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entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the well-established psychological theory of vocational behavior, which emphasizes the crucial …
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We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and … individuals of the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP). We find, indeed, some significant links between entrepreneurship and …
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The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. Socioeconomic heritage has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated upon...
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In this study we empirically investigate the contribution of personality traits to the gender gap in entrepreneurship … and nascent entrepreneurship among women and men. Moreover, women's considerably lower level of IEA contributes … significantly to the gender gap in entrepreneurship. The lower level of IEA is mainly due to women's lower levels of competitiveness …
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Self-efficacy, which can be defined as optimism about one's own ability to exercise required actions, has received a lot of attention in research on entrepreneurs' and managers' decision making. This attention led to the development of corresponding measurement instruments. However, there is no...
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entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual factors. Empirical results demonstrate that intentions to start a science-based new …
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economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …
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process, which we call individual entrepreneurial aptitude (IEA), is an important determinant of potential entrepreneurship …. IEA is also a strong and robust predictor of entrepreneurial intention and nascent entrepreneurship, where the …
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This article examines the construct of "Entrepreneurial Personality". In business practice there is growing mutual consent about the relevance of this construct but precise definitions in literature are still missing. This article first looks at some approaches which define the general construct...
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We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...
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