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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071742
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The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Foundersin Venture Capital Acquisition:Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Zhang, Junfu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have moreskills and social … connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connectionscould give experienced founders some advantage in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862321
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants : A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074200
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The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Zhang, Junfu - 2007
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social … connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the … experienced founders' access to venture capital. Compared to novice entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with venture-backed founding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776134
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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - 2010
and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152609
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128222
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the … entrepreneurial development. Interestingly, entrepreneurs are more trustful than employees, but much less trustful than managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134986
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276
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Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions
Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098820