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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
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Stepping forward : personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707606
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Self-employment after socialism : intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
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Entrepreneurship : Theorie, Empirie, Politik
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021 - 3., überarbeitete Auflage
Deutschland -- Entrepreneurial Choice: Wer gründet ein Unternehmen? Merkmale von Gründern -- Entrepreneurship als Prozess …
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Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Growth : The Role of History and Culture
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
an original, historical take on entrepreneurship and regional development. It is a landmark study on Germany showing that … on Germany there are clear lessons for scholars and policy-makers in all high-income countries. David J Storey … business formation in Germany 1907, 1925 and Today -- The persistence of regional entrepreneurship -- The case of East Germany …
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Regional trajectories of entrepreneurship, knowledge, and growth : the role of history and culture
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917766