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“Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken”: entrepreneurship and happiness

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José; Cristi, Oscar - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 523-540

Do the presence and nature of entrepreneurship impact on national happiness, and are nations with happy citizens better … for entrepreneurs to start new businesses? To provide tentative answers we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and … subjective well-being and use various data sources to uncover the first evidence of the relationship between entrepreneurship and …

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Entrepreneurial opportunities in peripheral versus core regions in Chile

Amorós, José; Felzensztein, Christian; Gimmon, Eli - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 1, pp. 119-139

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in many countries. This research … Entrepreneurship Monitor’s methodologies, the National Experts Survey, to a sample of 695 key informants in Chile at eight regions of … core regions. The main results indicate that peripherally located entrepreneurship experts perceive their regions as in a …

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Candidate gene studies and the quest for the entrepreneurial gene

Loos, Matthijs; Koellinger, Philipp; Groenen, Patrick; … - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 3, pp. 269-275

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The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development

Zwan, Peter; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, A. - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 627-643

Gender differences at five levels of entrepreneurial engagement are explained using country effects while controlling for individual-level variables. We distinguish between individuals who have never considered starting up a business, those who are thinking about it, and nascent, young, and...

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Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences

Kautonen, Teemu; Down, Simon; Minniti, Maria - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 579-594

Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives … and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level …

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Genome-wide association studies in economics and entrepreneurship research: promises and limitations

Koellinger, Philipp; Loos, Matthijs; Groenen, Patrick; … - In: Small Business Economics 35 (2010) 1, pp. 1-18

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Being in Someone Else’s Shoes: the Role of Gender in Nascent Entrepreneurship

Minniti, Maria; Nardone, Carlo - In: Small Business Economics 28 (2007) 2, pp. 223-238

and women. Specifically, it has been shown that women are much less likely to be involved in entrepreneurship than men …

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Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America

Acs, Zoltan; Amorós, José - In: Small Business Economics 31 (2008) 3, pp. 305-322

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Perceptual Variables and Nascent Entrepreneurship

Arenius, Pia; Minniti, Maria - In: Small Business Economics 24 (2005) 3, pp. 233-247

Using a large sample of individuals in 28 countries, we investigate what variables are significantly correlated with an individual’s decision to become an entrepreneur. Following existing literature in economics, we link such a decision to demographic and economic characteristics. In addition,...

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