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Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research : An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction

Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); … - 2005

Future -- The Entrepreneurial Process -- Risk and Uncertainty -- Innovation and Technological Change -- Market Processes and … Behavior and Firm Organizing Processes -- Entrepreneurship, Business Culture and the Theory of the Firm -- Resources and … Business and Debt Finance -- The Social Context -- The Social Psychology of Entrepreneurial Behaviour -- Entrepreneurship as …

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The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Parker, Simon (contributor) - 2006

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Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research : An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction

Acs, Zoltán J. - 2010

Financing -- The Market Context -- Market Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies -- Entrepreneurship, Business Culture and the … -- Entrepreneurship as Social Construction: A Multilevel Evolutionary Approach -- The Global Context -- International Business … behavior, risk and opportunity recognition, equity financing, business culture and strategy, innovation, and the impact of …

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills...

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011

Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is …

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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints Under Labour Market Discrimination

Frijters, Paul - 2011

We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one;...

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Entrepreneurship : Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?

Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012

start their own business are also of above average optimism. Cross-sectional findings are therefore an amalgam of …

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Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...

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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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