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"I Want to, But I Also Need to" : Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
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Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship : New Venture Start-Up Versus Business Takeover
Xi, Guoqian - 2017
entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. business takeover) of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our study … aims to close this gap by investigating the path to hybrid entrepreneurship. Using a large sample of French hybrid …, our study contributes to research on hybrid entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship entry modes. Moreover, it informs policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943712
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco - 2013
particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080145
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749897
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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and Their Descendants
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self …-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to … survival probability in entrepreneurship for Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants, which does not carry on to their U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317065
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Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms' Entry, Survival and Growth
Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder's...
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What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the 'Employee or Entrepreneur' Dichotomy
Nolan, Michael A.; Burke, Andrew E.; Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2021
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of … entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317438
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Entrepreneurial Persistence Beyond Survival : Measurement and Determinants
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
Entrepreneurial persistence is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's continued positive maintenance of entrepreneurial motivation and constantly-renewed active engagement in a new business venture despite counter forces or enticing alternatives. It is thus a crucial factor for entrepreneurs when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862479
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The Influence of Start-Up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Stier, Claudia - 2022
entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240540