel Angel; Méndez Picazo, María Teresa - In: Journal of business research : JBR 67 (2014) 5, pp. 825-829

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Innovation, internationalization and business-growth expectations among entrepreneurs in the services sector

Castaño Martínez, María Soledad; Méndez Picazo, … - In: Journal of business research : JBR 69 (2016) 5, pp. 1690-1695

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The effect of social, cultural, and economic factors on entrepreneurship

Castaño Martínez, María Soledad; Méndez Picazo, … - In: Journal of business research : JBR 68 (2015) 7, pp. 1496-1500

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