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Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure
Zunino, Diego - 2017
crowdfunding. Respondents evaluate a realistic investment opportunity in a between-subjects design, where we decompose the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947124
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A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data
Zhang, Junfu - 2007
Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776079
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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 …
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Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship : Business Takeover Versus New Venture Start-Up
Xi, Guoqian - 2016
entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990862
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111216
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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
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How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-Ups?
Xi, Guoqian - 2017
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the … groups, highlighting the distinction between the two forms of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942096
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten - 2018
as input factors, and (3) start-up success as measured by start-up survival, degree of innovativeness, and change in … household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915340
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Gender Differences in Business Performance : Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2021
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
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