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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past …. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about skill. We predict that investors will discount entrepreneurs that … of failure into luck and skill. Our results indicate that investors discount entrepreneurs who have experienced failure …
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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 on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence …
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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 … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …
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A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but …
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employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …
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Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …
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The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...
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